A surge in the conversion of secondary TV sets boosted the total number of UK digitally-enabled TV sets to 80 per cent by the end of June 2009 (up by seven percentage points in three months), according to Ofcom. There are currently around 60 million TV sets in the UK. Ofcom's Digital TV Progress Report […]
Tony Ball, the former Sky chief offered the job of chief executive of ITV almost a month ago, has pulled out of the process. ITV said in a statement that its executive chairman Michael Grade, who was to become non-executive, will leave the company once a new non-executive chairman has been appointed, a process it […]
Set top boxes for Project Canvas, the IP catch-up TV initiative from the BBC, ITV, Five and BT, are scheduled to be available in shops by December of next year. Richard Halton, IPTV programme director at the BBC, confirmed that, barring regulatory problems, the first Project Canvas set-top products “will be on sale by Christmas […]
Sky has revealed that the Sky Player will be made available to UK Xbox 360 owners in October. The new service will grant Xbox owners access to live television, as well as movies and on-demand content. It will be available to Xbox Live Gold members, and Sky subscribers with certain movie or sports packages will […]
Foxtel CEO Kim Williams, has announced that the company – Australia's number one subscription television provider – will launch 30 additional channels this year. Along with the new channels will come a state-of-the-art online television service, significant technological upgrades to Foxtel's television guide and new channel packages. 'Foxtel Next Generation' will launch on November 15th […]
Lord Mandelson has repeated that illegal filesharing posed a threat to Britain’s creative industries and it was vital for such industries to be allowed to flourish, but emphasised filesharers could have their Internet connections cut off for short periods, but only as a last resort. ISPs had reacted angrily to Mandelson's enthusiastic support for the […]
Telefonica plans to commercially launch an IPTV video-on-demand service in Argentina in March 2010. The service will be based on its Speedy broadband technology. Expected to compete with Cablevision’s pay-per-view offering, the VOD service content will include movies, series, children’s content, documentaries and music concerts. The service will initially be available to Telefonica’s Speedy subscribers […]
Next-generation Interactive Programme Guides (IPG) are emerging that help consumers wade through a proliferation of TV programmes, movies, concerts and sporting events. As Internet Content and User Generated Content (UGC) migrate onto TVs and other video-capable devices, IPGs are transforming into Content and Service Discovery Guides (CSDGs), reports In-Stat. “A truly valuable CSDG will be […]
IPTV technology solutions provider BNS has signed a five-year exclusive contract with Max Media, Taiwan's largest in-building broadband service provider, to build and deploy community-based IPTV services. The contract will see BNS supply complete IPTV turnkey solutions including network, equipment, software, content, and system integration, maintenance and support services in residential complexes including high-end estates, […]
According to projections from SNL Kagan, the market for high-definition televisions is expected to pick-up in the second half of 2009 and maintain momentum into 2010. SNL Kagan projects 2009 HDTV sales will reach 29.0 million units, up from an estimated 26.2 million in 2008, as consumers react to lower average retail prices for HDTV […]