Toshiba has launched what it claims are the first 3D television sets that do not require special glasses. The two sets are able to create 3D effects in real time from standard film and television pictures. The sets use a special lenticular sheet to create an array of nine overlapping images. A viewer sees different […]
Entertainment brands creator and producer FremantleMedia has taken a 60 per cent share in @radical.media, a global transmedia business that creates advertising and branded entertainment content. The deal represents FremantleMedia’s first large scale move into the branded entertainment market, allowing the company to further diversify its revenue sources and to develop new business models. @radical.media’s […]
Kabel Deutschland (KDG), Europe’s largest cable company, is set to cut debt faster than markets expected and would like to absorb two smaller domestic rivals, according to Adrian von Hammerstein, chief executive. Rapidly improving sales of superfast broadband on top of basic cable television have given KDG sufficient cash flow growth to consider shareholder returns, […]
BT is launching a nationwide survey dubbed ‘Race to Infinity’ to see how much potential demand there is for optical fibre broadband. BT claims that this will identify “hot spots” where the demand for fibre is high. BT will have brought fibre broadband within reach of four million premises by the end of 2010, but […]
The Walt Disney Company has split up its underperforming Internet and gaming division bringing in two outsiders to lead the businesses. James A. Pitaro, vice president of Yahoo Media, and John Pleasants, chief executive of Playdom, the social gaming company that Disney bought in July, were named co-presidents of the Disney Interactive Media Group. Pitaro, […]
Cedar Point Communications, a worldwide leader in integrated Voice over IP (VoIP) switching technologies for service providers, has been selected by Argentina’s largest cable network operator, Telecentro, to expand its VoIP communications services to subscribers using the SAFARI C“ Multimedia Switching System. This network expansion will more than triple the capacity of the Safari C3’s […]
Portugal Telecom has added an interactive and a karaoke channel to its pay-TV service ‘Meo’. The interactive channel, called ‘TVI Secret Story’, enables viewers to watch everything that happens in the house 24/7 via four cameras placed in different rooms. Using the green button, users can select which camera feed they want to see, and […]
London-based satellite operator Inmarsat is a global success story, but for the past year or two its share price has benefited from a perceived move towards consolidation by Philip Falcone, the US hedge-fund boss. His company, Harbinger Capital owns just under 30% of Inmarsat, and it had been thought that Falcone’s intentions were to […]
Arion Technology, a leading Korean STB manufacturer is making surprising success in global biddings for major operators with new developed secured CA STB these days. Arion’s goal for 2011-2013 is 100% growth every year with 4-5 major customers like DishTV, Telmex and more than 30 operators with CA secured SD HD, PVR and Hybrid STB […]
At least two more potential bidders are interested in the 50 per cent of UKTV that the BBC does not own. Virgin Media is looking to sell its 50 per cent stake of the portfolio of channels, which includes popular British channels such as ‘Dave’, ‘Watch’ and ‘Gold’. BBC Worldwide is holding onto its 50 […]