Internet TV start-up ZillionTV insists that it will one day launch a commercial service, but that won’t happen until the second half of next year, at the earliest. When ZillionTV first began touting its ‘personalised television service’ in March, the California firm said it would team up with Internet service providers to market the product, […]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt believes publishers of general news would find it hard to charge online because too much free content is available. Schmidt said he could, however, imagine niche providers of content such as business news succeeding in this area. Schmidt was responding to Rupert Murdoch's stated intent to start charging for news content […]

Pre-roll online video advertising is proving to be the most accepted form of advertising according to German magazine publisher Burda Community Network (BCN). A study into the perceptions of online video advertising revealed one in four respondents (23 per cent) say they are 'extremely bothered' by traditional TV advertising compared to the one in eight […]

Market research firm Infonetics Research has completed its second quarter IPTV, Cable, and Satellite Video Equipment, Services, and Subscribers report. “Slow but steady IPTV and cable video subscriber growth in North America, Europe, and Asia, led by AT&T, Verizon, Belgacom, Swisscom, Telus, and KPN, helped boost the equipment market in the second quarter, particularly IP […]

The pay-TV group is in talks with media agencies about offering 3D ads to run on its new 3D platform, which will incorporate advertising capabilities. Sky said: “Although it’s still very early days, we anticipate there being a range of exciting new creative opportunities for advertisers. As we prepare to launch a commercial service next […]

More than 70 per cent of New Zealand youth would stop accessing illegal versions of copyrighted material if they received a notice from their ISP, a survey has found. Research firm Synovate found that a notice from their ISP would be enough to stop 71 per cent of young people further accessing illegal copies of […]

Jonathan Sykes has left his role as managing director of Tiscali TV, the IPTV service acquired by The Carphone Warehouse. Sykes held the role of managing director, content strategy at HomeChoice, the IPTV service that is the basis of Tiscali TV.

The BBC’s plan to offer Channel 4, ITV and Channel Five the free and open use of its iPlayer online video technology has been blocked by the BBC Trust because it will not deliver value to licence-fee payers. Open iPlayer, originally dubbed Project Marquee, was intended to create a “federation of on-demand public service broadcasting […]

Canal+ and Internet movie information specialist AlloCiné have signed a deal to promote video on demand on the French market. By the end of the month, CanalPlay, the platform for downloading videos at the request of Group Canal + will be available on the new site Allociné. CanalPlay is currently the only platform for VOD […]

Taiwan’s Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) has completed a draft proposal for the release of two national mobile TV operating licences in Taiwan in 2010, according to AN Economic Daily News report. The government will be neutral on the adoption of either DVB-H or Media FLO developed by Qualcomm broadcasting technology, the paper noted. […]