Telenor’s Canal Digital, the Nordic TV platform and TiVo have confirmed the start of a long-term strategic alliance which will see TiVo products introduced and distributed as the main consumer experience for Canal Digital DTH satellite customers in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. The TiVo product will be available exclusively through Canal Digital where it […]
Google TV on Sony and Logitech sets has not passed a usability test with tech writers at the NY Times. They found it unclear and unintuitive even for technophiles and said it would ‘alienate’ ordinary users: “At this early stage, only three gadgets have Google TV: a 46-inch Sony TV (the catchy-named NSX-46GT1, $1,400) and […]
Orb TV joins the fight for web-to-TV viewers in the US. The super thin Orb plugs directly into a television and streams content to the TV via a computer running free Orb software, called Orb Caster. The software acts like a personal content control tower. Joe Costello, chief executive and founder of Orb Networks, recognises […]
The results from the annual Christmas shopping survey for Twenga, the shopping search engine, show that 52 per cent of Brits don’t want to receive a 3D TV for Christmas. Although the Germans and the Dutch agree with the Brits, the French (57 per cent), the Italian (69 per cent) and the Spanish (61 per […]
For the second quarter in a row, North American digital pay TV operators added fewer subscribers than in the preceding period, according to figures from Strategy Analytics. Comcast added only 219,000 new digital subs in the third quarter, a sharp decrease from Q2 adds of 394,000. Satellite operator Dish saw its second consecutive quarter of […]
The US Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would give US law enforcement more tools to crack down on websites abroad engaged in piracy of movies, television shows and music. The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, which has the support of the entertainment industry but has been strongly criticised by digital rights and […]
US Dish Network has launched a ‘true TV Everywhere’ offering enabling Dish Network subscribers to watch live and recorded television programmes on compatible smartphones, tablets and laptops. Dish Network subscribers can access these features when they download and use the Dish Remote Access application via their broadband-connected, Sling-enabled receiver. Dish Network has introduced Sling Adapter, […]
Cineplex Entertainment has revealed movies can now be digitally downloaded into Canadian homes with Download To Own (DTO) and VOD service from the online Cineplex Store. New releases will be available for digital download on the same day they are released on DVD and Blu-ray. Effective immediately, digital downloads purchased from Cineplex.com can be played […]
SES Astra has confirmed that sixx HD will launch in high-definition (HD) quality on HD+ on December 1st. HD+ is SES Astra’s technical platform for the transmission and reception of TV programmes in HD quality via satellite in Germany. sixx HD is a channel of the ProSiebenSat.1 group targeting a female audience. It is the […]
French media group Lagardere will sell its stake in pay-TV group Canal+ France in an initial public offering (IPO) in spring 2011, its Chief Financial Officer Dominique d’Hinnin has stated. D’Hinnin told investors that Canal+’s majority owner Vivendi had never responded to a price proposal Lagardere had sent early this year, and there had been […]