Canal+ Group has followed suit with Sky and announced a major strategic partnership that will put the French pay-TV operator's content across all Microsoft's platforms. Initially the Xbox 360 will be enabled to receive the Canalplay VOD service and its Foot+ football offer. The one million owners of the Xbox in France will be able […]
The world’s highest profile file-sharing website, The Pirate Bay (TPB), has lifted the lid on its new video sharing website, The Video Bay. Billed as a rival to YouTube, the service will offer unrestricted video content, in violation of copyright. In April, a court in Sweden jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay and ordered […]
China's official news agency Xinhua, will launch an English-language tele¬vision news programme this week on screens in supermarkets and outside Chinese embassies in Europe, in a cautious first step towards spreading Beijing's view of the world to western audiences. The move, planned for Wednesday, comes six months after the Chinese government launched a plan to […]
Virgin Media and Universal Pictures are teaming up to launch PictureBox, a movies-on-demand TV subscription service. From July, the PictureBox service will be available to Virgin Media’s 3.6 million TV subscribers for £5 (E5.87) per month, and will provide a selection of recent and library feature films. Subscribers will be able to view films from […]
Eutelsat has confirmed the full commercial launch of Fransat, the new service giving satellite access in metropolitan France to all French free DTT channels. To receive Fransat, households can buy a labelled Pack comprising a decoder and a Fransat conditional-access smartcard. Packs are already available at typical points of sale for satellite TV (individual suppliers […]
NDS, provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, has teamed up with Pontis to integrate its Marketing Delivery Platform (MDP) with the NDS Unified headend. The integrated solution will enable digital pay-TV operators to up-sell and cross-sell services to their subscribers more effectively by giving them the ability to create real-time, personalised offers, promotions and […]
KIT digital, a global provider of IP-based video management technologies, and Akamai Technologies, specialist in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, have joined forces to deliver IP-Video across multiple mediums, including online, mobile networks and IPTV-enabled set-top boxes. The companies have signed a new strategic agreement which calls for them to build […]
The online web-based TV services of the four major US TV networks – ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox – together with Hulu, the joint venture between NBC, News Corp and Disney, accounted for a combined 53 per cent of an ad-supported US online TV market that generated $448 million in revenues in 2008. The remaining […]
Research from UK's Ofcom reveals that more viewers are taking greater control over the way they watch TV as the total number of digital video recorders sold in the UK has reached almost nine million (8.9 million). Its Digital Progress Report for the first quarter of 2009 showed that the number of digital recording devices […]
Almost half of all South Koreans subscribe to mobile TV services that enable users to view programmes, movies and other entertainment content via handheld devices according to industry data. TU Media, the country’s sole operator of satellite-based digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB), said the number of its subscribers topped 2 million as of last week, four […]