Two men arrested on suspicion of leaking action movie The Expendables 3 online before its official release date have been questioned by detectives from the UK’s Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) and released on bail until May 2015. Detectives from the City of London Police unit arrested a 36 year old man at his […]
Spaniards are now able to watch all Telefónica’s pay-TV channels from Movistar TV without the need of using a set-top-box. The company has entered into an alliance with Samsung to create Movistar TV Ready which will be available on all Samsung’s Smart TVs, featuring all the services currently distributed by Movistar TV. The integration of […]
International entertainment group MTG has announced that Russian digital satellite TV platform Raduga TV will cease broadcasting on 5 December 2014, as it has not been granted the required broadcasting licence from the local media regulator. MTG will continue to enhance the content and technology of its Russian pay-TV channel business Viasat, and will launch […]
TV technology specialist Vision247 has extended to the number of channels that it is streaming via the FreeviewHD service to include new channels focused on news, shopping and religion. The new channels include France24, TVC, Best Direct ShowcaseTV, BelieveTV, GodTV, ACBN. These will join more than 20 other news, sport and lifestyle channels freely available […]
MTG’s online streaming service Viaplay has entered into a partnership with Swedish telco Tele2, enabling Tele2 to offer Viaplay to its 3.7 million Swedish mobile and mobile broadband subscribers. The deal increases both the reach and availability of Viaplay. The partnership is the first of its kind for Viaplay. Both new and existing Tele2 customers […]
The third season of Netlix’s award-winning political drama House of Cards is set to begin on February 27 2015. Netflix revealed the news via a Twitter announcement, advising followers: BREAKING NEWS: President Underwood and the First Lady will be making an announcement today at 11 A.M. EST. Please stand by … A link to a […]
UK quad-play operator Virgin Media has partnered with TV advertising and data solutions specialist BlackArrow to introduce advanced digital capabilities that support the advertising needs of brands and broadcasters. BlackArrow provides a host of multi-screen and cross-platform advertising solutions which will enhance Virgin Media’s on demand TV platform and Virgin TV Anywhere, the operator’s TV […]
Media and device testing specialists, Digital TV Labs. has announced what it claims is the world’s first HbbTV 2.0 Test Suite which will be developed to support Digital UK’s next generation Freeview connected service. The contract includes the provision of Digital TV Labs Ligada iSuite test tool and test material covering components of HbbTV 2.0 […]
As reported by Advanced-Television more than a week ago, Kenya has confirmed that its main analogue transmitters will be switched off on December 31st. Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) DG Francis Wangusi says the analogue switch-of will be implemented in three phases beginning with Nairobi and its suburbs. The second phase that will cover the […]
A European Space Agency-sponsored ministerial meeting in Luxembourg today, (December 2nd) is expected to approve the design and construction of the Ariane 6 ‘modular’ rocket system. The concept calls for overall funding of €3.8 billion ($4.7bn) and resolves the long-running wrangling and delays in the planning of various intermediate proposals, but has now decided on […]