Telefonica’s IPTV platform Movistar Imagenio continues leading the growth in Spain’s pay-TV market in terms of subscribers, whereas Sogecable-owned DTH platform Digital Plus is losing most. According to the latest report from the Spanish Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT), Movistar Imagenio captured 140,000 new subscribers to 746,000 in the second quarter of the year. It was […]
Microsoft has confirmed an agreement with Canal Plus to deliver live programming to owners of Xbox 360 games consoles in France. French Xbox 360 owners will be able to utilise their console as a decoder for all Canal Plus premium channels, as well as a bouquet of CanalSat thematic channels. Users will also be able […]
“Mobile media usage continues to accelerate across the globe, driven by advancing technologies and the growing number of content options available to consumers,” said Mark Donovan, comScore senior vice president of mobile. “As we look across markets, dramatic differences in mobile media consumption, brand adoption and user behavior become evident. These differences are even more […]
Sonic Solutions has completed the acquisition of DivX. The addition of DivX brings widely deployed digital media technologies, an embedded CE footprint of over 300 million devices, a strong consumer brand, and a global market presence to Sonic’s expanding position as a supplier of services and technologies for the distribution of video content over the […]
Oregan Networks, provider of Internet media browser solutions for Digital TV, has been selected by Telefónica, a major international fixed and mobile telecoms operator, as the supplier of client-side middleware, powering OTT video deployments in Telefónica’s Spanish home market as well as other key geographies of Telefónica’s global footprint. The solution offered by Oregan will […]
Sezmi and YTL Communications, the Internet arm of YTL Corporation, Malaysia’s leading utilities and infrastructure company, have inked a partnership to launch Asia’s first converged intelligent TV and Internet service, which will provide wireless delivery of all consumer entertainment and communications services to homes and mobile devices in Malaysia by the end of 2011. The […]
Comedian Harry Hill unveiled a new online-only comedy series, “Harry Hill’s Little Internet Show” co-produced with ChannelFlip Media, the show will launch exclusively across the AOL network on October 15th. Each of the ten 5-minute bite size‚ episodes are shot in-and-around Harry’s holiday home in Whitstable and will feature all-new material created by Hill, specifically […]
Verimatrix has taken a commercial licence to Intertrust’s Marlin Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology. Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, will provide a complete Marlin Broadband solution as part of its MultiRights offering, integrated with its single security authority VCAS architecture. The solution includes support […]
Thomson Video Networks (formerly the digital headend division of Grass Valley) has revealed that Canal Satélite Digital, a division of Sogecable and Spain’s leading provider of satellite broadcasting services, has expanded its installation of Thomson Video Networks infrastructure to support the addition of two new HD transponders. Canal Satélite Digital, which broadcasts more than 100 […]
The BBC’s director general, Mark Thompson, has warned of the potential for “abuse of power” if News Corp is allowed to take full control of BSkyB. In an interview on a US TV channel in New York, the DG claimed the takeover of BSkyB by News Corp could lead to “a significant loss of plurality […]