Netflix and LG Electronics will soon introduce TV sets that can screen Netflix movies directly from the Web without an external box. Netflix, which is seeking to equip all home-entertainment screens with instant movie-viewing capability, also announced other partnerships, including one with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 to embed the movie software in its game consoles. Netflix […]
ITV's year end review of acquisitions has determined it will have to write down the value of Friends Reunited. Analysts argue the company could have made the contact site a leader in social networking but, instead, its audience has halved from 4.3m beween 2007 and 2008. ITV paid £175m (E220m) in 2005 for the business.
State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has launched IPTV services for its customers in the Haryana circle, in a bid to hold on to its falling landline subscribers. BSNL launched the service in Gurgaon, Faridabad and Ambala in association with Smart Digivision. The wireline subscriber base decreased to 38.05 million in the month of November […]
Hong Kong television station TVB has launched CMMB technology tests in Hong Kong, in cooperation with the State Administration of Radio Film and Television’s (SARFT) Academy of Broadcasting Planning and Beijing-based CMMB equipment manufacturer Wiflare Technology. Wiflare is responsible for constructing the CMMB system, with broadcasts from Temple Hill to cover Hong Kong Island, Kowloon […]
The Al Jazeera Network and Sony Ericsson have formed a new partnership that will bring headline news straight to mobile phones. Headline news will be available in both English and Arabic. Several Sony Ericsson handheld devices currently on the market in the MENA region will have an Al Jazeera RSS feed preinstalled. Owners of the […]
Adobe Systems and Intel have revealed plans to collaborate on the development to port and optimise Adobe Flash technology for the Intel Media Processor CE 3100. The result is expected to provide consumers with richer and more seamless Web-based and video viewing experiences through advanced Intel-based cable set-top boxes, Blu-ray Disc players, digital TVs and […]
Enensys Technologies and GoldSpot Media have successfully integrated their solution to enable Mobile TV service providers to deploy targeted and interactive advertising in DVB-H. Enensys DVB-H head-end technology and GoldSpot's Cue Zones ad solution help Mobile TV service providers develop predictable and profitable advertising business cases to supplement subscription revenues. ………….