Introduction: This second article on the 2014 Broadband TV Conference summarizes a presentation by OPTICOM’s CEO on streaming video quality measurements. We think that topic will be very important for many players in the OTT streaming video and connected TV markets. In particular, we believe it’ll be quite valuable for adaptive bit rate OTT and mobile video streaming providers, in order to measure and then attempt to improve the Quality of Experience (QoE) of their customers. Perceptual Quality Measurement of OTT Streaming Video TV Services, Michael Keyhl, CEO of OPTICOM How do you measure streaming video quality? Very few seem to have good metrics on video Quality of Experience (QoE) for viewers, even though it impacts many participants in the OTT, SD/HD video content delivery business. The stakeholders involved in QoE for video subscribers/consumers include: content provider, OTT provider, pay TV providers (cable, satellite, telco), network operators (especially for mobile video consumption), device makers, video codec providers and mobile apps companies including Internet videos in their apps. Michael Keyhl, CEO of OPTICOM addressed this important topic in a very enlightening Broadband TV conference session. Germany-based OPTICOM develops algorithms for measuring video quality and licenses that technology to test equipment, video analytics and other OEM […]
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