Showtime Networks has developed an interactive TV (ITV) application that is transforming the way premium channels are marketed and sold. The Showtime Marketing Application uses ITV to bring together long form marketing video, remote ordering, and free full-length episodes of Showtime programming, in an easy to use interface. This new application creates an innovative way […]
UK set-top box firm Amino has purchased the MiriATE testing solution from Mirifice, which it intends to integrate into its existing facilities to provide accurate results from automated tests on its STBs. MiriATE will provide Amino with the ability to automatically drive large numbers of STBs through suites of various tests, including realistic endurance testing. […]
Dreampark, IPTV middleware provider, has revealed its first customer in Ireland as Irish IPTV and ISP provider Magnet Networks. Magnet has upgraded their existing middleware solution to Dreampark’s Dreamgallery, further strengthening the company’s position as a leading IPTV middleware provider in Europe.
Edgeware has confirmed that digital media systems specialist, ioko, has completed a successful lab trial with the Edgeware Web TV server. This trial was part of ioko’s assessment of caching and serving technologies for a range of new web video distribution services. Edgeware’s Web TV Servers cache and deliver up to 32,000 concurrent video streams […]
Data from BARB and SkyView has shown the impact of personal video recorders (PVRs) on the UK's TV viewing habits. The data for the first episode of this season's Lost, which aired in January on Sky One for example, shows that of the 1.6 million viewers, 53 per cent watched the show on a time […]
From Colin Mann in London Recent figures compiled for the Broadband Forum indicate that the Western Europe, Africa and Middle East regions showed strong IPTV growth of 45 per cent throughout 2008. The report, prepared for the Forum by industry analysts Point Topic, showed France as the largest IPTV market in the Western European region, […]
A Knowledge Networks study offers clear evidence that streamers and downloaders of TV network video have embraced – or at least accepted – advertising as an alternative to for-pay models. Eighty per cent of network video downloaders favour watching ads in exchange for free video, up from 67 per cent in 2006; and 69 per […]
Recent findings from broadband research consultancy The Diffusion Group (TDG) suggest that the appeal of widget-enabled TV and video systems will be far greater than many expect. As well, the range of widget-based applications demanded by consumers will quickly eclipse the basic 'information push’ apps to be featured on the first wave of widget-enabled TVs […]
Connected set-top boxes are growing in popularity, with 33 per cent of all U.S. broadband households interested in this platform, according to Parks Associates. The international research firm notes this news is good for service providers, which have this device at the core of their current service strategies. “The cable providers have a unique challenge […]
Research from Coda Research Consultancy estimates that UK Internet users watch at least £1.3 billion worth of video content a year through illegal file sharing, and that video rights owners are losing at least £100m a year in lost revenue. Year-on-year increases in these illegal behaviours are irreversible, but can be slowed through the launch […]