Quality of experience: a buzzword or the key to successful multimedia delivery across networks?

This paper looks at QoE as a means to successfully deliver multimedia content across networks. It briefly summarizes the current state of the art in QoE research and focuses on the problem of content categorization as a main requirement for a proper QoE management implementation. Furthermore, it looks at the impact of extended durations of audiovisual presentations as a typical application example (full movie length) and discusses how such presentations differ from short video clips in terms of perceived quality.