Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has said to expect more Internet streaming deals to come from the movie rental company – both for content and for gadgets that help play back streaming videos onto TVs. In terms of content, Hastings said the company would continue to invest in new movies and TV series, especially via deals […]
NDS Group has entered into a multiyear licensing agreement for Macrovision Solutions’ electronic programme guide patents. Under the agreement, NDS will be able to offer licensed EPGs to its pay-TV platform operator customers in specified countries. “We believe operators will benefit from having the option to license Gemstar’s EPG patents alongside NDS’ own leading technology […]
Dolby has launched Dolby Direct Distribution Services – a pan-European satellite content delivery network for digital cinemas. The service is provided in association with Arqiva and uses satellite to distribute feature movies, trailers, and advertising content direct to their participating exhibitors and cinemas throughout Europe. Dolby Direct Distribution Services will simplify the cinema distribution process, […]
Velocix, provider of a digital asset delivery network, has announced that Televeo is using its digital delivery services to stream premium content. With Velocix, Televeo is able to ensure high performance, scalable delivery of video content from National Geographic, Fox and other leading publishers. Using the H.264 codec in conjunction with the Velocix Video Flash […]
Cisco and Avail Media have announced an agreement that will help enable service providers to easily, quickly and cost-effectively offer IPTV services to their subscribers using an innovative solution that combines the Cisco IP Next-Generation Network (IP NGN). The solution is designed to help service providers meet the challenges of transforming themselves from voice and […]
To extend the range of creative opportunities available to brands through TV advertising, Sky is launching Green Button advertising, a service which allows viewers to easily watch and access extended – or long form‚ advertising. Built on the same underlying technology as the Green Button programme reminder service, advertisers will be able to encourage viewers […]
Screen Digest forecasts that the global pay TV set-top box (STB) market will peak within the next four years, reaching annual shipments of 127 million units in 2012, before the market declines in 2013. The continuing thrust by pay TV operators to convert their customers from analogue to digital and upgrade them to high definition […]
RealNetworks has said it wants to help increase DVD sales by allowing people to copy their movie discs. Hollywood studios say that idea will only hurt their already struggling business. The two sides are now squaring off in federal court. The case is ostensibly about RealDVD, a $30 software program that allows users to save […]
SES has reported a 12.2 per cent rise in its first-quarter core profit, maintained its full-year forecast and said it signed a E2 billion credit facility. SES, the world’s second-largest satellite operator, said that EBITDA rose to E308.9 million. SES repeated its forecast of revenue growth between 3 per cent and 4 per cent on […]
Nordic telco TeliaSonera has revealed that it added 32,000 IPTV subscribers in the first quarter of 2009 across all its markets, including 9,000 new customers in Sweden alone, to reach a new total of 509,000.