Streaming TV Research Articles

Performance Testing Techniques for Live TV Streaming on STBs

In the realm of live TV streaming, performance testing is critical to ensure seamless delivery and optimal user experience on Set-Top Boxes (STBs). This paper presents a comprehensive exploration of performance testing techniques tailored for live TV streaming on STBs, focusing on methodologies, challenges, and best practices. With the growing demand for high-quality, uninterrupted live TV content, effective performance testing becomes imperative to address issues related to latency, buffering, and overall system reliability. The study begins with an overview of the unique performance challenges associated with live TV streaming on STBs. Unlike on-demand streaming, live TV requires real-time data processing and minimal latency to deliver a continuous viewing experience. The paper categorizes performance testing into several key areas: network performance, system resource utilization, and user experience. Network performance testing evaluates the efficiency of data transmission across various network conditions. Techniques such as bandwidth measurement, latency analysis, and jitter assessment are employed to simulate different network scenarios and determine their impact on streaming quality. These tests help in identifying bottlenecks and optimizing network configurations to support smooth streaming.

Leveraging Various Feature Selection Methods for Churn Prediction Using Various Machine Learning Algorithms

This study aims to examine the effect of customer experience on customer retention at DQLab Telco, using machine learning techniques to predict customer churn. The study uses a dataset of 6590 customers of DQLab Telco, which contains various features related to their service usage and satisfaction. The data includes various features such as gender, tenure, phone service, internet service, monthly charges, and total charges. These features represent the demographic and service usage information of the customers. The study applies several feature selection methods, such as ANOVA, Recursive Feature Elimination, Feature Importance, and Pearson Correlation, to select the most relevant features for churn prediction. The study also compares three machine learning algorithms, namely Logistic Regression, Random Forest, and Gradient Boosting, to build and evaluate the prediction models. This study finds that Logistic Regression without feature selection achieves the highest accuracy of 79.47%, while Random Forest with Feature Importance and Gradient Boosting with Recursive Feature Elimination achieve accuracy of 77.60% and 79.86%, respectively. The study also identifies the features influencing customer churn most, such as monthly charges, tenure, partner, senior citizen, internet service, paperless billing, and TV streaming. The study provides valuable insights for DQLab Telco in developing customer churn reduction strategies based on predictive models and influential features. The study also suggests that feature selection and machine learning algorithms play a vital role in improving the accuracy of churn prediction and should be customized according to the data context.

Analysis and Classification of Customer Churn Using Machine Learning Models

Analysis studies of customer loss (customer churn) have been used for years to increase profitability and build customer relationships with companies. Customer analysis using exploratory data analysis (EDA) to visualize data and the use of machine learning to classify customer churn are often used by past analysts. This study uses several machine learning models that can be used for customer churn classification, namely Logistic Regression, Random Forest, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Gradient Boosting, AdaBoost, and Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost). However, there is a class imbalance factor in the dataset, which is the biggest challenge that analysts usually face in achieving good results in the classification of machine learning models. The Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE) method is a popular method applied to deal with class imbalances in datasets. The results of the analysis show that the classification of churn customers using the XGBoost algorithm has the best level of accuracy compared to other algorithms, with an accuracy value of 0.829424, and the oversampling method with SMOTE tends to reduce the accuracy value of each classification algorithm. The Permutation Feature Importance (PFI) technique of the XGBoost model gets the result that tenure, monthly contracts, and TV streaming are the features that affect customer churn the most.

How <i>Pachinko</i> Mirrors Migrant Life: Rethinking the Temporal, Spatial, and Linguistic Dimensions of Migration

This paper critically analyzes the Apple TV+ series Pachinko (2022) to comprehend its cross-historical and cross-regional metanarrative unfolding from the organization of temporality, spatiality, and language. As the TV adaptation of Min Jin Lee’s eponymous novel, Pachinko depicts a family’s migration journey from Korea to Japan after the 1910s and emphasizes their suffering from systemic discrimination against temporary Korean residents. Produced by talents from Korea, Japan, and the United States, Pachinko displays strong hybridization that combines American TV conventions with a distinct East Asian culture and history. The hybridized, multicultural, and multilingual background of the production necessitates a transnational and interdisciplinary framework to analyze its critical success and cultural implications. Expanding Harvey’s notion of time-space compression, the paper conceptualizes the temporal and spatial experience of watching a transnational production via global streaming as a mirrored experience of migrant life. It tackles television dramas as a strategy to understand contemporary migration and globalization by first outlining the evolutionary trajectory of television, and then identifying the movements, mobility, and the transnational cultural flows in Pachinko. Moreover, this paper analyzes the linguistic aspects of Pachinko, particularly in translation and multilingualism, to establish a connection between language and cultural identities. Inquiring into previous literature on translation, this paper also seeks to understand the complexity of communicating in multiple languages, both literally and metaphorically. Finally, this paper examines how migration and migrants are reimagined in Pachinko at a time when national borders and cultural and linguistic barriers are quickly eroded by global streaming TV.

