Advanced Television

Aframe cloud platform for BBC Worldwide

Aframe has supplied the BBC Worldwide’s Formats Team with a cloud video platform to help the process of hosting and sharing format screeners with its clients around the world. Aframe provides BBC Worldwide with a centrally managed portal that can be used as a central repository where different versions of screeners such as Strictly Come […]

June 25, 2015

Anvato adds live-to-VoD capabilities

Anvato, the US TV Everywhere platform provider, has introduced a new Live-to-VoD capability that allows content owners and programmers to create video-on-demand files from their live linear streams and syndicate these files to multiple online destinations (e.g., Netflix, Hulu) and MVPDs (e.g., cable operators and telcos) in near real time. Available to Anvato Media Content […]

June 25, 2015

Frequency new content partnerships

Frequency, a US specialist in Internet video aggregation, have added some of the top Multi-Channel Networks (MCNs) and digital media partners to their service. Fremantle-Media, North America’s Tony Riot, Jukin Media and Zealot Networks have all signed multi-year agreements to deliver their content on the Frequency platform. Frequency provides a complete white-labelled internet video solution […]

June 25, 2015

Technicolor HDR and SDR compatibility

Technicolor, committed to enabling HDR across all aspects of content creation and distribution, has announced the immediate availability of its new High Dynamic Range (HDR) single-layer solution for testing by key ecosystem partners. The solution, which is compatible with MPEG HEVC standards, creates a video which benefits from improved compression efficiency over unprocessed HDR files. […]

June 25, 2015

CJ E&M launching Mnet Digital Lab

Asia’s leading content and media company CJ E&M has revealed that its specialised music channel Mnet will launch Mnet Digital Lab on July 1st to create mobile-friendly online video content, featuring K-pop stars and their off-stage life stories. Targeting viewers between the ages of 15 and 34, Mnet is to produce exclusive digital content on […]

June 25, 2015

Amazon greenlights 3rd season of Transparent

Amazon has greenlit a third season of the Golden Globe Award-winning series Transparent, which will become available exclusively to members of Amazon Prime in 2016. In addition, series creator Jill Soloway has signed an overall deal with Amazon Studios where she will exclusively develop television projects for Amazon Prime. Soloway will continue in her role […]

June 25, 2015

France votes for 700 MHz reallocation

France’s National Assembly has voted unanimously to accept a socialist party proposal to allow the allocation to mobile telephony of frequencies in the 700 MHz band currently used by digital terrestrial television, as well as the modernisation of DTT in France. “On a very technical appearance, this text has great political significance,” declared Fleur Pellerin, […]

June 24, 2015By Colin Mann

Multicultural viewers driving OTT consumption

A Horowitz Research study reveals 88 per cent of urban TV content viewers in the US have the ability to stream video content to a computer, mobile device, or directly to a TV. The study also reveals that multicultural viewers – traditionally pay-TV’s most valuable consumers—are more likely to have made OTT an integral part […]

June 24, 2015

beIN Sports to acquire Digiturk

beIN Sports, the Qatar-based broadcaster, is ready to pay $1.5 billion (€1.3bn) for Digiturk and is close to finalising a deal according to Bloomberg. Previous reports in Turkish media had already suggested that Digiturk had been offloaded to Qatari beIn Media Group, the parent company of beIn Sports. Digiturk is Turkey’s premier cable provider with […]

June 24, 2015

Hulu, Showtime partner for streaming service

Subscribers of Internet entertainment service Hulu will soon have the ability to add the Showtime service to their Hulu subscription and stream on a wide range of the most popular Internet-connected streaming devices. Starting in early July, Showtime will become the first premium service to be offered to Hulu’s nearly nine million subscribers nationwide. Hulu […]

June 24, 2015