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In recent years, on-demand video services, such as Netflix and Amazon Video, have become extremely popular. To understand how people use these services, we recruited 20 people from nine households to keep a viewing diary for 14 days. To better ...

Due to recent technological evolution, the provision of IPTV services has grown considerably. One of the services normally included in IPTV is Linear TV, where audiovisual contents are made available in the form of program schedules. Another service is ...

This work presents the analysis of a software architecture for the measurement of audience and interactivity in IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) environments. The implementation used is in accordance with the recommendations of the ITU (International ...

This paper presents the results obtained from a systematic literature review that aimed at mapping current research studies that use contextual information to improve the TV watching experience or propose some interesting approach using the TV ...

This paper presents the development and evaluation cycle of an interactive television (iTV) prototype that aims to improve the way users discover and select their TV content, bearing in mind the cognitive model that the viewer typically uses in mindless ...

Testing Digital TV applications is not a simple task. DTV applications either need to be transmitted by a TV broadcaster or someone with an equipment capable of generating a DTV signal with the application embedded. Alternatively, an interactive TV ...

Despite of the establishment of digital television services, audience measurement and other media analysis still rely on obsolete and usually expensive techniques that date back to the analog era. Moreover, the introduction of interactive services into ...

Social TV has been an active area of research for more than a decade now, but most research has focused on interaction between remote participants, either through direct communication or more indirect e.g. in the form of social recommendations. However, ...

The growing demand for video streaming over the Web has increased the importance of the recently published MPEG standard Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH). With MPEG-DASH, video delivery will be harmonized across the Internet by enabling ...

Today increasingly large volumes of TV and video are distributed over IP-networks and over the Internet. It is therefore essential for traffic and cache management to understand TV program popularity and access patterns in real networks.

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Recent advances in residential broadband access technologies have led to a wave of commercial IPTV deployments. As IPTV services are rolled out at scale, it is essential for IPTV systems to maintain ultra-high reliability and performance. A major issue ...

Until recently, the TV viewing experience has not been a very social activity compared to activities on the World Wide Web. In this work, we will present a Voice-enabled Social TV system (VoiSTV) which allows users to interact, follow and monitor the ...

Users continue to have ubiquitous access to internet powered video content - giving them many choices for the media they choose to watch. However, even with the availability of millions of hours of internet video, consumers spend a significant amount of ...

Providing high bit-rates, WiMAX enables IPTV multicasting for several simultaneous broadcasting channels. WiMAX base stations can offer higher capacity to users with better signal quality values, and more robust but lower capacity modulations to users ...

News content extends well beyond the scope of a single medium: video, audio, text, interactive experiences, and social sharing all contribute to an individual's understanding and experience of content. While some content that exists across media can ...

In this paper we describe our experiences of developing and monitoring an Internet Television (IPTV) service in order to determine to what extent the system can provide useful hints (or triggers) that are exploitable by Content Distribution Networks (...

Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) has emerged as a new delivery method for TV. In contrast with native broadcast in traditional cable and satellite TV system, video streams in IPTV are encoded in IP packets and distributed using IP unicast and ...

The mobility and ubiquity for any type of device to access the IPTV network must be supplied by the service provider. The minimum bandwidth required in the access network to provide IPTV services jointly with the necessity to guarantee the Quality of ...

One of the biggest advantages of interactive television (TV) is that it allows the viewer to watch the content at his or her most convenient time, either by pausing an ongoing broadcast or by selecting to view the content at a time later than the ...

This paper is about challenges of technological and media innovations concerning elderly's quality of life. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) aims at producing technological and media support to help elderly people to stay at their homes longer. There are ...