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Pay TV market in Korea - Brief summary

This article is part of Netmanias report, "Pay TV market in South Korea: IPTV, Cable TV and Satellite TV", which was publieshed in December 14 2017. Click here to view the full report. Since the launch of cable TV service in 1995, its first pay TV service, Korea saw more pay TV services joining the market - satellite TV in 2002 and IPTV in 2009....

12/12/2017

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KT's AI TV 'GiGA Genie' to trigger fierce competition in the market

When we talk about 5G, there is one phrase that everyone agrees and likes to say – 5G will not only enhance speeds, but also have every thing ‘connected’ and every industry ‘converged’. What underlies all of this 'keeping every thing connected' is IoT while what keeps industries converged is artificial intelligence (AI) that analyzes big data and derives in...

02/13/2017

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KT's TV Service Revenue quickly catching up with Internet Service Revenue

[KT's TV Service Revenue quickly catching up with Internet Service Revenue] High-speed Internet, once South Korean wired network operators' best performing sector, has long been experiencing stagnation in sales. To overcome this, the operators introduced IPTV services (live channels, VoD) that take advantage of the broadband Internet networks in 2009. They began with no more tha...

11/28/2016

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5 Ways Netflix is Changing Telecom Networks

We are pleased to share with you all an interesting article contributed by Avi Dorfman who is technology executive with over 20 years of experience in the development and delivery of telecommunications systems. Avi Dorfman VP R&D at Telco Systems All Articles by Avi Dorfman...

08/16/2016

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What are minimum IP network bandwidth required for watching 4K UHD IPTV?

Currently, of all 3 IPTV service providers in Korea, KT is the only one offering UHD channels, three of all: SkyUHD, the world's first UHD, launched in September 2014, and SkyUHD2 and UXN, both launched in June 2015. SK Broadband and LG U+ are currently offering UHD VoD service only, but are working hard for UHD channel launch in the second half of the year. KT has been using Elemental&...

08/27/2015

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KT IPTV (4K UHD) Service (4): 4K UHD VoD

KT IPTV (4K UHD) Service (1) UHD Live TV (2) 'Most Popular Channels Now' (9-Channel View) (3) 4-channel View (4) UHD VoD Success or failure of UHD service lies in how much UHD contents the service provided can offer. Being well aware of that, KT has gradually secured more contents, for example, through upscaling of Full HD movies to UHD quality (e.g. 'The Admiral: Roarin...

06/30/2015

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KT IPTV (olleh GiGA UHD tv) Service (3): 4-channel View

KT IPTV (4K UHD) Service (1) UHD Live TV (2) 'Most Popular Channels Now' (9-Channel View) (3) 4-channel View (4) UHD VoD KT also offers 4-channel view service. This service is pretty similar to LG U+'s and has the following two options: Operator-selected channels: Offers a set of 4 channels selected by operator (sports, shopping, over-the-air and movies). User-selected...

06/06/2015

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KT IPTV (4K UHD) Service (2): 'Most Popular Channels Now' (9-Channel View)

KT IPTV (4K UHD) Service (1) UHD Live TV (2) 'Most Popular Channels Now' (9-Channel View) (3) 4-channel View (4) UHD VoD You probably have been switching channels, looking for something interesting to watch, until you finally settle down for one. For viewers like you, KT offers a new way of selecting channels through a service called "Most Popular Channels Now". At the company...

06/03/2015

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KT IPTV (4K UHD) Service (1): Live TV

KT IPTV (4K UHD) Service (1) UHD Live TV (2) 'Most Popular Channels Now' (9-Channel View) (3) 4-channel View (4) UHD VoD KT launched the world's first UHD IPTV service in September 2014. Now it has over 100,000 subscribers as of April 2015, closing trailing LG U+ who has attracted around 125,000 UHD subscribers over the same period of time. What differentiates KT's UHD...

05/30/2015

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LG U+ IPTV (U+ tv G 4K UHD) Services (2): 4K UHD VoD

LG U+'s IPTV service 1. Live TV 1.1 Basic channel 1.2 Multiview: operator-selected channels 1.3 Personalized Multiview: user-selected channels ► 2. VoD 2.1 UHD VoD: Encoding rate and streaming of 4K UHD VoD content LG U+ began UHD (3840x2160) VoD service in October 2014 (no UHD channel available yet, though). When it comes to UHD service,...

