OTT TV will be a big hit for consumers this Christmas, with 52 per cent of viewers around the world planning to use an online TV service during the festive season, according to a research study commissioned by Paywizard. However, although a hit at Christmas, operators like Amazon Prime, Hulu and Netflix will lose many of their […]
A £200 million (€275m) investment in the UK’s famous Pinewood Studios, which includes the construction of 10 mammoth sound stages, will better equip the facility for a range of high-end television production opportunities, although (Lord) Michael Grade, Chairman, is pleased to report that current demand from the movie sector means that there is little opportunity […]
Convergent packages along with better infrastructure is driving pay-TV growth with almost one in four (24.4 per cent) of homes in the country receiving pay-TV services as of the end of first half other year, according to the latest report from the regulator CNMC. At the end of the second quarter, there were 5.5 million subscribers, […]
Portugal ended the third quarter of 2015 with 3.47 million pay-TV subscribers, up 1.2 per cent on the previous quarter and 5.4 per cent more than in the same period last year. According to the quarterly report of the National Communications Authority (Anacom), the penetration rate for the service has now reached 85.5 per cent. […]
Cult sci-fi comedy drama Red Dwarf, currently with its 11th and 12th seasons in production, is being captured for UK broadcaster ‘Dave’ in Ultra-HD. Officials at Pinewood Studios said the production company (Baby Cow Productions and Grant Naylor Productions) are looking to future-proof the shows, and 4K production means they are ready for releasing in […]
In what the UK’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport describes as “an early Christmas present”, homes and businesses in some of the most remote areas of the UK are to be offered a subsidised satellite broadband connection if they are currently unable to obtain an affordable broadband service of at least 2 Mbps. The […]
2016 is a ‘quadrennial year’ when a combination of the Olympic Games, UEFA European championships and the US elections come together to drive TV display sales to record volumes. But this does not look like happening in 2016 if forecasts from IHS (and its Display Long-Term Demand Forecast Tracker’) are a guide. 2015 started out […]
Wrapping up a milestone year for next-generation television broadcasting, 10 more standards in the ATSC 3.0 suite of standards – including video encoding, Internet Protocol transport, electronic service guides and closed captioning – are moving toward “Candidate Standard” status this month, the Advanced Television Systems Committee. On the heels of approving the ATSC 3.0 transmission […]
Internet users in Germany will soon be able to choose which modem or router to use for their broadband connection. The German government has abolished ISP locking. Until now some network operators approved only their own routers or modems on connections they provided. As a result, users had to make do without certain functions and […]
Cartesian has announced that Farncombe, its wholly owned subsidiary and specialist in digital video, was appointed by AACS LA as the first Authorised Robustness Consultant (ARC) able to help manufacturers ensure the security of their next generation Ultra HD Blu-ray players meets the robustness requirements of the AACS2 Licences for implementations of the recently-released AACS2 […]