Eurosport today kicks off its 25th year with the launch of an on and off-air activation to mark a quarter-century in live sports broadcasting. From its first transmission in 1989 as part of the fledging satellite TV industry, Eurosport has established its place today as the number 1 television* and digital* platform in Europe through […]
SoftAtHome, provider of home operating platforms enabling convergent services for the Digital Home, has announced that its software is powering the ultra-fast 1Gbps Home Gateway for Swisscom, Switzerland’s leading telecoms provider. The Internet-Box, launched in November 2013, is available to Swisscom residential customers for browsing the Internet at speeds up to 1 Gbps over the […]
ALi Corporation, a STB solution provider, has announced that M3715, a high definition DVB-C system-on-chip STB solution equipped with advanced security, is to be exhibited at ALi’s booth C12, Hall 18 at Convergence India 2014, South Asia’s largest ICT exposition, taking place on January 21-23, 2014 in New Delhi. Providing robust protection on content distribution, […]
Liberty Global is finalising takeover talks with Dutch operator Ziggo, according to reports. Liberty, Europe’s largest cable operator and already owns 28.5 per cent of Ziggo, and is keen to continue consolidation of the European cable market. The companies could announce a deal as early as mid-January, according to Bloomberg. Ziggo’s shares rose 2.7 per […]
Research from Parks Associates finds subscribers of OTT services spend more per month renting and buying video downloads than the average household, which contributes to the success of Amazon’s business model of integrating transactional services with its Amazon Prime subscription service. Two-thirds of Amazon Prime Instant Video subscribers use Amazon transactional service. Brett Sappington, director, […]
Channel 4 has removed all of its long-form content from YouTube as it focuses on its own service 4oD. The broadcaster has pulled thousands of hours of shows from C4, E4 and More4 from its YouTube channel, but said it will continue to offer short-form content via new ventures such as 4Shorts and Mashed. C4 […]
Amazon Instant Video has revealed it is working with the world’s leading consumer electronics companies, top Hollywood studios and TV programmers, including Samsung, Warner Bros, Lionsgate, 20th Century Fox, Discovery and others to offer customers a premium 4K Ultra HD experience. The announcement continues Amazon’s commitment to 4K. In December 2013, Amazon Studios announced that […]
Satellite operations and video delivery solutions provider EchoStar Corp has acquired 100 per cent ownership of Solaris Mobile Ltd., the Eutelsat/SES joint-venture next-generation mobile satellite services (MSS) operator based in Dublin, Ireland and one of the European Union licensees of mobile satellite service with a complementary ground component (S band). Solaris Mobile Ltd is deploying […]
The BBC has reported it received 102 million iPlayer requests for TV and radio programmes between December 21st and January 1st, with 80 million for TV and 22 million for radio. This is a 32 per cent year-on-year rise, although the BBC has measured one extra day this year compared to 2012. New Year’s Day […]
In the presence of an eager press corps at CES in Las Vegas, LG revealed that its broad new 2014 line of Ultra HD TVs with LG’s proprietary webOS Smart TV platform will support content streaming in Ultra HD 4K from Internet television network Netflix. In total, 12 new models comprise LG’s 2014 Ultra HD […]