Fibre-optic service providers for Internet, TV and phone services scored tops overall in Consumer Reports’ latest survey of telecom services in the US. Verizon FiOS and AT&T U-verse, whose networks are fibre-optic based, received top scores for Internet and TV service and were among the better phone providers. Consumer Reports’ survey also found that satellite […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has published three video-related market share and forecast reports: Video Infrastructure and Subscribers, Set-Top Boxes and Subscribers, and Video Services and Subscribers. Hignlights of the report include: – Worldwide set-top box (STB) revenue dropped 6 per cent in 3Q09 from 2Q09, due to lower subscriber growth, a decrease in purchases […]
SlingMedia, part of EchoStar Corporation unveiled four products as part of an expanded strategy targeted at television service providers and consumer electronics manufacturers. Leveraging the technology in its core Slingbox product, Sling Media has created elegant, easy-to-install new products that deliver video placeshifting, allowing anyone to enjoy their video around their home or around the […]
Accedo, Betfair, PlayJam, RallyPoint and Two Way Media are establishing a new forum for the development of games on connected TV it was announced at CES. They say online games are a major driver in the multi-platform digital entertainment arena, attracting 38% of internet users whilst generating billions of downloads via mobile phone applications and […]
Jerry Levin, who sold Time Warner for AOL shares inflated by the dotcom boom, has marked the 10th anniversary of the disastrous $164 billion deal with a call for today's corporate titans to accept responsibility for the recent financial crisis. The former Time Warner chief executive, who had avoided apologising for the billions of dollars […]
Australia government is to build a free-to-air digital-satellite platform to extand reception of digital TV in rural areas. The federal government is committing A$40 million per year over four years to the service. About 247,000 households across the nation are expected to receive “free-to-air” satellite services.
InOutTV and Electra have entered into a long term partnership to offer broadcast and connected interactive television services to consumers in Spain over DVB-T (DTT). Nationwide service availability will commence from first quarter 2010 over InOutTV's digital terrestrial TDT (DVB-T) network. Launch will commence on zapper and PVR STB silicon free-to-air and Premium TDT solutions, […]
For the second year in a row, NBC’s ‘Heroes’ has been named the most-pirated TV show. Despite TV viewership dwindling from 14 million viewers a week in 2006 to six million viewers a week in 2009, the show remains a hit among downloaders. According to Torrentfreak, a blog dedicated to news about BitTorrent file-sharing, “Heroes” […]
D-Link has unveiled its Boxee Box device. The Boxee Box delivers movies, TV shows, music, and photos from a user’s computer, home network, and the Internet to their HDTV with no PC needed. Additionally, Boxee’s core social features make it easy for friends to discover new content from each other through social networks like Facebook, […]
Popbox, a wireless set-top box that streams Netflix to TVs, will be unveiled this week at the Consumer Electronics Show and launch at stores in March. Popbox is the latest stand-alone device to stream Netflix to TVs. Roku, the first set-top to stream Netflix straight to TVs, also comes with wi-fi built in. The Popbox, […]