Investment boutique Oppenheimer has suggested that Netflix’s “aggressive” expansion plans will see 32 per cent of the world’s broadband population using the service by 2020. Jason Helfstein, Oppenheimer’s analyst in charge of Netflix, raised his
According to stock analysis firm Trefis, with the recent introduction of Dish Network‘s Sling TV and HBO’s HBO NOW service, as well as the continued success of Netflix, the threat of cord cutting to US pay-TV companies is as high as it has ever been, with reports suggesting that Q1 2015 saw the industry lose […]
Russia’s largest cellular phone operator MTS (Mobile TeleSystems) is reportedly about to enter the pay-TV market. Russian news site Comnews.Ru suggests that the business will extend the existing service based in and around Moscow and which had a ‘soft’ launch last November, and the Russian ‘far East’, to a nationwide DTH service. Few doubt that […]
OTT TV and video revenues in Latin America [for 13 countries] will reach $2.91 billion in 2020; up from only $37 million in 2010 and the $1.13 billion expected in 2015, according to a new report from Digital TV Research. From the $2.126 billion in revenues to be added between 2014 and 2020, Brazil will […]
Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde has suggested that the Australian Federal government’s crackdown on online piracy, which includes new laws to block overseas websites that infringe copyright, will be unsuccessful in curbing illegal downloading. Speaking to ABC, Sunde said that loopholes in the measures mean that the actions of people using VPNs to access torrent […]
UK quad-play operator Virgin Media has confirmed that the north-west city of Manchester is to be the first to benefit from ‘Project Lightning’, unveiled earlier this year. This major expansion of ultrafast connectivity to 4 million premises over the next five years is claimed as the single largest investment in the UK’s broadband digital infrastructure […]
An in-depth survey of 21 convergent, mobile and cable operators exploring operators’ strategies for deploying Service Delivery Platforms (SDPs) has found that nearly half of respondents identified supporting partnerships with over-the-top (OTT) providers and better monetisation of subscriber data as very important drivers behind their service delivery platform (SDP) deployments. “Operators continue to deploy long-standing […]
Facebook is poised to take on YouTube’s dominance in video content, according to media analysis firm Ampere Analysis. Currently viewed as a platform for building awareness, Facebook hasn’t yet been able to compete with YouTube’s ability to deliver revenue returns to content creators through its huge engaged audiences across the globe. But now it appears […]
Commercial satellite provider Space Systems/Loral (SSL) has been selected to provide a broadcasting satellite for Japan’s Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT). The satellite will be used for Direct-to-Home (DTH) television service in Japan. “The BSAT-4a satellite represents our fourth satellite contract award for the Japanese market in the last two years,” said John Celli, president […]
TVT, the independent media services and post-production house, has published a report outlining the importance of preserving the archive in the new digital age. The paper details the challenges archivists face as medias degrade and demands for easier access increase. With video set to dominate the next century, archivists need to prepare for a digital […]