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 […]
A report from Juniper Research warns that, while its best case forecasts estimate that the mobile entertainment market will reach nearly $36 billion in 2010, revenue growth will be markedly lower if the global recession fails to bottom-out over the next twelve months. Using a scenario-based approach to assess the impact of the recession on […]
Howard Stringer, Sony chief executive officer, will replace Ryoji Chubachi as president in a move to give the C.E.O. a freer hand in restructuring the struggling electronics giant. Mr. Stringer, 67, will retain his existing title of chairman and C.E.O., Sony said in a statement. Chubachi, 61, will become vice chairman responsible for product quality […]
John Linwood, who left his senior executive role at Yahoo last month, will join the BBC as its new chief technology officer. Linwood will be responsible for maintenance of the corporation’s technical infrastructure and new corporate IT requirements. Chief technology officer is a new role at the BBC, created as part of a restructure of […]
Antenna Hungária and TechniSat Digital have started a strategic partnership supplying DVB-T MPEG-4 HD digital terrestrial set-top-box from May 2009. The TechniSat box will join the MinDig TV sticker system as well, as the receiver was specially developed according to the technical requirements of Antenna Hungária. Antenna Hungária has won the tender for both digital […]
Selevision, an EMEA IPTV system integrator and Anevia, a video service infrastructure provider, have been selected by Aramco to deploy their state of the art SD/HD video over IP solution in the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). With a 20,000-people-residency capacity, KAUST aims to become one of the most prestigious and innovating […]
Shares in Premiere slumped as it emerged its former owner Leo Kirch had won the rights to market Bundesliga football for the next six years. Kirch, now aged 81, saw his media empire implode in 2002 in Germany's then largest bankruptcy. Kirch is still suing Deutsche Bank for E1.6 billion over the collapse of his […]
Experts predict a weak economic atmosphere through 2010. With this in mind, Frost & Sullivan revised the previous year’s growth forecast of a 3-year CAGR 29 per cent downwards to less than 15 per cent. “A disappointing IPTV performance is not the end of the road for Telecom incumbents but it has spurred new service […]
Just as Comcast and other Pay TV operators have announced plans to push high-value cable network programming to the PC, research from TDG suggests that their intention to not charge for this content could be a major strategic error and leave hundreds of millions in additional fees on the table. "Cable operators are working aggressively […]