In a recent post here Ariel cautioned that the world is going High Def and bandwidth is becoming a valuable asset. He was talking about the world of visual communication, but this is true (and maybe more relevant) for the consumer and entertainment markets as well. It seems that all around us the need for bandwidth is growing. This leads one to wonder whether the infrastructure we currently have and the one we’re building for the future will be sufficient.
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | November 25th, 2008 | Filed under Collaboration, Video Conferencing
Tsahi from the blog next door wrote an interesting post on the 8 features he would like to see added to the TV set of the future. As I am not a big TV fan, but am a technophile and writing a blog mainly on Video Conferencing, I pondered about what killer features would I want in my (future) video conferencing solution (which I will henceforth call FVCS). Let me first tell you that I honestly believe that my future
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | October 21st, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
Are the Olympic Games a Win for Mobile Video Content? The Olympic Games in Beijing have really put TV back in the spotlight, in case people were starting to wonder if this medium is on its way down. The combination of live competition and mass marketing sent people running to any screen available – from the HDTV in the living room to the mobile phone in their pocket. The Olympic Games were a good benchmark, if you want to examine
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | September 8th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Applications
Tsahi continues with his disruptive posts, and his latest addresses IPTV. Tsahi argues that IPTV is no revolution at this point in time. It is much of the same. Mainly because there are no new features, and VOD and PVR functionality are quite limited. “These features are simply not enough for consumers to take the leap to IPTV”, he writes, and claims that “as we stream an all-IP network to our homes, and use it not only for the internet
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | September 4th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Applications
[This post is based on a lecture given by Ariel David and I on the effects of IP networks on visual quality in video over IP applications] One of the biggest obstacles of the video conferencing industry has long been the user experience. Early video conferencing systems suffered from poor quality video and low fidelity audio, as well as great difficulties in establishing and maintaining connection for the conference duration. Most of these issues were solved with advances in processor
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | August 26th, 2008 | Filed under Video Applications
A few weeks ago Bezeq, Israel’s leading telecommunications provider, announced that its Board of Directors decided to move forward with the Next Generation Network (NGN) project. Bezeq is the dominant leader in the fixed line (wire-line) market in Israel and a strong player in the internet provider market (based on ADSL technology). Bezeq will invest, according to the press release, more than $400 million in upgrading its infrastructure in order to provide internet services at bitrates of up to 50Mbps.
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | August 18th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Applications
