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 […]
German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF plan to switch off their analogue transmissions on Astra on April 30th 2012, according to Carl Eugen Eberle, ZDF Director of Legal Affairs. Analogue television being completely discontinued on the date seems unlikely. Just 30 per cent of German cable households have so far made the switch to digital […]
"DTVs are competing with computers to be the entertainment hub of the home," says Brian O'Rourke, In-Stat analyst. "Sets with Internet connectivity are already commercially available in the US, Europe, and Japan. Models from Hitachi, LG Electronics, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Samsung, Sharp, and Sony can connect directly to the Internet without a home computer." Research by […]
A reluctance to force telecoms and cable operators to open their networks to competitors has led to the country being overtaken in rankings of broadband penetration and affordability, according to a study for the Federal Communications Commission. The study could strengthen expectations of change in the stance held by the FCC for much of this […]
The pay-TV industry will start to see success in advanced TV advertising beginning mid-2010, with US revenues topping $130 million by year-end, according to the new Parks Associates report Addressable, Interactive TV Advertising in the U.S. Consumer demand for time-shifted TV viewing on VOD and DVR service platforms, combined with the broad deployment of Canoe […]
More than a third of Australians admit they either illegally download movies off the Internet or have thought about doing so. A survey of consumers’ movie rental, downloading and pay TV viewing habits has revealed a significant slice of the population prefer accessing their entertainment through the back door. The national survey by DVD rental […]
Opera Software has joined the cross-industry consortium that is leading the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) initiative. The purpose of HbbTV is to harmonise the broadcast and broadband delivery of news, information and entertainment to the end consumer through set-top boxes and connected TVs. Opera's active support of this initiative will ensure the creation of […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid In the second quarter of the year pay-TV lost 120,000 subs, 90 per cent of them from the DTH platform Digital Plus and cable company ONO, according to the Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) Only IPTV operators Jazztelia TV and Telefonica's Imagenio achieved a slight increase their subscription base reaching […]
Channel 4 has signed a landmark deal with YouTube to make its TV shows available to users. The deal, which has been under negotiation for the last six months, will see Channel 4 make its existing 4oD online video catch-up service available via YouTube shortly after shows have aired on TV. YouTube users can watch […]
Sky has announced a deal that places Sky Player on set-top boxes made by IP Vision who's FetchTV hybrid DTT/IP STP has a built-in PVR, and offers BBC iPlayer, C 4 VOD, Sky Sports News, Discovery Channel and CNN. The box, called Freeview+ is priced at £219 (E237). While not significant in volume terms, the […]