Three people have been arrested in the north-eastern Athens suburb of Aghia Paraskevi on suspicion of breaking the encryption codes used by the Greek digital satellite pay-TV platform Nova and offering free viewing to tens of thousands of people around Greece. The three men are alleged to have sold to their clients, for a one-off […]
SES Astra, an SES company, has entered into a partnership with Italian broadcast and network service provider Milano Teleport to offer capacity from its 23.5 degrees East orbital position to Italian broadcasters. 23.5 degrees East is SES Astra's increasingly attractive orbital position offering high quality coverage of the Italian market. Milano Teleport intends to use […]
Eutelsat Communications has confirmed the signature of a far-reaching contract concluded between its Skylogic broadband affiliate and SFR, one of the leading telecommunications operators in France. SFR has selected Tooway to meet demand for broadband from its customers beyond ADSL coverage. Called the ‘Satellite Internet Pack’ the new service supplied by SFR wuses capacity on […]
Users of the Apple iPhone are among the heaviest users of digital content and are also more willing than any other consumer to pay for a wide range of types of content, according to findings in this year’s Olswang Convergence Survey. iPhone users are heavy users of services such as on-demand TV – not only […]
Six local Internet service providers made nearly 2 billion won ($1.7 million) by selling pirated copies of films and broadcast materials during the June-November period, a government report on a nationwide digital piracy crackdown has revealed. South Korea, often criticised for its loose enforcement of anti-piracy laws, pledged to get tougher on digital theft following […]
Sixty nine per cent of key media figures are currently experiencing difficulty funding their productions, according to an online survey conducted by business and financial adviser Grant Thornton. The survey also revealed that 85 per cent of respondents do not have all of their content tied up with one distributor, indicating the growing need to […]
Virgin Media has launched dynamic advertising on its on demand TV platform. Ads from brands including L’Oreal, Sony Ericsson, Kelloggs and Microsoft, will appear around on demand content from Living, Virgin1 and Bravo. Advertising will roll-out across Virgin Media's on demand TV service, currently in 3.7 million households, beginning with 300,000 homes from this month. […]
Traditional Video-on-Demand services, and traditional “siloed” video services currently use a great deal of proprietary, or industry-specific, equipment. Market research firm, In-Stat sees traditional and pay TV service providers migrating to more efficient Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and data centre models based on server virtualisation. This migration enables content portability and will have a direct […]
Project Canvas – a joint technology venture between the BBC, ITV, BT and Five that could bring on-demand programming to Freeview and Freesat – is unlikely to be rolled out until 2011 because it is mired in a complicated approval process. Erik Huggers, head of future media and technology at the BBC, warned that delays […]
BBC Worldwide will be allowed to acquire Virgin Media’s 50% stake in pay-TV joint venture UKTV to help secure the financial future of Channel 4, despite a ban on all other merger and acquisition activity imposed by the BBC Trust. Sir Michael Lyons, the BBC Trust chairman, outlined a tighter remit for BBC Worldwide that […]