SeeSaw is aiming to launch in March, with content from partners including BBC Worldwide, Channel 4 and Channel Five. The service, built from the assets of the defunct Project Kangaroo video-on-demand venture, will start an invite-only trial this week. SeeSaw is hoping to build up the number of users for its trial over the course […]
Web video specialist Brightcove has developed a new system to help cable programmers launch “TV Everywhere” on-demand video services, either through their own portals or working in partnership with cable or telco operators. Consistent with the “TV Everywhere” concept the Brightcove system includes authentication technology to ensure that online viewers are already paying for the […]
BBC Worldwide, the main commercial arm of the BBC, should be split from the corporation and turned into a global communications company brand to promote and sell British television programmes around the world, a committee of the Lords has recommended. The Lords Committee on Communications wants part of Worldwide to be turned into a private […]
KabelKiosk, the digital channel platform for cable operators provided by the German subsidiary of Eutelsat, has announced the immediate launch of a new HDTV offer with the addition into the platform of the RTL HD and VOX HD channels of Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland. With their launch in KabelKiosk, RTL HD and VOX HD will be […]
No Easy Street in the East Once regarded as something of a ‘klondike’ for experienced media entrepreneurs and companies, Russia, the CIS and central Europe, has paid major dividends for a few, but for most has proved a complex and ever-changing challenge. Colin Mann looks at where the downturn has left media investments in the […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome Digital Terrestrial Television will replace the analogue signal on January 26 in so-called region D5 of Croatia (Istria and Primorje-Gorski Kotar County) where already 70 per cent of the population is prepared for its arrival. The analogue switch-off will involve the national broadcasters, although viewers in these areas will for […]
The Federal Communications Commission has voted to stop cable operators from withholding local sports channels from rivals in the US, potentially giving consumers more choice of pay-TV providers. Federal law requires cable operators to offer access to channels they partially or wholly own to rivals at reasonable rates. But the law includes a loophole that […]
Boxee has confirmed that it will soon offer pay content through its STBs. “We plan to release a Payment Platform this summer where users will be able to make purchases with one click on the remote. The content partners we launch with will offer shows, movies and channels that were previously not available to Boxee […]
Visiware, a worldwide publisher of games for pay television, has confirmed the availability of its interactive TV game services on TELUS Satellite TV, one of Canada's leading telecommunication companies, in the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. Visiware's game services – including up to 44 daily titles – can be accessed 24/7 via the Game […]
The Asian market for set top boxes (STB) is estimated to have seen over 40 per cent growth in shipments in 2009, according to In-Stat's market estimates. Meanwhile, the European market saw unit shipments slip 11 per cent in 2009. The North American market was up 2.5 per cent, primarily due to a temporary surge […]