Wes Simpson

Having the support of the dominant online video providers is obviously a big plus for market penetration, but Flash has a number of technical benefits as well.

Part of what is holding broadcasters back from using Ethernet as a universal platform is the unpredictable nature of packet-based networks.

While the share of IPv6 traffic is currently tiny, it is growing rapidly.

New technologies are emerging that have the bandwidth capacity to handle these jumbo-size bit streams

One major issue is the current lack of a Digital Rights Management capability.

What's needed is another way to construct a stream that can better withstand data losses and still produce a video output that is acceptable to viewers.

Small IPTV systems using today's technology can be installed with a reasonable up-front cost, and deployed over existing IP networks

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP provides a common, standards-based methodology for delivering video and audio content over a wide variety of IP networks.

Mobile video is poised to enter a period of rapid growth, as new equipment becomes available and service offerings proliferate.

Standard approval of 5G will spur deployment

Works well for pre-recorded video files, but can create significant performance bottlenecks for live streaming video.

As new services gain acceptance, the need for PVRs may slowly start to diminish for many consumers.