scholarly journals The quest for a successful book-to-series adaptation in the times of SVOD — using the examples of “The Handmaid’s Tale and Alias Grace” by Margaret Atwood

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 93-103
Author(s):  
Joanna Szydełko
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Video On Demand ◽  
Streaming Video ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Entertainment Television ◽  
The Times

A fascinating factor of so-called mass culture is the ability to adapt to society and its needs. The same pattern seems to be followed by the film industry, as it has been influenced by other branches of entertainment, television included. These are SVODs (Streaming Video on Demand platforms), which offer a growing number of screen adaptations of literary works. The following paper aims to analyse some criteria upon which book-to-series adaptations might be regarded as successful, using examples from The Handmaid’s Tale and Alias Grace.Produced respectively by Hulu and CBC, both based on books by the Canadian female writer Margaret Atwood, the analysed shows confirm that the audience is more inclined to watch (and read) an intertextual production that often reflects and comments on contemporary political and social reality.

The Art of Distribution: Video on Demand

2010 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas Hilderbrand
Keyword(s):  
Video On Demand ◽  
Streaming Video ◽  
Independent Films ◽  
On Demand

An account of the rise of Video on Demand as a method of distribution for arthouse and independent films, focusing on the IFC Films and Magnolia Pictures companies, and charting the growing success of streaming video as opposed to DVD and theatrical releasing.

Déjà vu? A decade of research on language laboratories, television and video in language learning

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Vanderplank
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Interactive Television ◽  
Video On Demand ◽  
Streaming Video ◽  
Future Research ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Digital Language ◽  
Language Teaching And Learning

The developments in the last ten years in the form of DVD, streaming video, video on demand, interactive television and digital language laboratories call for an assessment of the research into language teaching and learning making use of these technologies and the learning paradigms underpinning them. This paper surveys research on language teaching and learning using these and older technologies since 1999, and maps out some pointers for future research. The evidence suggests that research on video and language learning using DVD and other recent technologies is already well established, bringing out a number of issues for further study. In contrast, research-led implementation of the enhanced functionality of digital language laboratories is hardly in its infancy and much language laboratory use is marginal at best.

scholarly journals The Wireless Threat to Fixed Broadband Services

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Nigel Pugh
Keyword(s):  
Video On Demand ◽  
Streaming Video ◽  
Market Positioning ◽  
Mobile Broadband ◽  
Broadband Service ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Wireless Service ◽  
Wireless Broadband ◽  
Negative Perceptions ◽  
Market Trends

This paper provides results from a survey of broadband customers in Australia in November 2017. Respondents included both NBN customers and non-NBN broadband customers. The survey showed an increasing acceptance of mobile broadband, in line with other market trends, but identified significant dissatisfaction – one quarter of mobile broadband respondents and about one third of fixed broadband respondents – with current services. Factors that may affect a decision to switch from fixed to mobile broadband, or vice versa, included price, reliability, bundling of phone with broadband, and the capability of streaming video on demand. Negative perceptions of the NBN are also significant. Overall, we identify that about 30% of existing fixed broadband households would consider switching to a wireless broadband service. We also note the future rollout of 5G wireless service and the resultant market positioning of telcos, which may support further positive perceptions of wireless broadband.

Streaming video on demand platforms and competition policy: the Brazilian case

2020 ◽  
Vol n°99 (2) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Luiz Carlos Delorme Prado ◽  
Diandra Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Competition Policy ◽  
Video On Demand ◽  
Streaming Video ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Brazilian Case

scholarly journals Localized Multistreams for P2P Streaming

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Majed Alhaisoni ◽  
Mohammed Ghanbari ◽  
Antonio Liotta
Keyword(s):  
Cellular Networks ◽  
Video On Demand ◽  
Streaming Video ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
P2p Streaming ◽  
On Demand ◽  
User Terminal ◽  
Network Utilization ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
A New Technique

Streaming video over the Internet, including cellular networks, has now become a commonplace. Network operators typically use multicasting or variants of multiple unicasting to deliver streams to the user terminal in a controlled fashion. P2P streaming is an emerging alternative, which is theoretically more scalable but suffers from other issues arising from the dynamic nature of the system. Users' terminals become streaming nodes but they are not constantly connected. Another issue is that they are based on logical overlays, which are not optimized for the physical underlay infrastructure. An important proposition is to find effective ways to increase the resilience of the overlay whilst at the same time not conflicting with the network. In this article we look at the combination of two techniques, redundant streaming and locality awareness, in the context of both live and video-on-demand streaming. We introduce a new technique and assess it via a comparative, simulation-based study. We find that redundancy affects network utilization only marginally if traffic is kept at the edges via localization techniques.

STANDPUNKTE: Cloud-TV - Idee, Ausgestaltung und Wirkung

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-33
Author(s):  
Arnold Picot ◽  
Hermann Rotermund ◽  
Helwin Lesch
Keyword(s):  
Video On Demand ◽  
Internet Research ◽  
Sich Eine ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Arnold Picot

Das Medium Fernsehen hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten eher inkrementell weiterentwickelt. Durch neue Übertragungswege wie Satelliten und Kabelnetze haben sich Programmspektrum und Darstellungsqualität deutlich verbessert. Smartphones und andere Endgeräte ermöglichen den Zugriff auf Inhalte jenseits des klassischen Fernsehers. Mit Cloud-TV deutet sich nun eine grundlegende Veränderung an. Cloud-TV bündelt lineares Fernsehen, Video-on-Demand-Dienste und zahlreiche weitere Dienste in einem Angebot, das ein Nutzer von allen Endgeräten aus nutzen kann. Es stellt die bekannten Muster der Mediennutzung, der Wertschöpfung im Medienbereich und die vorhandene Regulierung genauso in Frage wie die Arbeitsteilung zwischen privaten und öffentlichen Anbietern. Diesem Thema hatte das Munich Center for Internet Research (MCIR), ein interdisziplinäres Forschungszentrum der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, am 16. Mai 2017 eine Veranstaltung gewidmet. Im Rahmen einer Podiumsdiskussion hatten sich Arnold Picot, Hermann Rotermund und Helwin Lesch intensiv mit dem Thema Cloud-TV auseinandergesetzt. Nachfolgend findet sich eine Zusammenfassung ihrer Statements. Wir knüpfen damit an den Beitrag aus Heft 3/2016 zur Zukunft des Fernsehens und speziell zu der Rolle der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten in Zeiten der Cloud an. Sicherlich beschäftigen wir uns aber nicht das letzte Mal mit der Zukunft des klassischen Fernsehens!

Amazons Kampf um das Wohnzimmer

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 37-39
Author(s):  
Ralf Kaumanns
Keyword(s):  
Streaming Media ◽  
Video On Demand ◽  
Video Content ◽  
On Demand

Der Kampf um das Wohnzimmer ist voll entbrannt. Eine Reihe von Anbietern versuchen Streaming Media-Dienste im deutschen Markt zu etablieren. Amazon hat sich mit seiner Strategie eine marktführende Rolle erarbeiten können. Laut einer Analyse von Goldmedia¹ besitzt Amazon mittlerweile einen Anteil im Video-On-Demand-Markt von 38,9%, deutlich vor Wettbewerbern wie Apple, Maxdome, Google oder Netflix. Der Erfolg kommt nicht von ungefähr. Der Grund liegt vor allem in einer umfassenden Strategie rund um das Thema Bewegtbild und Video Content. Im Kampf um das Wohnzimmer haben selbst große und finanzkräftige Wettbewerber einen schweren Stand, um mit umfassend gebündelten Angeboten Schritt zu halten.

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