A taxonomy of technology design features that promote potentially addictive online behaviours

Gaming disorder was officially recognized as a disorder of addictive behaviour in the International Classification of Diseases 11th revision in 2019. Since then, other types of potentially problematic online behaviour have been discussed as possible candidates for inclusion in the psychiatric nosography of addictive disorders. Understanding these problematic online behaviours requires further study of the specific psychological mechanisms involved in their formation and maintenance. An important but underdeveloped line of research has examined the ways in which technology design features might influence users’ capacity to exert control over how they engage with and use websites and applications, thereby amplifying uncontrolled, and perhaps addictive, use. In this Review, we critically examine the available research on the relationships between technology design features and the loss of control and harms experienced by those who engage in online video gaming, online gambling, cybersexual activities, online shopping, social networking and on-demand TV streaming. We then propose a theory-driven general taxonomy of the design features of online applications that might promote uncontrolled and problematic online behaviours. Developments in information and communication technologies have substantially changed daily life. In this Review, Flayelle et al. formulate a theory-driven taxonomy that explains how the design features of online applications might lead to problematic usage patterns based on reinforcement learning and behavioural control theories.

The impact of labor division on audiovisual translation consistency - a study of streaming TV series

The aim of the paper is to investigate the impact of labor division on translation consistency and quality in a streaming TV series by comparing Polish subtitles and voice-over. The study scrutinizes the translations of three series – Santa Clarita Diet, Orange Is the New Black and Insatiable – prepared using three labor division patterns: (1) translators change between seasons, (2) different translators prepare the subtitles and voice-over simultaneously, (3) several translators are assigned individual episodes of one season. The results are varied and depend on the division pattern. When translators change between seasons, there seems to be little to no difference in quality or consistency. When translators work simultaneously and independently on two modes, inconsistencies are likely to happen, and they could be detected if the audience switches between the modes when watching. Humour, register and vulgarity visibly vary between the translations, which can also potentially influence the reception of the translations. When different translators prepare individual episodes within the same mode, consistency suffers, and quality fluctuates. The results also reveal the beneficial effect of translator communication on consistency and quality.

Virtual Tour Univeristas Bina Darma Berbasis Android

Bina Darma University is one of the private universities located in the city of Palembang. In providing information about the institution, Bina Darma University has used several methods, including websites, brochures, TV streaming, radio and social media such as Instagram and Facebok. However, from several existing media, it turns out that it still doesn't provide information about the location of the room and also the places around the campus. In this case, researchers are interested in making an information media application to introduce the area around the campus by using virtual tour technology with Android-based mobile technology with an offline system so that it will be easier, because it can be accessed using smartphones or other android-based gadgets without a connection. Internet. The applications used in the manufacture of Andoid applications are Unity 3D. The development method used in building this virtual tour application of the MDLC (Multimedia Development Life Cycle).
 Keywords: Virtual Tour, Unity 3D, Mobile, Android, MDLC

Does Streaming TV Change Our Concept of Television?

ABSTRACT With Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+, many television users have adopted video on Demand (VOD) within a few years. What is better known as streaming TV today has no fixed program schedule and contains virtually no political information. Does that affect our concept of what role television plays? In a standardized survey, we compared streaming and linear television users. We found structural differences in viewing motivation and consumption of information. However, we did not find television losing its role as an information medium. We conclude that streaming television is no revolution but suits television into the 21st century.

Brand Experience, Its Antecedents and Its Effects on Brand Loyalty in Online TV Streaming Platforms: The Mediation Effect of Brand Attitude and Brand Preference

Online TV streaming platforms are emerging markets. The assessment of customer-brand relations and brand experiences on these platforms will be useful in developing, testing structural models, and examining the indirect-direct effects on brand loyalty. This study aims to determine brand experiences’ antecedents and the effects on brand attitude, brand preference, and brand loyalty in terms of online TV streaming platforms. In addition, attempts to provide a different perspective to brand experience models by testing different mediation effects of brand attitude and brand preference. This study proposes a comprehensive model based on a sample consisting of 389 consumers, who are members of at least one online TV streaming platform, and the data, which was collected with an online survey. According to the findings, which were obtained after the structural equation modeling and mediation analyses, self-brand connection has an effect on brand experience dimensions. “Feel”, “act”, “think” and “relate” dimensions have an effect on brand attitude; “sense”, “act”, “think” and “relate” dimensions have an effect on brand loyalty, and “sense”, “feel” and “think” dimensions have an effect on brand preference. Additionally, brand attitude has an effect on brand preference. Both brand attitude and brand preference have an effect on brand loyalty. Finally, the mediation effects of brand attitude and brand preference have been supported.

