ORLANDO, Fla. - (Business Wire) Zeugma Systems a supplier of open telecommunications solutions for broadband service providers (BSPs), today announced that the company, along with industry experts from IDC, Roku, and Skitter.TV, will participate in a panel entitled “Delivering on the Quality Promise: Internet Video on Your 50-inch HDTV (And Loving It)” at TelcoTV in Orlando. The infinite expansion of internet video has left consumers expecting an internet video viewing experience that is indistinguishable from locally attached DVD players. With advances in video storefronts, content delivery, network technology, and digital media players, this quality hurdle is being rapidly surmounted. Matt Davis—Program Director, Consumer Multiplay Services, IDC
“As attested to by the success of the TelcoTV conference, telcos everywhere have been driving to include video as a core element of their multiplay offerings. Thus far most of these efforts have been focused on IPTV, a route fraught with cost and complexity. Now telcos can, possibly for the first time, contemplate relying on much simpler and less expensive over-the-top video as a component of their entertainment offerings.”
Bob Saunders—President, Skitter.TV
“The most successful entertainment service offerings will be those that combine linear TV with internet TV with user-generated content in a sit-back viewing experience on the TV as well as the computer and mobile devices. To provide such an offering with the quality of service consumers expect, telcos must focus on three aspects of service delivery: the quality of the video stream, the reliability of content delivery, and a set-top box that is easy to install and use.”
Kevin Walsh—vice president of marketing, Zeugma Systems
“Arguably, the last hurdle to widespread replacement of linear video with purely over-the-top video is quality. And while virtually all OTT video ecosystem players have made tremendous strides toward improving video quality, the broadband network remains to be addressed. Telcos are in the unique and advantageous position to address this final piece of the OTT video puzzle by generating new services geared toward enhancing the video experience.”
Jim Funk—Vice President of Business Development, Roku
“One of the most challenging aspects of delivering high-quality, long-form video content to consumer high-definition televisions is reliable and inexpensive in-home content conversion. With a wide variety of sources and formats, it becomes even more difficult to present the user with a cohesive and easy to understand interface. Telcos anticipating offering enhanced OTT video services need to pay especially close attention to the consumer end of the value chain.”
This full hour session, part of TelcoTV’s New Media track, will explore the ecosystem supporting the delivery of long-form (television episodes and feature-length movies) video over the internet directly to subscriber televisions. Moderated by IDC analyst Matt Davis, the panel participants will discuss both the challenges and recent technical advances which have occurred in this ecosystem. The result is a video experience much better suited for today’s consumer than older, rigid, linear video approaches employed by cable and satellite operators.
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| Title | | Delivering on the Quality Promise: Internet Video on Your 50-inch HDTV (And Loving It) |
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| Track | | New Media: Managing a Brave New World |
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| Speakers | | Matt Davis, Director, Consumer and SMB Multiplay Services, IDC; Kevin Walsh, vice president of marketing at Zeugma Systems; Jim Funk, vice president of business development at Roku; and Robert Saunders, founder and president at Skitter.TV |
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| Date / time | | Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 1:00pm — 2:00pm EST |
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| Location | | Orange County Convention Center, north concourse, level two, room N220 (A) |
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For more information on this panel, visit Zeugma’s events page at: http://www.zeugmasystems.com/newsampevents/inthenews/default.aspx?item=139&year=2009&month=9.
For more information about TelcoTV, visit the conference site at: http://www.lightreading.com/live/event_information.asp?event_id=29081.
About Zeugma Systems
Zeugma Systems delivers open telecommunications solutions that accelerate new service deployment for broadband service providers of all types. The Zeugma Services Node, a service delivery router, combines massive compute resources with next-generation capacity, service awareness, and subscriber management to yield reliable application integration, rapid turn-up of new services, and a quality video experience. For additional information, please visit www.zeugmasystems.com.
To view Zeugma’s blog, please visit http://zeugmablog.typepad.com/.
About Skitter.TV
Skitter.TV™ is video technology to encode, configure, deliver and monetize converged TV services. Skitter.TV provides a broadband TV experience on computers, televisions, mobile devices and gaming consoles. The end-to-end video platform includes head-end hardware and software for integrated Web video, linear cable network and broadcast TV, and video-on-demand content, delivered over IP via DSL, fiber optics or wireless networks. Skitter.TV’s end-user software and program guide offer consumers premium-quality high definition (HD) or standard definition (SD) multiscreen video service that combines live and on-demand content in a unified, remote-control-driven environment. For more information visit skitter.tv.
About Roku
Roku is a market leader in innovative applications for digital media, opening up a new world of entertainment to the TV. Through its work in both software and hardware, the company develops and sells consumer products that give customers the ability to take charge over their entertainment choices, combining high-value content and immediate access to that content at a low price. Its products include: The family of Roku digital video players and the SoundBridge Internet radio line. Roku is privately held and based in Saratoga, Calif. For more information on the company and its products, visit: http://www.roku.com.
Engage PR (for Zeugma)
Jeannette Bitz, 510-748-8200 ext. 207
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