Thursday, June 19, 2008

New Research Into On-Demand TV In UK

The results of a new survey which has been conducted by the Ericsson company to look into the usage of on-demand TV and Internet video by adults within the U.K. has just been released
The results showed that 57% of UK residents watch around 10 hours of either on-demand TV or pre-recorded TV.
The research found that service providers have noted a rapid acceleration in demand for video over braodband, and now HTTP streaming traffic is superseding P2P video content downloads.

The vision of Michael Iron, Streamsoft founder is to upgrade the experience of watching and broadcasting P2P video with Streamsoft player.

Read more about the research here:
http://www.iptv-watch.co.uk/20052008-new-research-into-use-of-on-demand-tv-in-uk.html

Video-on-demand, IPTV, peer-to-peer (P2P) video, and Internet video are forecast to account for nearly 90 percent of all consumer IP traffic in 2012.

The vision of Michael Iron, the founder of Streamsoft is to become one of the leaders of the P2P video with the Streamsoft Player.
Cisco Systems, the San Jose, Calif.-based company that makes a living selling plumbing for the Internet (amongst other things), has come out with a prediction: Traffic on the world’s networks will increase (annually) 46 percent from 2007 to 2012, nearly doubling every two years. As a result, there will be an annual bandwidth demand of approximately 522 exabytes2, or more than half a zettabyte.
In 2012, Internet video traffic alone will be 400 times the traffic carried by the U.S. Internet backbone in 2000. Representative of this trend, Internet video has jumped to 22 percent of the global consumer Internet traffic in 2007 from 12 percent in 2006. Video-on-demand, IPTV, peer-to-peer (P2P) video, and Internet video are forecast to account for nearly 90 percent of all consumer IP traffic in 2012.
Read more here:

http://gigaom.com/2008/06/16/big-growth-for-internet-to-continue-cisco-predicts/

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Janko Roettgers 's how To Promote Your TV Show on P2P Networks

Janko Roettgers from newteevee.com wrote an interesting article about how To Promote Your TV Show on P2P Networks. Some of his recommendations are: Utilize file-sharing blogs, and go with the big guys (Pirate Bay, Isohunt and Mininova). The vision of Michael Iron, the founder of Streamsoft, is to make the Streamsoft player the new big guy in the p2p video Scene. Read Janko Roettgers article:
http://newteevee.com/2008/06/13/how-to-promote-your-tv-show-on-p2p-networks/

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Special Interview with Streamsoft CEO, Michael Iron on Israel On Blog

Michael Iron, Streamsoft founder and CEO, was interviewed in Israel On Blog and said: " we are busy preparing our launch of the Streamsoft player. It’s an exciting time for us. The online video space is very hot and so is the P2P landscape and we believe we will have a major impact on both".

You can read all the interview here:http://www.israel-on-blog.com/special-interview-with-streamsoft-ceo-michael-iron/