Internet provider Tiscali said talks with BSkyB over the sale of its UK assets have ended. Tiscali said it was “de facto impossible” to proceed with the discussions because of the impact of the continuing economic downturn. As a result, Tiscali said it would miss an interest payment on its debt as it seeks to […]
According to German press reports Deutsche Telekom is having chronic technical problems with its IPTV platform T-Home Entertain. News magazine Stern says internal documents show call centres and technicians are having to deal with a tidal wave of complaints. The main problem seems to be poor pictures with latency and drop outs with the disruption […]
UPC Broadband has announced a reorganisation and streamlining of its Central European operations. From the end of March the regional management group overseeing UPC’s six operating businesses in Hungary, Romania, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic will be closed down. The affected operating businesses will now report directly to Gene Musselman, President and COO […]
The DTG it is to conduct the UK’s first industry consultation into three-dimensional TV (3DTV). The consultation, which will open later this month, will ask the DTG membership of over 125 digital television broadcasters, platform operators, manufacturers and other stakeholders for their views on the technological feasibility and viability of 3DTV, and for their views […]
The Polish regulator UKE has awarded the DVB-H mobile TV licence to the Polish transmission company Info-TV-FM. Under the licence terms, the company will operate a DVB-H service in 31 towns and cities until 31st May 2015 and nationally from June 2015 until the end of 023. Info-TV-FM will have to pay PLN 15.105 million […]
The BBC and BFI (British Film Institute) are working together to develop plans for increasing public access to their respective audio, film and TV archives. This agreement draws on the opportunities presented by the development of digital technologies, in particular the expansion of the UK’s broadband infrastructure, which allows both the BBC and the BFI […]
Seven Media Group will take on Telstra and other Australian Internet service providers by selling a broadband internet connection with its TiVo digital set-top box from next month. The broadband service –which turns TiVo into an internet service provider – will be launched along with a movie library of more than 100 titles that customers […]
UK Media watchdog Ofcom has confirmed that April will see the first release of its broadband speed league table, which will reveal the real-world performance of UK ISPs. It will be based off the same system that allowed Ofcom to report the country’s average downstream speed of 3.6Mbps in January. ………….
NXP, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, has confirmed that its complete DVB-S2/MPEG-4 digital video recorder (DVR) set-top box solution has been incorporated in the latest Amstrad DRX780UK HD satellite receiver. Amstrad, now owned by BSkyB and the main supplier of its Sky+HD boxes, has selected NXP's high-definition H.264 chipset with DVB-S2 satellite front […]
Rising demand for complex multimedia-centric applications is forcing handset manufacturers to design increasingly smart‚ and highly personalised mobile devices. A report from Juniper Research forecasts that these so-called smartphones will account for 23 per cent of all new handsets sold per annum by 2013. Driving interest in smart phones will be the proliferation of online […]