Double Trouble: Gender Fluid Heroism in American Children’s Television

Abstract Gender fluidity makes only rare appearances on North American television, and remains almost completely absent from programming for children. In contrast, transgender characters are making inroads into mainstream North American TV for adults. Still, media depictions of transgender people in the late 1990s and early 2000s have largely shown them as aberrations, having illegible and/or unstable identities, joining mainstream Euro North American society which tends to medicalize and pathologize transgender identities. Thus, too often the representation provided serves only to reinforce binaries by making the character exceptional and noting their unconventionality, or to highlight gender fluidity as a problem. Examining the animated streaming TV series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018–2020), we use scholarship on gender fluidity to critique the show’s representations of genders in addition to and beyond male and female. Looking at She-Ra through this lens, the show challenges assumptions about princesses, villains, helpers, and heroes. Ultimately transgressing traditional categories, the princesses and their allies, in their own distinct embodiments and self-presentations, use their differing magical and other skills to fight enemies in the Evil Horde to protect their planet, Etheria.

Artistic reality of the TV series “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”

This article analyzes the artistic reality of the popular TV series “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”. There author discusses the feedback of the viewers, including negative. The question is raised on the reasons of its series, as in terms of rigorous analysis it seems mosaic and contradictory. The article explores the artistic techniques (split mind of the hero, bringing modern problems to the past, which create the artistic reality). It is demonstrated that the TV series enjoys popularity namely for representation of the modern problems and situations, despite the use of historical records. Following the logic of comedy-drama streaming TV series, its creators my Sherman-Palladino and Rachel Brosnahan readjusted all historical and non-historical themes and plotline so it would be entertaining for the audience, rather than give knowledge of history. The reality of the series is not a stand-up story based on the example of Mrs. Maisel, but the artistic reality in the comedy-drama genre. Detailed analysis is conducted on the techniques of depicting split personality of the hero, as well as presentation of the actor’s personal life and problems as a skillful acting. The author wonders whether the TV series “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” reflects rather the structure of the mosaic mentality of the modern viewer, oriented towards entertainment and aesthetic experiences than the knowledge of life. At the end of the research, the author discusses how the producers managed to create a holistic and organic artistic reality of the TV series.

The Effect of Antecedents on Online Streaming Subscription on Vidio Companies

As the time goes by and by the developing technologies, there are much shifting conditions because of that development, including in the media industry. Technologies bring ease and options. The increasing options may bring factors that can influence customers in choosing whether to use cable TV or an online streaming platform for their entertainment. Based on research by Lee et al (2018), there are factors which can affect customer decision about choosing cable TV or online streaming platform. Those factors are ease of use, additional purchases, media options, social trends, available options, and cost.

‘Just ask “what if?” and go from there’: the role of mainstream story structures in women’s web series script development

ABSTRACT This article investigates, through interviews, the script development processes of four female-identifying web series creators, contributing to scholarship around web series’ ability to serve diverse communities [Christian 2020. “Beyond Branding: The Value of Intersectionality on Streaming TV Channels.” Television & New Media 21 (5): 457–474; 2011. “Fandom as Industrial Response: Producing Identity in an Independent Web Series.” TWC – Transformative Works and Cultures, 8, ‘Race and Ethnicity in Fandom’ special issue; Monaghan 2017. “Starting From … Now and the Web Series to Television Crossover: An Online Revolution?” Media International Australia 164 (1): 82–91; Williams 2012. Web TV Series: How to Make and Market Them. Harpenden: Kamera Books], but from the perspective of the writing process. The three web series making up this small sample – Last Breath (2018), Love Songs (2019) and Phi and Me (2019-) – have all experienced notable levels of ‘success’ (defined here variously in terms of views, festival selections, and awards). This article offers a preliminary investigation into how women’s web series writing practices may – or may not – depart from conventions that are practiced in mainstream settings of episodic script development, and/or are circulated by the screenwriting ‘how-to’ market. Using the insights into these writing processes, this article builds upon web series scholarship (where, it has been argued, innovations around diversity are leading the way in terms of screen content and distribution) by exploring the extent to which gender and cultural diversity, platform and standardised story structures inform the script development processes.

Selection of the type of cooling for an overclocked Raspberry Pi 4B minicomputer processor operating at maximum load conditions

The Raspberry Pi is a computer platform that is widely used in education, has a very large community and extensive documentation. Therefore, it can be a good and cheap alternative to a traditional computer, a TV streaming device or a console for less demanding games. In the case of observing a lower efficiency of the microcomputer, one of many possibilities of improvement, which this device offers is overclocking the processor. It is associated with a proper selection of parameters (voltage, clocking) and software in order to achieve the highest possible performance of the dedicated Raspbian system. However, increasing the work efficiency causes the temperature rise up to the limit values. Therefore, an appropriate, i.e. effective, kind of cooling should be applied. Taking all these circumstances into account, an experiment was developed in which temperature measurements were taken during the maximum processor load on all cores at the clock setting that enabled reaching the highest performance. During the research three cases were considered: without the use of cooling, with passive cooling and with active cooling. The results showed that only the use of active cooling clearly improves the operating conditions of the device, due to lowering the temperature by about 16°C compared to the situation without cooling or with the use of a passive radiator.

