Social TV: A integração entre a televisão convencional e as redes sociais

• Autor(a) principal: Paulo António da Silva Brandão
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/106258
• topic: Outras ciências da engenharia e tecnologias; Other engineering and technologies

The Broadcast television industry has undergone profound changes in recent years, being in a constant pressure in what concerns its own definition for the future. Causes for this situation are of different nature, notably economic. But it is the increasingly intense integration of television with the Internet, the responsible for the greatest tension and for the need of change in these recent years. Such integration is strengthened from year to year, due to the evolution of hardware and networks, increased processing of new SMART TVs, new services (IP video, etc.), and competition from new players in the market, namely, Youtube, Facebook Live and Netflix. The technological evolution allowed the quality of video streaming to increase, for resolutions up to now only available in professional environments (for example, 4k). Moreover, it allowed sending good quality video to mobile devices, deeply altering the form, the number of hours and the type of video/television consumption per day. One of the most striking consequences of this new reality is the gradual disappearance of the boundaries between multimedia and television. These profound changes provide great opportunities for the future. This study intends to deepen the related challenges, in particular, with regard to social networks, and identify/propose ideas and alternatives for the creation of technological solutions and new services that meet this new reality.