Independent media services and post-production house TVT has launched its media management platform ContentSelect. The software, developed by the TVT team, is a complete orchestration toolset that delivers transmission-ready content for linear TV and video on demand (VoD). The cloud-based platform efficiently manages media operations, streamlines workflows and ensures content is edited, packaged and delivered […]
Ideal Group today announced the launch of Ideal-Live, a new equipment rental service for professional mobile video gathering. The service will be initially offered through Ideal’s offices in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia and will be rolled out across the rest of Asia Pacific in early 2016. The new Ideal-Live service offers ready-to-go in-country solutions to news agencies and live […]
TiVo might be losing its CEO, Tom Rogers, next February but he is departing on a ‘high’ with y-o-y subs numbers at an all-time high – both domestically in the US and internationally. Rogers, in a post-results call with analysts, stressed he will be staying on as TiVo’s largest individual shareholder, and Chairman. Rogers has […]
Vodafone Spain is making a full-frontal assault on the pay-TV market with an aggressive promotion for Black Friday, offering subscribers to the Vodafone One convergent service one year of free premium TV. The service normally costs €12 per month, meaning an annual saving of €144 to those contracted the offer before the deadline of December […]
According to a survey by RBC Capital Markets, 51 per cent of Americans have watched content on Netflix at least once in the past 12 months. RBC Capital surveyed 1,077 Internet users, more than
Japan’s SKY Perfect TV pay-TV operation has cracked some of the major problems related to broadcasting 4K/UltraHD. It has just demonstrated at the InterBee electronics show its 4K solutions featuring High Dynamic Range (HDR), described by experts as being needed to deliver more of a ‘wow’ effect to Ultra-HD screens. SKY Perfect TV says it […]
Spain’s Regional Basque Country-based cable operator Euskaltel has launched a share issue estimated at €255 million to help pay for its €1.19 billion acquisition of R Cable, which operates mainly in the northern region of Galicia. Euskaltel will issue over 25.3 million new shares as part of the planned capital hike, which combined with new […]
A Federal Court judge in New York has granted a permanent injunction and final judgment in the Motion Picture Association of America member companies’ lawsuit against the operators of the MovieTube ring of websites, shutting down the sites, awarding the plaintiffs $10.5 million in damages and transferring the domains to the plaintiffs. “The MPAA’s member […]
Consumer confidence toward technology spending and the overall economy both increased in November, according to the data released by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), formerly the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). The CTA Index of Consumer Technology Expectations (ICTE), which measures consumer expectations about technology spending, jumped 8.8 points to 92.1 in November, a bigger leap […]
The Optus cable TV and broadband network acquired by Australia’s national broadband network (nbn) for A$800 million (€545m) is in such poor condition the nbn is considering replacing it entirely, according to a leaked document, which suggests that building over the Optus HFC network with Telstra HFC or a mix of other technologies would deliver […]