NanoTech Entertainment has confirmed a licensing agreement with MGM. With the agreement NanoTech’s Ultra-HD network UltraFlix has been granted the distribution rights to 5 award-winning MGM films. UltraFlix subscribers are now able to stream the films in Ultra-HD from the comfort of their homes on a variety of 4K platforms and TVs. Fully restored and […]
Dish Network and Fox News Network have reached a multi-year agreement for carriage of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network. These channels are now available to Dish customers with qualifying programming packages in the US. Tim Carry, Fox News and Fox Business executive vice president of distribution, and Warren Schlichting, Dish senior vice president […]
South Africa’s StarSat (formerly ODM/TopTV) has restarted its controversial adult programming. The decision was made as the broadcaster is mounting an appeal at South Africa’s Supreme Court against the decision to force the broadcaster to end transmissions. A Cape Town court in November 2015 had ruled that the broadcasts should end. Meanwhile, StarSat is still […]
The Estonian Technical Surveillance Authority (TSA) has announced a public competition for two new licences for the provision of public television services with free access. Responsive tenders and other statutory documents should be submitted to the TSA by February 10th 015. Based on the tenders submitted, the two best tenderers will be established, who will […]
Amazon’s first pilot season of 2015, featuring slate of 13 original comedy, drama, docu-series and kids offerings, is now available on Amazon Prime Instant Video in the UK, Germany, and US Seven new comedy, drama and docu-series pilots are available including hour-long shows Cocked, Mad Dogs, Man in the High Castle and Point of Honor, […]
Balan Nair, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Liberty Global, has been named co-chair of the cable industry’s landmark “Energy 2020” plan, the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE). Nair will work directly with John Schanz, Chief Network Officer and Executive Vice President of Comcast Cable, to extend to the global market the […]
Elemental Technologies, a supplier of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, today announced it will showcase its full product suite on booth B34 at Convergence India. The show takes place January 21-23 at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi. Elemental has a rapidly growing customer base in India, and serves more than 600 leading media […]
BT could be forced to raise its broadband prices or cut the charges for rivals to use its network under tough tests being proposed by regulator Ofcom. The new rules are designed to ensure that BT cannot exploit its market position against Sky and TalkTalk. For now, Ofcom judges that BT’s retail and wholesale prices […]
Findings from Philips uWand, the intuitive camera-based direct pointing remote control technology specialist, have revealed that professionals in the consumer electronics industry recognise need for a better Smart TV experience, with few taking advantage of Smart TV’s potential, with the user experience to blame. uWand’s latest Smart TV Report shows a
Discovery founder John Hendricks is backing ‘CuriosityStream’ (“on-demand videos for the incurably curious”), a subscription only video stream of specially commissioned non-fiction programming. Hendricks is pricing access to the content at between $2.99 and $9.99 a month depending on quality ranging from SD to 4K/Ultra-HD. High quality streaming will be achieved via Netflix and Amazon’s […]