Ekioh is pleased to announce that Dune HD has deployed its twin rendering engine technology on their popular TV series set top boxes, opening the market for advanced middleware implementations featuring high graphics performance. Dune HD selected Ekioh’s twin engine solution because it allows middleware providers to exploit the optimal performance of Ekioh SVG for […]
A report commissioned by Digital UK – the company that manages strategy and policy for digital terrestrial television (DTT) in the UK – reveals the major economic benefits that Freeview and other terrestrial TV services deliver to the UK. The report – The value of Digital Terrestrial Television in an era of increasing demand for […]
Insights from GfK’s MultiMedia Mentor show that teenagers’ Internet use is growing faster than that of any other key age group, abetted by a variety of devices – smartphones, tablets, videogame consoles, and connected TVs. Time spent online by teens (ages 13 to 17) rose 37 per cent, to just over 4 hours per day, […]
Turkey’s Dogan Yayın Holding has raised its non-binding bid to $879.5 million to buy a 53 per cent stake in digital pay-TV operator Digiturk. Dogan Yayın, which runs newspapers and TV stations, made the offer to Digiturk owner Çaukurova Holding and to the state Savings Deposit Insurance Fund of Turkey, it said in a statement […]
A group of major broadcasters has asked a US appellate court to defer its decision on whether to lift an injunction against Internet TV streaming service FilmOn X until after the Supreme Court rules on the legality of market counterpart Aereo. The Emergency Motion asks the Court, on an emergency basis, to hold in abeyance […]
Although the Philips brand will continue to appear on TV sets, Royal Philips has agreed to transfer its remaining 30 per cent stake in TP Vision, the television joint venture with TPV Technology, to a fully-owned subsidiary of TPV. The signing of definitive agreements is expected to take place in the first quarter of 2014, […]
What do companies do when they are very powerful in a particular field but that power becomes threatened because technology means the battleground shifts to an area where they are weak? You can’t organically become strong in a new sector quickly enough to avert the danger. You can’t even do with it with lots of […]
Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel’s OTT movie streaming service Presto, announced in September and originally scheduled for launch by the end of 2013, has been further delayed by technical issues, and instead of launching in the coming week, is now only likely to go live in the next couple of months. “This is a complicated platform […]
BBC News is stepping up its social media offerings after mobile and tablet viewing figures overtook desktop use for the first time in December. BBC News launched Instafax, a new short-form video news service delivered to Instagram users. The project is a month-long experiment, with three 15-second videos uploaded a day, intended to serve as […]
Turner Broadcasting’s localised WB channel has run into a problem with India’s tough censorship administrators over the transmission of a movie. WB aired the romantic comedy. “It’s a Boy/Girl Thing” which in India is rated V/UA (implying “all ages but Parental Guidance is advised) and without cuts to the movie. The movie – in its […]