ITV saw its revenues decline 14 per cent in the first three months of this year, and said it now intended to cut costs by a further £40 million (E46m) in 2010. The firm, which announced 600 job cuts two months ago, said revenues for the January to March period totalled £425 million, down from […]
Sony has reported its first annual loss in 14 years, after being hit by a big drop in sales. It reported a loss of $1.04bn for the year to the end of March. The company blamed the global downturn and the strong yen for the loss. Worldwide sales were down 12.9%. It had previously announced […]
BitTorrent has extended its dominance as the most popular file sharing application for unauthorised content, and while infringements in the US have dropped, Spain, Italy and France have surged, according to an annual report on digital piracy issued by BayTSP. The report is based on cumulative data from all of BayTSP's clients, which include movie […]
Statistics from Shanghai Telecom and Shanghai-based cable TV operator Oriental Cable Network (OCN) show that through the end of 2008 Shanghai had almost 800,000 IPTV subscribers and nearly 600,000 DTV subscribers. …
France’s Eutelsat, the world’s third-largest satellite operator, has raised its full-year revenue targets after posting a 5.6 per cent increase in third-quarter sales. The company said it now expected full-year sales of E925 million against E910 million previously forecast. The group had already raised its revenue guidance from E900 million to E910 million three months […]
TechniSat has launchesd a new HDTV product family incorporating environmentally conscious, energy saving technology. TechniSat Digital is one of the leading manufacturers of IDTVs, Set-Top-Boxes and digital TV reception equipment in Germany. The new HDTV 32 utilises a new energy saving power supply that allows a standby power requirement of just 0.2 watts.
Discovery Networks International, a division of media company Discovery Communications, is expanding its international portfolio of HD networks with the rollout of Discovery HD Theatre, launching on the Sky platform in Brazil this month. This is the first HD offering from Discovery to launch in Latin America, adding Brazil to the list of 30 markets […]
John Conlon, marketing controller of digital services for Virgin Media, is to leave the company after nine years. He was responsible for ensuring Virgin Media's range of digital content was made available via mobile and was heavily involved in the relaunch of the company's cross-network mobile portal in December
JDSU has introduced the Medium Range Optical Dispersion Measurement (MR-ODM) module for the T-BERD/MTS-6000 and -8000 platforms. The single plug-in module includes a patented solution for chromatic dispersion (CD) measurements and offers polarisation mode dispersion (PMD) and attenuation profile test functions, making it the industry's most compact and integrated dispersion solution dedicated to field testing […]
According to The NPD Group, watching movies and other video content on DVD and Blu-ray Disc comprises the lion's share of home-video acquisition and viewing, even as newer digital methods are beginning to gain a foothold in the consumer market. DVD and Blu-ray sales and rentals represented 88 per cent of consumer spending on home […]