Advanced Television

Visiware releases “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” game for Bouygues Telecom’s Bbox

Visiware, a publisher of TV game services, has released the game “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” for Bouygues Telecom’s Bbox. 

This latest release is in line with Visiware’s strategy of making the game available through as many pay-TV or OTT operators as possible worldwide; the game is already available through other operators and partners. […]

January 23, 2014

DTG: 2014 year Ultra-HD gets defined

Taking what it describes as a “measured and cautious” approach, the DTG, the industry association for digital television in the UK, has suggested that it has the time in the next six to twelve months to define clearly what Ultra-high definition television actually means and what it really means for the UK broadcast industry. Describing […]

January 22, 2014By Colin Mann

Discovery takes controlling interest in Eurosport

Discovery Communications and TF1 Group have agreed a deal that sees Discovery acquire a controlling interest in Eurosport International through an extension of the pair’s larger strategic partnership first announced in December 2012. The deal to increase Discovery’s interest from 20 per cent to 51 per cent has brought forward the original agreement by nearly […]

January 22, 2014By Colin Mann

Pay-TV thrives in MENA

Pay-TV revenues in the Middle East and North Africa will grow by more than 83 per cent between 2010 and 2020 to $5.60 billion, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The Digital TV Middle East & North Africa Forecasts report states that Turkey and Israel are expected to contribute 52 per cent of […]

January 22, 2014

Liberty’s Fries: We may spin-off LatAm

At The Davos World Economic Forum, Mike Fries, Chief Executive of Liberty Global, confirmed reports it is looking to spin off its Latin American operations. “Ninety-five percent of our business is in Europe,” he said on CNBC in an interview from Davos, and “that’s where we want to stay focused.” “In Latin America there’s 25 […]

January 22, 2014

Amazon gets serious on pay-TV

Amazon is approaching US media companies to acquire rights for an online pay-TV service, reports the WSJ. The service would expand on the Web retailer’s Prime Instant Video subscription service by offering live programming. Amazon would join Sony and Verizon, which will take its newly acquired OnCue service national,  in taking on Netflix. “We continue […]

January 22, 2014

DirecTV loses 4K legal claim

The US Patent Office has denied DirecTV’s application to register a number of 4K trademarks. Advanced-Television first reported DirecTV’s intention back on February 28th 2013, when the broadcaster applied for 4K, 4KN, 4KNET, 4K Network and 4KNetwork The Patent Office has denied some of the applications but says the 4KNet, and 4KN application might create […]

January 22, 2014By Chris Forrester

Spain: TV multi-screen trend gains momentum

The multi-screen approach by viewers is intensifying in Spain with the availability of different connected devices and platforms. This is the main conclusion of Telefonica´s annual report about the Information Society which highlights that viewers have more and more access to TV content through mobile devices, with 67 per cent of smart users (26 million […]

January 22, 2014From David Del Valle in Madrid

BT/Alcatel fastest ever broadband

The “fastest ever” broadband speeds have been achieved in a test in London. Alcatel-Lucent and BT have reported that speeds of 1.4 terabits per second were achieved during a joint test – enough to send 44 uncompressed HD films a second. The test was conducted on a 410 kilometre link between the BT Tower in […]

January 22, 2014

Study refutes TV broadcasters got free spectrum

The argument that broadcast television stations received spectrum licences “for free” is grossly misleading, said a new study by Navigant Economics Managing Director and Principal Jeffrey Eisenach. The study found nearly all TV station owners paid market value for their spectrum licences through private transactions, and noted other spectrum holders including wireless carriers and satellite […]

January 22, 2014