Ipad To Launch worldwide - By: Paddy Chang

We have known for some time that in reality, live internet tv is not much of a threat to the big cable companies, yet. But they know, just as we do. That as streaming gets faster and more readily available, and internet enabled devices flourish, the threat of cord cutters will become much bigger. CEO of Comcast, Brian Roberts speaking at the Cable Show, downplayed the internet tv threat, and promptly changed tact and said he was worried!

He said:- “There’s not any real evidence that [consumers] want to get rid of my distribution, whether it’s satellite, cable, or phone, and just go to the Internet”…But the Comcast chief said that he has expressed concerns about cord cutting, and noted that he has had previously expressed more alarm about the trend than one of his top lieutenants, Comcast COO Steve Burke. “This is where Steve Burke and I are very different people. He wakes up every day, and the glass is half full. I wake up every day and the sky is falling,” Roberts said.Comcast know what they are talking about, and are right to be worried.Comcast, along with the other cable companies have low consumer satisfaction rates and keep upping the subscription costs. When fed up viewers see they can have access to a cheap, easy on demand service that gives all that premium cable content minus the hassle and cost, cord cutting will turn into a tidal wave, but just not yet.

Meanwhile Comcast are fighting off the internet tv threat with their own online tv on demand concept, TV Everywhere available to subscribers only supplying a limited selection of paywalled TV content. Early reactions were somewhat mixed, but Roberts says there should be a new version of the platform within the next 3 months.

Apple have announced that their highly anticipated iPad will get it’s international launch on May 28th, the touch screen pc will be released in a number of Countries including:- Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK on the same date.

iPad will soon be available worldwide
The news comes after massive success in the US, with iPads selling out all over the Country with Apple retail stores in 13 US cities already out of stock. “Demand continues to exceed supply,” Apple’s Natalie Kerris said. Apple has sold over a million iPads so far.
Success for the iPad will be largely down to it’s media features, from reading ebooks to its amazing internet tv features All this activity is driving content providers in a migration to support the browser-based open standard, HTML5. Multiple broadcasters are tweaking their online services to support this standard, as well as the iPad.

ABC have had success with their catch up tv app, Netflix have a movies on demand app and tv on demand king Hulu, is expected to introduce its own iPad app later this month, bringing the second most popular video streaming service after YouTube to Apple’s new baby (although we are not sure if it’s going to be free).

Apple CO, Tim Cook, speaking at a Goldman Sachs conference in February 2010 noted that Apple TV sales had increased by 35% compared to the same quarter last year. “Apple TV is still a hobby. We’ve been very clear about that,” he said. “We’re continuing to invest in it because our gut tells us there’s something there.”

Apple are in a prime position now to expand on it’s Apple TV concept, as it now has several devices equipped with Wi-Fi which can access a user’s iTunes content.

Apple tv may soon become a little more than just a hobby.

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