Rovi Corporation (formerly Macrovision Solutions Corporation), announced that Pace is using the Rovi Connected Platform solution to enhance its next-generation set-top boxes for cable operators and service providers throughout the Americas. "We are committed to working with our customers in the service provider and cable markets to provide consumers with a cutting-edge entertainment experience that […]

Bridge Technologies, developers of the satellite-to-set-top box monitoring solution for IPTV operators, have announced that Tor Karstensen has joined the company as marketing and design executive. Karstensen will assume overall responsibility for the visual identity and branding of Bridge Technologies. Karstensen has a wide-ranging base of experience in visual branding and online presence development for […]

PCCW has reported its first-half net profit edged lower as revenue from telecommunications services declined due to the weakening Hong Kong economy. The dominant telco said its net profit for the six months ended June 30 was HK$654 million Hong Kong dollars ($83.8 million), down 0.3 per cent from HK$656 million a year earlier. Revenue […]

Mobile TV has so far failed to deliver on its promise of ubiquity, but analysts expect global user numbers to increase to 54 million in 2009. Analysts also predict that by 2013 there will be about 300 million people watching TV on the so-called 'third screen.' The study, conducted by In-Stat, revealed that mobile TV […]

YouTube co-founder and CEO Chad Hurley has becoming the "primary investor" for US F1, the motorsports team debuting in next year's season. Hurley tells Autosport.com: "I thought it was a great business opportunity and a good investment. I am definitely going to be involved in helping the team with sponsors, helping the team with business […]

BBC Worldwide has struck a deal to make hundreds of hours of content available via the UK online video service blinkbox. Popular titles on DVD, such as Top Gear, Gavin & Stacey, Spooks and Planet Earth, will cost users £1.89 (E2.19) an episode to download from which is still finalising what it will charge for […]

Warner Bros and Turner Broadcasting have made a joint deal with YouTube to put movie and TV clips on the popular video portal. The deal is aimed at driving digital sales of Warner movies and TV shows online, the company said. Links on some WB shows already on YouTube point users directly to the WBShop.com […]

Some readers of Entertainment Weekly next month will discover characters from US television programmes speaking to them from a wafer-thin video screen built into the page. The experiment – which is being conducted by CBS and Pepsi, card, will see the video starting once a reader turns the appropriate page. The cost of the full-motion […]

Investment analysts Piper Jaffray have predicted Apple will enter the TV market by 2011 with an Apple-branded television set with digital video recording and home media functions. “With the popularity of ad-based internet TV and subscription models, we believe a-la-carte (iTunes) video purchases have lost share against other video models in recent months. As such, […]

Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB), supplier of technology to the global digital television industry, is adding watermarking capabilities to its TV convergence solutions portfolio. ADB has integrated Civolution's VTrack watermarking technology into its digital TV set-top boxes, thus providing operators with further means of protecting content. …. ………….