The Coda Research Consultancy has released findings from its three month market and behavioural study of UK Video on Demand via TV and online. Coda’s project “Video on Demand: Behaviour and Trajectories” shows that the launch of Project Canvas, and the launch of an aggregated subscription based VOD service by the middle of 2010 will […]
A fifth of subscribers to Sky Movies – at least 891,000 UK households – hadn't watched a single movie on the service in an entire month, according to a YouGov survey on subscription movie viewing habits conducted on behalf of BT Vision. 50 per cent of Sky customers surveyed spend more than £45 (E50.6) on […]
Viacom is sympathetic to Time Warner’s “TV Everywhere” says CEO Philippe Dauman who said the company was “very open” to experimenting with models that would allow cable, satellite and telco TV subscribers to view cable content online. “We think it has to be seamless to the consumer, and we’re working [with the distributors] on the […]
ZillionTV is hoping to do for the set-top box market what Hulu has done for the PC. The startup, backed with content and investments from ABC/Disney, Fox, NBC/Universal, Sony and Warner Bros., has announced plans to offer ISPs a set-top box that will stream content to subscriber’s TVs. Customers will have the option to rent […]
Walt Disney Co was considering moves like creating a subscription-based online video club to capture online consumers as well as revenue that is being lost to piracy, Chief Executive Robert Iger said. Iger told analysts at the Deutsche Bank conference “We’ve also seen a pretty dramatic shift in how people consume entertainment with computers and […]
Internet companies in Britain are being asked to sign up to a new code of conduct for behavioural advertising, in an attempt to quell invasion of privacy concerns over the controversial marketing technology. The UK’s Internet Advertising Bureau has announced a set of guidelines for the systems, which have stirred up passionate reaction among civil […]
Adobe Systems and three Time Warner companies – Turner Broadcasting System, Warner Bros. and Home Box Office – have formed a strategic alliance to foster collaboration on the development of next generation video and rich media experiences. As part of the alliance, these companies will also collaborate to accelerate the development of digital rights management […]
Nagravision has been selected by China Network Systems (CNS) one of Taiwan's largest cable based television providers to protect the content rights and revenues of its new premium and high definition services. Nagrivision will start deploying its new generation smartcard in mid-2009. The Kudelski Group has expanded its already strong foothold in Taiwan, servicing all […]
Arris has debuted its ConvergeMedia family of products – a comprehensive portfolio of media application and distribution platforms designed to help operators address the unique challenges of media service delivery. The ConvergeMedia family enables operators to quickly and affordably offer On Demand and advanced advertising services that scale from small, centralised systems to the largest […]
Roku, maker of the popular Roku digital video player, has revealed that its customers can now watch movies and TV shows from Amazon Video On Demand. With Amazon Video On Demand, Roku customers can for the first time purchase or rent new release movies the same day they are released on DVD and watch commercial-free […]