Level 3 Communications Blog
TV over the Internet isn’t the future, it’s here. In just the past few days, it was announced that one of the web’s subscription streaming services is now outpacing its TV subscription counterparts. But what about user experience? Isn’t Internet viewing sub-par to the traditional TV model? The answer lies in adaptive bit rates. Today, [...]
I’ve been reflecting on the very different experience I had watching TV when I grew up when compared to my own children. We haven’t consumed TV in a “traditional” way for about five years. And for about two years before that we were experimenting with all the new ways of watching TV. That’s a significant [...]
It is hard to believe that the NAB Show is right around the corner again, kicking off next week on April 8th, when the world of media and broadcast comes to Las Vegas. Over the past few years, the show has really been transformed into a rich melting pot of conferences and exhibitions covering every [...]
Technology. Education. Design. From the first day that I was introduced to TEDTalks, I’ve been a fan. In case you don’t know, TED is a global nonprofit devoted to “ideas worth spreading”, using video to reach a global audience. It’s that opening TED chime that gets me every time and, like Pavlov’s dogs, I know I’m in [...]
For anyone who works in the world of broadcast, the annual NAB Show that kicks off today in Las Vegas is definitely something of a tradition. Ask someone who’s been a few times and you’ll get stories of stressful booth set-ups, memories of sore feet from walking the endless miles around one of the world’s [...]
I think that the past year, 2010, will be remembered in our industry as the year of the visual Internet. – Jim Crowe About a year ago, Jim Crowe, our CEO, gave one of those supercool “Jim-like” proclamations about the state of the Internet. His declaration was that in 2010, the Internet had hit a [...]
If the latest numbers from The NPD Group are to be believed, the Gaming industry may just be clinging to its last “life”. According to NPD, year over year retail revenue dropped 34% to $750.6 M. This represents the worst performance in the industry since 2004. The lone bright spot, NPD predicts that digital and other revenue [...]
It seems like we’ve all (well those in the industry!) become obsessed with the term “cord cutter”. It’s written about as if we are teetering on the edge of a cliff where the pay TV companies are suddenly going to cease to exist. Everyone is looking for the quarterly result that shows an inflection point [...]
It’s the most overused meme on the Internet. Too bad it’s true. When I was growing up in Rochester, NY in the late 80s there were three stores that I must have visited at least once a week as soon as I passed my driving test: The Village Green Bookstore The Record Archive Electronics Boutique [...]
Chances are it is. Our friends at Netflix have written to the FCC to suggest that, for those that charge for data above a cap, overage fees are too high. But there is another way to look at this. What, as consumers, have we bought? What did we think we were sold? How long do [...]
