Ad-skipping is likely to increase, as DVRs flood the mass market thanks to plummeting prices and increased bundling from pay-TV operators seeking a competitive advantage.
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Beyond the technology, Google itself also must find a way to work more closely with pay-TV operators, which have been cool to what looks to them like a huge, rich interloper.
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Eutelsat's new channel is designed to benefit all actors in the broadcasting chain who want to acquire expertise in 4K, including production companies, pay-TV operators, rights owners and TV set manufacturers.
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The rise of online video also threatens to break up the industry's pricing model as fragmenting TV audiences find more opportunities to pay only for the content that interests them instead of the bundle of channels that traditional pay-TV operators typically sell to customers at one overall price.
With an elegant, user-friendly interface, unparalleled speed and performance and a broad content line-up, the DivX TV platform is easy to implement and can be supported on virtually any kind of Internet-connected consumer electronics device, including digital televisions, blu-ray players, gaming consoles, pay-tv operators set-top devices, multimedia storage devices, and even mobile phones.
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But it has been losing market share since then as a result of competition from satellite pay-TV providers and telecom operators as well as budding online platforms like Netflix and Google TV.
He is also up against adept political operators like Italian pay-TV mogul, and now prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, who have superb insider political contacts and know their way around the European Union's regulatory minefield.
While the upside is vast, Netflix must compete for this growing demographic with established cable and satellite operators that offer streaming and pay-TV services like Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Dish Network and DirecTV.
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Netflix is the online movie streaming company that competes with cable and satellite operators like Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Dish Network and DirecTV for streaming and pay-TV services, as well as video rental services like Redbox.
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