With its 3D-ready satellites and teleports serving as the distribution backbone, SES World Skies, a division of SES, has announced it plans to join leading broadcasters, programmers, TV makers and technology providers in a series of extensive tests aimed at accelerating the delivery of 3D TV. Planned for this spring, the trials are expected to […]
Europe’s largest entertainment group Vivendi posted better-than-expected sales and operating profit for 2009, boosted by a buoyant performance at its games and telecoms divisions. But the owner of Universal Music Group, the world’s biggest record company that competes with EMI and Sony, said net profit was hit by a surprise provision for possible damages in […]
Online movie sales growth has slowed sharply in 2009. Screen Digest had forecast $360 milliom worth building on $219 million in 2008, but sales fell short at $291 million. The researcher doesn't believe it was recession but that demand just dropped off, not least because of the myriad of services with downloads that won't work […]
Global 3D television shipments will soar to 78 million units by 2015, rising at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 80 per cent from 4.2 million in 2010, iSuppli Corp. predicts. Revenue from shipments of these sets will boom to $64.3 million in 2015, up by nearly a factor of nine from $7.4 million […]
Convergence and innovation were the keys to success and record sales of Packs, Belgacom TV has stated. In 2009, the Belgacom Group reported a net profit of E904 million. Didier Bellens, CEO of the Belgacom Group said “Not only did we obtain many new customers, but existing customers remained loyal to us, despite the fierce […]
Cablevision has confirmed it will roll out its controversial remote storage digital video recorder in the US in April. When plans for the network-based DVR were first announced in 2006, several major programme owners sued the cable operator claiming it was illegal. Cablevision won the case on appeal and last June the US Supreme Court […]
The Kudelski Group, owner of Nagravision and OpenTV, has announced its 2009 annual results. Following the completion of the transition of selected large accounts to the service model in the first half 2009, the Kudelski Group delivered strong second half results, both in terms of top line and profitability. Total revenues including other operating income […]
UPC Ireland expects to begin offering 50Mb broadband services to homes around the country in August. The company’s chief executive, Robert Dunn, confirmed the expected launch date and added that a 120Mb service is likely to be made available subsequent to that. Dunn added that when launched, the 50Mb service will be available to about […]
Sirius XM posted strong Q4 results thanks to additional subscribers and severe cost cutting. Quarterly earnings came in at $14.2 million, up from a loss of $245.8 million a year earlier. More than 257,000 net new customers were added leaving Sirius to close the year with 18.8 million subs, slightly less than the 2008 number. […]
Brightcove, the online video platform, has made an agreement with Virgin Media to support short-form video content across Virginmedia.com. Virgin Media offers a range of online news, sports, music and entertainment content and will use the Brightcove platform to publish and distribute high quality, advertising-supported video across its website. The first Virgin Media brand to […]