| Today's Top 10 Stories | | #1 | | FuboTV Passes 70,000 Subscribers | | | | Sports-centric virtual MVPD service FuboTV announced today that it added nearly 24,000 subscribers during the second quarter of 2016, bringing its total to more than 71,000. The second-quarter subscriber growth marks a 50% quarter-to-quarter jump.
Why This Matters: The pay TV service gives U.S. subscribers access to international sporting events, including live soccer matches from international leagues and tournaments, across more than two-dozen channels.
The Take: B&C | | | | #2 | | INCOMPAS: Comcast-Netflix Deal a Referendum on 'Unlock The Box' | | | | INCOMPAS, a trade group whose members include Netflix, praised Netflix for carving out a technology integration deal with Comcast, calling the service a "trailblazer that has opened doors for other streamers."
Why This Matters: "From open internet to interconnection policies, we advocated for a foundation that enables over-the-top content and traditional video to grow together, rather than apart," said INCOMPAS chief Chip Pickering. "These smart policies, led and adopted by the FCC, have been hard fought victories that have knocked down many walls and are good for competition, consumers and free markets."
2 Takes: B&C | Fierce Cable | | | | #3 | | Mobile Video Revenue to Hit $25 Billion by 2021 | | | | According to a new report from Strategy Analytics, worldwide revenue from mobile video will reach $25 billion by 2021, growing at a 28% compound annual growth rate.
Why This Matters: The report predicts that users of mobile video will more than double to two billion users by the end of 2022, equal to 36% penetration among the global mobile users. In 2010, advertising accounted for just 2% of worldwide mobile video revenue. That ballooned to 40% this year, and should swell to 66% by 2021.
4 Takes: Advanced Television | Media Post | TBI Vision | Rapid TV News | | |
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| | THE CHATTER | | Now, all of a sudden, we have 4K, mainly because display manufacturers saw the market going down for HD displays, and the easiest step forward for them was to copy and paste more pixels... The other option was to put higher dynamic range (HDR) [into HD displays], but that wasnt as easily done by manufacturers because that meant they would have to take measures to get more light out of displays to get better contrast. In my opinion if they had done so, people would have perceived contrast in such displays as resembling what we now call 4K, even if it would have still been HD and not 4K.
Peter Centen, VP/R&D for Cameras at Grass Valley |
| | Blog Post of The Day | Media, Tech Titans Arrive at Sun Valley Conference as Economic, Business Questions Loom
By Joe Flint, WSJ
The titans of industry are descending on Sun Valley, Idaho, for the Allen & Co. investment banks annual conference that runs through Saturday. This years assembly of powerful executives comes amid concerns about the global economy, renewed interest in media and technology acquisitions and looming questions regarding the fate of companies like Yahoo and embattled Viacom. More |
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