Dailymotion has agreed new content deals with leading Indian movie company Venus to bring Bollywood movies to fans around the world. The new partnership will see more than 100 additional Bollywood movies uploaded onto Dailymotion in the coming months, making it the place to go for Indian film content online. They will also be hosting […]
Scripps Networks Interactive channel Food Network is now available in Greece for the first time. The global food entertainment and lifestyle channel is broadcasting on Greece’s Hellas Online (HOL) IPTV network. The launch follows the recent announcement that Food Network and Fine Living are now available in Norway on the cable platform Canal Digital Kabel […]
Less than 12 months after launching in the Netherlands, Horse & Country TV, the specialist equestrian sports and lifestyle network, has confirmed it will be carried by Dutch cable carrier Ziggo from the beginning of June 2013. H&C TV CEO, Heather Killen, said: “Joining the channel line-up at Ziggo represents a major milestone for Horse […]
Media Excel has been chosen by QuickPlay Media as a video transcoding solution partner for its global multiscreen services. Hundreds of channels will be transcoded on the HERO 5000 series platform for the first phase of their partnership. Using Media Excel solutions, QuickPlay will provide turnkey MPEG-DASH and HEVC-centric solutions to their customers. This creates […]
Elemental Technologies, the supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, has announced plans to showcase its advanced video processing solutions at the ANGA COM Exhibition & Congress in Cologne, Germany June 4-6. Solutions from Elemental are widely adopted across the media industry and help pay TV operators, content programmers, production studios and sports broadcasters […]
At ANGA COM 2013, ruwido (stand H21) will display its range of design-focussed next generation input devices. In response to the continuously growing amount of content available through individual TV service offerings, the company will also demonstrate how voice can be integrated effectively into navigation techniques in order to make content intuitively accessible. According to […]
Netflix is planning to introduce a 4K video streaming service “within a year or two”. Chief product officer Neil Hunt, who runs the company’s all-important video streaming technology, says that much of the service’s House of Cards blockbuster was shot in 4K and that Netflix was looking to have a House of Cards 4K encode […]
According to Analysys Mason Senior Analyst, Cesar Bachelet, the firm’s latest consumer survey, conducted in five countries in Europe and the USA, more than a third of respondents were interested in buying a Smart TV set, but of the one in five respondents who claimed to own a smart TV, fewer than half of those […]
The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast (2012-2017) projects that global Internet protocol (IP) traffic will grow three-fold between 2012 and 2017. Global IP traffic (fixed and mobile) is expected to reach an annual run rate of 1.4 zettabytes ― more than a trillion gigabytes per year – by 2017. Internet video users are projected […]
The opportunity for OTT video to prosper in emerging markets is strong. In order to take advantage of this, telcos need to take into consideration five factors, according to a new from Pyramid Research. The report – that examines the growth of OTT video in markets across Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe and the Middle […]