With this post, I’ll be wrapping up a multi-part discussion about measuring video quality. In the first part, I described Mean Opinion Scores and how these scores provide a quantitative value of multimedia quality. Last time, I spoke about “full-reference” and “reference-free”...
In my last post, I discussed the importance of quality in the world of mobile video; I claimed that consumers who watch video on their cell phones (or other mobile device) would not accept a low-quality experience. I have to admit that I expected some disagreement with my position - after all, wireless...
I just read through Bob's blog on video quality and, if I read it correctly, he believes video quality is a key differentiator for wireless service providers. In particular, Bob points out that consumer expectations are high because of professionally produced content and how we view that on television...
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Filed under: Video, quality, Amazon, Level 3, CDNetworks, AT&T, Limelight, Verizon, Akamai, BT, content delivery network, CDN
In my last post, I wrote about Nielsen’s “ Three Screens Report ”, a quarterly publication that provides statistics about America’s video viewing habits on the three screens of television, computer (internet), and mobile device. In that post, I highlighted the fact that the number...
One interesting debate i have been following recently is whether consumers will choose to download videos using their service provider's video-on-demand service or whether they will choose to download or stream videos from third parties, i.e., iTunes. Generally speaking, this last option is often...
