From December 11th, 3D VOD will be available on Orange TV. In partnership with Studiocanal and Warner Bros.Digital Distribution, Orange will be offering 3D VOD exclusives on movies “Around the world in 50 years” and “The Clash of the Titans.” This service is available to Orange broadband customers with High Definition TV, equipped with a […]
AT&T’s U-verse has launched the AT&T U-verse Mobile app for Windows Phone 7 devices and is allowing any AT&T Windows Phone user to use the app watch hit TV shows for free for 30 days. Customers will be charged $9.99 a month once the free trial ends. The application will be initially available on the […]
Even though 56 per cent of all American homes are getting HD signals on their high def sets, well over 80 per cent of viewing is still done in standard definition, Nielsen reports. Only 13 per cent of the viewing for the entire day of cable programming and only 19 per cent of the viewing […]
According to an NSR study, the global economic crisis did little to slow down the worldwide commercial satellite capacity leasing market. NSR estimates the industry picked up over $400 million in new leasing revenues in 2009, reaching $9.7 billion as of the end of the year. Further, results so far in 2010 indicate the sector […]
SES World Skies has signed a capacity agreement with Vizada Networks for reliable telecommunications network back-up across Africa’s Sub Saharan region. A full 36 MHz transponder aboard SES World Skies’ NSS-5 satellite is delivering GSM backhaul restoration service, supporting a leading African telecom provider’s voice network in the event of a terrestrial outage. It is […]
blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, has formed a partnership with Amino Communications. Under the terms of the partnership, Amino and blinkx will develop an integrated search, recommendation and personalisation solution powered by blinkx technology to be deployed on Amino’s hybrid/OTT set-top boxes, including the Amino Freedom, which brings broadcast, on-demand TV, open Internet […]
L4 Media, the interactive media company, has unveiled Panorama, the company’s new television widget platform. Panorama is designed for IPTV and television service providers who want to make it easy for consumers to access personalised content, like Twitter and Facebook updates, weather forecasts, and sports scores, directly from their televisions. L4 Media announced that Nokia […]
Civolution has signed an exclusive agreement with Sony’s Digital Cinema Solutions Group to integrate NexGuard – Digital Cinema watermarking into Sony 4K SXRD digital cinema systems for 3D stereoscopic and 4K resolution projections on a global scale. In this multi-year agreement, Sony’s Digital Cinema Solutions group will integrate Civolution’s watermarking technologies to market DCI compliant […]
Reporting as a unit of media conglomerate Prisa for the first time, pay-TV operator Digital + played up the success of its PVR proposition, the increase in ARPU and a slowing loss of subscribers. In September, Digital + had 1,772,677 subs, down 73,100 in the nine month period reported compared with a loss of 135,600 […]
Zoran Corporation, a provider of digital solutions for the digital entertainment market, has joined MoCA, the worldwide standard for home entertainment networking, as an Associate level member. Zoran supplies SD and HD set-top box processor platforms to operators across the globe for digital satellite, cable and terrestrial set-top applications. To date, Zoran has shipped more […]