| Today's Top 10 Stories | | #1 | | Amazon Releases Its First Dolby Vision HDR Titles | | | | Amazon Video announced that it is now streaming titles in Dolby Vision High Dynamic Range, including Amazon original series Bosch (season 2), along with a batch of movies from Sony Pictures. Amazon said it intends to offer at least 150 hours of HDR content by the end of the year.
Why This Matters: Amazon Prime members can stream titles in Dolby Vision and HDR 10 at no additional cost. HDR 10 content is supported by Amazons app on compatible Samsung, Sony and LG smart TVs, while Dolby Vision HDR titles are offered from Amazon on compatible LG smart TVs.
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| | #2 | | Nielsen: U.S. SVOD Penetration Catches Up with DVRs | | | | According to the latest Nielsen Total Audience Report, SVOD penetration has caught up with DVRs for the first time, with each sitting around 50%. But SVOD has risen 9% since the end of 2014, and 2% since the end of last year.
Why This Matters: The new Nielsen figures also show that almost 30% of consumers have both DVR and SVOD services and that live TV viewing is down 1% compared to last year while time-shifted viewing is flat year over year.
4 Takes: MCN | CNet | Fierce Cable | Media Post |
| | #3 | | FCC Retains Most Broadcast Ownership Restrictions In Quadrennial Review | | | | FCC chairman Tom Wheeler circulated a quadrennial media ownership review item today that retains most of the current restrictions on dual-station and newspaper/station ownership and even adds some.
Why This Matters: Broadcasters had been hoping for some relief, given what they said was major competition from multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) and the Web. But the item resubmits the rule tightening up shared service agreements between station owners, known as joint sales agreements (JSAs), with the change that grandfathered JSAs can be sold without triggering ownership issues, as Congress directed it to do.
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| | THE CHATTER |  | The TV revolution has reached an inflection point as already-complex issues now compound upon one another causing even more perplexing challenges for premium content providers. Everything from the quality-of-experience to buffer ratios, business model strategies and how to keep viewers engaged, success in todays TV landscape requires big solutions to big questions.
Ooyala Principal Analyst Jim ONeill |
| | Blog Post of The Day | Changing Horses Midstream: Video Content in the 21st Century
By Zachariah Ezer, Huffington Post
This week, Lin-Manuel Miranda released the first episode of Freestyle Love Supreme on Seeso, a NBC-owned comedy streaming service. What many may not know, however, is that this is the second time Freestyle Love Supreme has been available for taped viewing. The first was on Pivot, a cable channel one might find buried between their HBO and sports packages, which has the minor distinction of being the first linear television channel to offer broadband-only subscription, effectively making them a streaming service. More |
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