From David Del Valle in Madrid The future of the Spain’s largest pay-TV platform, Digital Plus, looks in doubt as subscriber numbers fall. The company, owned by Sogecable, controlled in turn by Prisa Group, lost 148,000 subscribers in the last 12 months with 70,000 of them in the second quarter of the year. The platform […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome Vodafone has launched an IPTV service in Portugal with more than 100 TV channels, of which eight are HD, which will be available free of charge until December for existing ADSL clients. From September, the service will be extended to the entire market. The monthly subscription to the triple-play package […]
AOL will this week unveil the early stages of a plan to become the Internet's largest provider of original content within two years. As the company prepares to spin off from Time Warner by the end of the year, Tim Armstrong, AOL chief executive and a former Google executive, is trying to identify market areas […]
SES Astra has closed a contract with ProSiebenSat1 for its German group of channels, German Free TV Group, for the transmission of three free TV programmes in High Definition. The channels Sat.1, ProSieben and kabel eins will be broadcast in HD via SES Astra's new HD+ service from January 2010. The programmes will continue to […]
During the recent board meeting of AEPOC, Europe's Anti-piracy association for the protection of encrypted works and services, AEPOC discussed the "Pirate Bay" sentence in Sweden and the election of the "Pirate Party" into the European Parliament. AEPOC views the "success" of the Pirate Party, which questions the concept of intellectual property and copyright, and […]
NET Serviços de Comunicação, Latin America's largest multi-service cable company, has selected Pace to deliver a new HD capable set-top box as part of its ongoing push towards a fully HD, digitised customer base. The low environmental impact (LEI) box uses Nagra and Open TV middleware to deliver content securely over the cable network and […]
Neptuny, the solution provider of recommendation engine for Digital TV, has become a member of the Microsoft Mediaroom Application Developer Programme. This programme is focused on the creation of applications that run on the Microsoft Mediaroom platform, helping service providers and third-party developers to develop persuasive and revenue-generating TV-based solutions.
Consumers continue to buy technology products to improve their lives, although the consumer electronics (CE) industry will see overall shipment revenues decline in 2009, according to data released by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). The semi-annual US Consumer Electronics Sales and Forecast shows that industry revenues will contract to $165 billion in 2009 but grow […]
Impala, the International MHEG Promotion Alliance, has announced Freeview Australia’s selection of MHEG-5 as the interactive TV middleware for the suite of free-to-air DTT channels that operate under the brand.
In-Stat says efforts to stop the 12 billion illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) downloads occurring annually in the US have come up short. In-Stat believes content owners and service providers need to shift from content protection to a two-pronged content monetisation strategy consisting of digital rights information management and offering a better user experience than illegal P2P […]