From September 12 to 16, 2014, on booth 7.E25 Rohde & Schwarz DVS will present how TV studios can optimize their production workflows from ingest and studio playout to content distribution by employing the ingest and production server R&S VENICE. With its cutting-edge and open system architecture, variety of supported file formats, codecs, and interfaces […]
Spark New Zealand (formerly Telecom NZ), a New Zealand- wide communications and Internet service provider, has selected Xstream’s award winning professional video management platform, Xstream MediaMaker, for delivery of their new OTT video service, Lightbox – aiming at offering the best service internet TV service in New Zealand. Lightbox is the new OTT video services […]
TalkTalk TV, sponsors of The X Factor, has unveiled its new look sponsorship bumpers and brand new app to get fans closer to the UK’s favourite talent show. The TalkTalk Mix Off app gives viewers of the show the chance to star in their own unique music video taking inspiration from some of the nation’s favourite pop […]
The number of European homes paying a monthly subscription to receive VoD packages will climb from 1.78 million in 2010 (0.6 per cent of TV households) to 17.99 million by end-2014 (6.4 per cent) and onto 59.41 million in 2020 (20.7 per cent), according to a report from Digital TV Research. The European Online TV […]
Traditional and linear television will eventually disappear predicts Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. Speaking to French magazine Telerama ahead of the launch of its service in France, Hastings commented: “Linear TV will continue a little thanks to sporting events, but within twenty years it will have collapsed when all this will be fully available on the […]
While the larger 4K ecosystem slowly gets its footing, a report from The Diffusion Group (TDG) argues that streaming video will be the spark that lights 4K uptake and use. “Only a few years ago the idea of streaming 4K video over the Internet seemed impossible,” notes Joel Espelien, TDG Senior Advisor and author of […]
Japan is about to announce a major commitment towards 4K broadcasting. It already has a 4K ‘best of 4K’ channel on air (which went live on June 2nd) under the auspices of Japan’s ‘NexTV-Forum’ and representing all of Japan’s broadcasters both public and private. Next week will see Japan’s broadcasting authorities announce their latest roadmap […]
Liberty Global will be given permission to take over its Dutch competitor Ziggo by the European Commission. However, the approval will be conditional on Liberty Global selling its Film 1 channel to head off competition concerns, according to Bloomberg. Liberty Global made a formal offer of €34.53 a share for Dutch cable market leader Ziggo […]
TiVo reported higher Q2 revenue as the DVR specialist benefited from worldwide growth and am increased customer base. For the quarter ended July 31st, TiVo reported a profit of $9.3 million compared with $268.9 million a year earlier. The year-ago period included $276 million in net income from its settlement with Cisco and Motorola over […]
Magna Global is forecasting US media owners advertising revenues to grow by 5.1 per cent this year, to $167 billion. This is a decrease from their previous forecast of 6 per cent (April mostly due to a lower estimate for incremental advertising spend generated by non-recurrent Political and Olympic (P&O) ad campaigns this year, and […]