05/28/2015

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LG U+ IPTV (U+ tv G 4K UHD) Service (1): Live TV

LG U+'s IPTV service ►1. Live TV 1.1 Basic channel 1.2 Multiview: operator-selected channels 1.3 Personalized Multiview: user-selected channels 2. VoD 2.1 UHD VoD: Encoding rate and streaming of 4K UHD VoD content LG U+, with its competitors KT and SK Broadband, presented Live TV service (real-time retransmission of broadcast channels ov...

05/26/2015

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Do Google Global Caches (GGCs) serve YouTube live traffic as well, or not?

Google Global Caches (GGCs) have already been deployed in many telecom operators' data centers around the world, caching YouTube video files like Psy's Gangnam Style for the local users. This allows people around the globe to watch Psy singing and dancing without buffering through their local GGCs. Korean operators like SK Telecom, LG U+ and KINX have also made the same move in February...

11/20/2013

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YouTube's Live TV Streaming in Mobile Devices - HLS & Adaptive

This post will analyze the streaming methods used in YouTube's Live TV streaming services for mobile devices in an LTE network and a Wi-Fi network based on our actual measurements. YouTube's Live TV Streaming in Mobile Devices: HLS & Adaptive First, measurements in an LTE network The mobile device and network used for our measurement were Galaxy S4 and KT LTE network. First,...

10/30/2013

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YouTube, changing the way of delivering videos: Chunking and Adaptive Streaming are In,...

Recently, YouTube has changed/evolved the way it delivers video contents. It used to be a big fan of HTTP progressive download (downloading a video file by a single request just like downloading a data file) until last year. However, from this year, many efforts have been made by YouTube (e.g. switching to chunking and adaptive streaming) for improved video delivery. We will focus on "switching...

10/04/2013

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Summary of SK Telecom's Mobile IPTV Live Streaming (Full HD/HD/SD over LTE-A)

SK Telecom, the Korean No. 1 telecom operator, launched Btv Mobile service (in SD/HD) offering a variety of live broadcasting and VoD contents for mobile devices in around July 2012. And a year later in July 2013, boosted by the commercialization of LTE-A, it began a "Full HD" streaming service with drastically enhanced video quality. The following is the press release by SK Telecom about its n...

09/24/2013

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LG U+ HDTV Service based on LTE-A: Korea's First Successful Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) Swi...

In our previous post (Analysis of LG U+'s HDTV Streaming (LG U+ HDTV Service based on LTE-A), we discussed how LG U+ Mobile U+ HDTV service delivers video files to a device. Our first actual measurement confirmed that LG U+: used HLS, Apple's adaptive streaming (delivering video files chunkwise, unlike progressive download or RTMP/RTSP); and offered three profiles (quality levels)...

09/09/2013

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Analysis on Streaming Technology of LG U+ Mobile HDTV (LG U+ HDTV Service based on LTE-A)

On June 10, 2013, LG U+ launched U+ HDTV multi-channel service (U+ tv G 4 Channel Service) that enables users to watch 4 channels at the same time through home STB. Later in July, it introduced the same multi-channel service in a mobile version based on LTE-A. In this post, we will analyze the U+ HDTV streaming on mobile devices that support LTE-A. U+ HDTV service offers two viewing experi...

08/19/2013

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Who wins? - OTT Cache vs. Operator Cache

Sandvine has recently reported that, in the second half of 2012, Netflix and YouTube accounted for 48% (33% and 15% respectively) of the total Internet traffic in North America, making telecom operators' IP network look like a video transport network rather the Internet. With an ever-increasing number of users and higher-resolution videos, the traffic of these two (and hence the delivery c...

04/11/2013

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What is all about Managed CDN service agreement between KT and Akamai ?

Last week (March 27, 2013), KT, No. 1 telecommunications company in Korea with annual revenue of $22.3 billion in 2012, has entered into an agreement with Akamai, the world's No. 1 CDN service provider with annual revenue of $1.37 billion in 2012, for using Akamai's Managed CDN services. Since 2012, world's leading CDN service providers including Akamai, Limelight, Edgecast, etc. ha...

04/01/2013

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Google Global Cache (GGC) Operations for YouTube (2): LG U+ Case (with GGC)

As noted in our previous post, we will present you workflow that shows how a YouTube video is downloaded to an LG U+ subscriber device via Google Global Caches installed in the LG U+ Internet. First, we will discuss the case when LG U+ Google servers have a video that has been requested by a subscriber (Cache Hit). Then, we will discuss the case when none of the servers have it (Cache Miss)....

04/18/2012

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