All this news about IPTV Streaming
has got me all hopped up on the subject. So it comes as little surprise as the
General Election draws nigh on Thursday December 29th 2011 as noted
in the winding down of Campaign activities in the article “Last
lap - JLP, PNP wrap up campaigning”, published Wednesday, December 28,
2011, The Jamaica Observer that
IPTV is again on my mind.
The Intense Television Jamaica personality
Pepita Little may have staged a fight to defect to a higher paying job at LIME TV like Ragashanti
as noted in the article “Ragashanti
returns on Lime Mobile TV”, published July 14 2011, the Jamaica Star is part of the reason why
my gaze is yet again cast at IPTV Streaming in Jamaica. The Telecom Providers
are now ramping up the build-out of their Wireless and Wired Broadband Internet
Services both in Jamaica and Caribbean-wide.
Wireless Broadband Services based
on HSDPA+ Release 7 (High Speed Downlink Packet
Access Plus) Network with speeds in the 10MBps best effort range
and faster is thus on the cards for December 2012AD.
Thus, being young, she may be a
part of Telecom Provider LIME’s
soon-to-be launched IPTV Streaming Platform in partnership with Avail-TVN
powered by Juniper Networks as prognosticated in my blog article
entitled “LIME
chooses Juniper Networks to rebroadcast Avail-TVN's Content - Pepita Little's
Ghostbusters to capture Media Personalities” where she would make mucho dinero as the host of a show she
would basically OWN.
Wouldn’t
be strange for Telecom Provider LIME
to bet so heavily on a young star or even on the
concept of Jamaicans paying for Wireless broadband just to watch Cable TV
anywhere, anytime on any device, basically a foreshadowing of the “TV Anywhere”
concept!
So it
should come as no surprise that deceased Apple CEO Steve Job’s “Hobby”, the
US$99 Apple iTV is now No. 1 dog in town in the nascent IPTV Streaming Set Top
box race according to analyst Strategy Analytics in the article “Strategy
Analytics: Apple TV now leads set-top boxes”, published December 13,
2011 By Geoff Duncan, DigitalTrends. The US$49
Roku Box occupies a close second place according to Strategy Analytics.
The rather reliable analyst's results paint an interesting
picture of Apple’s oft neglected device which Strategy Analytics senior analyst Jia Wu quantifies by
saying “Apple is leading this nascent market, which it still considers a
‘hobby’”.
The Statistics as usual tell their own story:
1.
The US market is now 12 (12,000,000) million units
strong
2.
It is dominated mainly by Apple iTV, which has 33%
of the market or four million (4,000,000) Apple iTV units
3.
8% of households have an Apple iTV, a mite bit better
than the EU which has 7% adoption of IPTV
4.
30% percent of Apple TV owners rented movies or
TV shows (Netflix!!?)
That last bit is telling of the
power of movies and television services provided by Netflix, the main draw of
the Apple iTV, which I also had high hopes for in my blog article
entitled “Apple
and the iTV - Back to the future”.
Apple’s iTunes service doesn’t
feature heavily in the popularity and success of the of the Apple’s “hobby” Set
top Box, but instead indicates the popularity of Netflix, which is set to come
to Jamaica and the Caribbean as noted in my blog article
entitled “LIME
chooses Juniper Networks to rebroadcast Avail-TVN's Content - Pepita Little's
Ghostbusters to capture Media Personalities”.
Indeed, Netflix may actually make
Triple Play Provider FLOW Extinct, despite FLOW’s push towards the same concept
of “TV-Anywhere” and even 3D HDTV as note in my geezam
blog article entitled “FLOW
goes 3D HDTV et al – Netflix to make FLOW Extinct”.
So an Apple Television Set as I had
prognosticated in detail with all my wishes and dreams in BOTH my blog article
entitled “Apple Television Set, a
docking cradle for the Apple iTV - Super 8 A Gift for Christmas” and
my Geezam blog article entitled “Web-enabled Television Sets
Sales Rise – The Apple Television cometh” is very possible.
Albeit in a size less than 40”
seems a tad unlikely as postulated in the article “Rumor: Apple iTV on track for
2012 Q2-Q3 release”, published December 27,
2011 By
Molly McHugh, DigitalTrends but
possible as the Apple iMac, on which my concepts is based, is a 27” neo-retina
display that can be a shell with a docking cradle for the obviously now popular
Apple iTV.
Ultimately a good mix of the two (2) i.e.
compelling specs that are intuitive and easy to use and content available
anytime, anyplace and on any device, basically the “TV anywhere” concept as
opined in the article “Apple iTV: It’s about the
experience, not content”, published , GigaOM and the article “Analyst: Device and content
choice key to Apple iTV success”, published , GigaOM will make the supposedly soon-to-be-launched Apple
Television Set a success in an otherwise already crowded Internet Television
market.
A bold move for Apple this would
be, from the small swimming pond of IPTV Streaming devices to the crowded
market of high-end Television Sets bristling with features and already sporting
Netflix support (get it!! Sport! The main reason for having Netflix!!). This
folks is Apple’s Blue Crush (2002) on Netflix!
But back to Jamaica and the
Caribbean at large as Barbados is also a part of this grand experiment by Telecom
Provider LIME. IPTV Streaming is indeed
a good gamble for Telecom Provider Apple after the spectacular success of LIME TV combined with the intoxicating powder
keg of rumours swirling about of the impending coming of an Apple Television
Set or “TV” as the Americans call it.
If the popularity of IPTV Streaming
catches on in Jamaica as Wireless and Wired Internet expends, propelled by the very
popular Intense “Chica” Pepita Little really going to Telecom Provider LIME, we may be witness to the birth of
Jamaica’s and the Caribbean’s first IPTV
Streaming Star.
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