Trump Time, Prophetic Time and the Time of the Lost Cause

SH: During the COVID-19 lockdown, Emily; her husband, Richard Cone; and I have been streaming TV series and then discussing the episodes via FaceTime three times a week. We’ve watched a variety of ...

AREAS OF INVESTMENT IN OMANI SPORT

Omani sport is still searching for new methods to identify its problems and achieve a vision regarding the economic problems in sport, the short-term solutions to revitalize it, and long-term solutions to maintain its stability. It hopes to rise and find an end to its funding problems in order to take off toward international winners’ podiums, especially after the good results achieved lately in several sports. Therefore, the researcher deems it necessary to identify the areas of investment in Omani sport, as potential for investment in the presence of self-finance that covers its financial needs. The researcher used the descriptive method as it is suitable to the nature of the study, and a sample of 273 subjects representing the research population. He used a questionnaire as a data collection instrument, and rank, frequency, percentage in statistical treatment. The main finding of the research was a list of the areas of investment in Omani sport in the following order: launching sports channels, TV streaming, sports professionalism, establishing sporting camps centers, academies of different games, and investment in sporting facilities. The main recommendations were to authorize Omani sporting authorities to launch TV channels to stream their matches, be based on competition with each other, and according to the rules stipulated by the Ministry of Sports Affairs and the Public Authority for Radio and Television

Distributing CanCon: CBC strategies for international distribution

This article tackles the evolution of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation international distribution strategies at the intersection of the contemporary television landscape, by providing a context and definition for Canadian content (CanCon) rules, so as to consider more recent debates on the positioning of foreign streaming services in Canada in relation to existing broadcasting companies. The aim is to problematize media policies, by outlining the present state of the debate and updating the conversation to include global streaming TV players. Key questions are explored, such as whether CanCon rules are outdated forms of cultural protectionism or still represent viable answers to the risks of media imperialism.

Silicon Photonics for Microwave Applications: Programmable Filters and Beamformers

The past few decades have shown great advancements in wireless communication systems; however, today's explosive increase in data traffic demands even further improvement in such systems toward next-generation platforms. Current 4G mobile systems provide stationary users with data speeds up to 1 Gbit/s and high-mobility users with speeds up to 100 Mbit/s for mobile online access and multimedia applications such as TV streaming, video conferencing, navigation, high-end gaming, high-definition video streaming, and high-performance imaging [1].

Correlates of screen time and mediators of differences by parental education among adolescents

BackgroundExisting literature shows that there is an inverse association between socioeconomic position and screen time among adolescents. What is less known is the mechanism behind these differences. The study aimed to explore individual, interpersonal and neighborhood environmental correlates of total screen time (TST) among adolescents and to assess their mediating role in the association between parental education and TST.MethodsA cross-sectional study including 706 adolescents (mean age of 13.6 (SD = 0.3)) was used to collect data at schools through an online questionnaire. Multiple regression analyses were used to explore factors associated with TST. Mediation analyses were conducted to assess whether these factors mediated the association between parental education and TST.ResultsMultiple linear regression analyses, adjusted for gender and age, showed that parental modelling of TV and movie streaming, TV/movie streaming during dinner and access to screens were positively related to TST. Self-efficacy towards limiting TV and movie streaming, self-efficacy towards limiting computer/electronic game use, and the perceived opportunities for physical activity in the neighborhood were inversely related to total screen time. All of these factors except self-efficacy towards limiting TV and movie streaming mediated the association between parental education and TST.ConclusionsThe study identified several modifiable factors at the individual, interpersonal and neighborhood environmental levels that can be targeted in interventions aimed at decreasing screen time among youth in general and among those with a low socioeconomic position in particular.

Beyond Branding: The Value of Intersectionality on Streaming TV Channels

This article argues that independent TV channels releasing narratives of intersecting identities innovate in the organization and technological dissemination of representations, specifying cultural production in ways that more fully value communities in the United States and at times abroad. Through interviews with founders of ten currently running and defunct independent channels, I show how the value of intersectionality is not simply in branding corporate channels or supplying them with new narratives but also in critiquing and reinventing industrial practices to accommodate communities historically excluded from the system. These indie channels allow scholars to see the work of development itself, chronically understudied despite its rapid expansion through net-neutral web distribution and its legacy as the process from which all TV shows emerge.