Japan’s NHK has successfully broadcast long-distance DTT signals for its Super Hi-Vision 8K format, sending huge amounts of data over UHF airwaves, but despite this test, it’s unclear if many Japanese will be watching 8K TV by the time Tokyo hosts the Olympics Games in 2020. The public broadcaster’s Science & Technology Research Laboratories conducted […]
Shares at Sky Deutschland are down dramatically over the past month, and there was a further sudden drop on January 22nd (from €7.18 to €6.91) adding to shareholder anxieties and which have seen Sky Deutschland’s price tumble from $8.14 just before the Christmas holiday by €1.25. The news prompted Patrick Wellington and his media team […]
Connected TV is gaining momentum in Spain and set to boom this year. ADETI, the Association of Interactive TV companies, reports that 2014 will be a year of “commercial consolidation” for connected TV with the HbbTV standard widely adopted. ADETI research reveals that there are currently 2.7 million smart TVs in the country, of which […]
According to BBC Wales, pubs in Cardiff and Swansea suspected of showing English Premier League football matches illegally using foreign satellites face prosecution. A private investigation firm acting on behalf of the Premier League’s has visited nearly 200 pubs in south Wales, it is understood. 2013/14 marks the first EPL season that both Cardiff and […]
Cloud-based TV platform Magine is partnering with German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1. This is the first time a third-party deal has been made to distribute ProSiebenSat.1 channels via OTT services. Magine is set to launch the service in Germany in March 2014. This agreement includes: SAT.1, ProSieben, kabel eins, sixx, SAT.1 Gold and ProSieben MAXX, with […]
Hoping to take advantage of tablets, games consoles and Internet-connected TVs received as Christmas gifts, movie search website FindAnyFilm FindAnyFilm has added Clubcard TV’s free online movies onto the service, giving owners of these new devices another legal choice when it comes to watching film online. FindAnyFilm.com aggregates film availability across all formats, allowing film […]
Sony Pictures Entertainment has laid off a number of senior staffers at its Culver City operation which looks after Sony’s Hollywood-based technology group, including the outfit’s president Chris Cookson and some of his staff. Sony Pictures Technologies provides advice and solutions to movie and TV programming including 3D, the newly-emerging 4K production methodology and workflow. […]
Video intelligence and big data processing specialist Conviva has revealed that it processed over 45 billion streams in 2013, increasing the size of its global intelligence base by more than four times over the last two years, and suggested that this growth is a strong factor in enabling its customers better to serve the Internet […]
DirecTV’s Genie, Liberty Global’s Horizon, Dish’s Hopper and the boxes that power Comcast’s X1 service have something in common other than better marketing names than an older generation of boxes more commonly known by model names such as “DCT6200”. These feature-rich boxes bring more tuners to centralise DVR resources (minimising DVR conflicts), as well as […]
Steering a TV to a new audience has often been described as being similar to steering a super tanker onto a new course. It takes an age to see any real movement. This is the problem for CNN’s president Jeff Zucker. He has been in post at CNN for one full year, yet this past […]