OTT video partnerships could provide benefits to pay-TV providers

Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX), Hulu and other over the top (OTT) continue to draw the ire of pay-TV and broadband providers alike, but Virgin Media's (Nasdaq: VMED) move to set up a Netflix app on its Virgin Media TiVo service illustrates the emergence of what Jim Barthold, Editor of FierceIPTV, calls "blended TV." Despite resistance from traditional pay-TV providers, Jim talks about how IP-enabled TV entertainment platforms seem to be inevitable in his latest Editor's Corner. Read more