{"id":2341,"date":"2014-05-12T18:40:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T18:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voped.com\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2014-05-12T18:40:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T18:40:47","slug":"online-news-roundup-hello-tv-apps-ott-and-pay-tv-as-best-friends-consumers-guide-to-streaming-tv-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/voped.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/online-news-roundup-hello-tv-apps-ott-and-pay-tv-as-best-friends-consumers-guide-to-streaming-tv-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Online News Roundup: Hello, TV Apps, OTT and Pay-TV as Best Friends, Consumer&#8217;s guide to streaming TV devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\"><a title=\"IAB Study Charts American's Embrace of Online Video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.streamingmedia.com\/Articles\/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=96881\" target=\"_blank\">IAB Study Charts American&#8217;s Embrace of Online Video<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; StreamingMedia<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to the IAB&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;2014 Original Digital Video Study,&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0online video viewers prefer online video over TV for news, sports, and daytime programming. Additionally, they like online video nearly as much as they like primetime TV.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"A consumer's guide to streaming TV devices\" href=\"https:\/\/homes.yahoo.com\/news\/a-consumer-s-guide-to-streaming-tv-devices-012957940.html\" target=\"_blank\">A consumer&#8217;s guide to streaming TV devices<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Yahoo!<br \/>\n<\/strong>Here, we break down the top players in the Web television market and compare details about their products.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Here's a Surprise: OTT and Pay-TV Could Wind Up As Best Friends\" href=\"http:\/\/www.videonuze.com\/article\/here-s-a-surprise-ott-and-pay-tv-could-wind-up-as-best-friends?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a Surprise: OTT and Pay-TV Could Wind Up As Best Friends<\/a> &#8211; Video Nuze<br \/>\n<\/strong>The traditional narrative around online\/over-the-top video is that it will incent cord-cutting and cord-nevering. But now, in a twist, instead of a looming battle between OTT and pay-TV, it could well be that we&#8217;re on the brink of a new era of cooperation between the two, which could have profound implications for everyone in the video ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"instapaper_title\" style=\"color: #f4f6f8;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a title=\"Goodbye, TV Channels\u2014And Hello, TV Apps\" href=\"http:\/\/readwrite.com\/2014\/05\/09\/smart-tv-channels-apps-streaming?utm_campaign=&amp;awesm=readwr.it_c1jw&amp;utm_content=awesmsharetools-sharebuttons&amp;utm_medium=readwr.it-twitter&amp;utm_source=t.co#awesm=~oE49xic0IQGxR6\" target=\"_blank\">Goodbye, TV Channels\u2014And Hello, TV Apps<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Read Write<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Television is evolving. Increasingly, it&#8217;s all about the apps now\u2014browsable, downloadable, interactive TV applications. You can thank the swelling\u00a0ranks of streaming services and devices for that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"One-In-Five pay-TV subs use TV Everywhere monthly\" href=\"http:\/\/www.broadbandtvnews.com\/2014\/05\/07\/one-in-five-pay-tv-subs-use-tv-everywhere-monthly\/?utm_content=5174204&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">One-In-Five pay-TV subs use TV Everywhere monthly<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Broadband TV News<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">More than one-in-five (21%) pay-TV subscribers use the TV Everywhere services provided by their operator at least once per month,\u00a0according to the latest NPD Group TV Everywhere Report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"instapaper_title\" style=\"color: #f4f6f8;\">g<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IAB Study Charts American&#8217;s Embrace of Online Video\u00a0&#8211; StreamingMedia According to the IAB&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;2014 Original Digital Video Study,&#8221;\u00a0online video viewers prefer online video over TV for news, sports, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/voped.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/voped.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/voped.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/voped.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/voped.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/voped.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2348,"href":"http:\/\/voped.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions\/2348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/voped.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/voped.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/voped.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/voped.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}