Multiscreen White Paper

Answers to Your Multiscreen Delivery Challenges

Online and mobile viewing of premium video content, including TV programming, movies, sports events, and news, is now poised to go mainstream. Driven by the recent availability of low-cost, high-resolution desktop/laptop/tablet PCs, smart phones, IP-based set-top boxes and now Internet-enabled television sets, consumers are moving the IP-based multiscreen TV market from ‘early adopter’ to ‘early majority’ – expecting that any media should be available on any device over wired and wireless Internet connections. Whether regarded as a disruption for cable TV, telco or satellite TV providers – or an opportunity for service providers to extend TV services onto the Web for on-demand, time-shifted and place shifted programming environments – multiscreen IP video delivery of both premium and user generated content will only grow.

Multiscreen Implications
This tectonic shift to IP video delivery of all content creates the need for a fundamental rethink of how content is delivered. The traditional model has been high bit rate encoding of content into MPEG-2 for delivery over a bandwidth- and quality-controlled network to a provider-controlled set-top box. The new model is Internet-based IP delivery of movies, TV shows, sporting events, news, etc. to a multitude of IP-connected devices (either directly or via third party IP-based set-top boxes) over uncontrolled backbone and last mile networks. This raises two sets of fundamental questions.

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Multiscreen IP Video Delivery: Understanding IP Video Transcoding, Packaging and Delivery Requirements for Carrier-Class Providers

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