Liberty Global is currently conducting due diligence on Irish broadcaster TV3 with a view to purchasing the business. Talks are said to be advanced stage but a deal is not expected for several months and would require ministerial and regulatory clearance. TV3’s owners are looking for a price of between €120 million and €150 million […]
The adoption of digital transmission by most African countries is a complete mess, and only two nations will meet next week’s June 17th digital switch over deadline. The admission came from Beijing at the 5th African Digital TV Development Seminar, organised by StarTimes (itself a major player in introducing digital TV in Africa). The president […]
The latest Australian Multi-Screen Report – from Regional TAM, OzTAM and Nielsen, and covering the first quarter of calendar 2015 – explores household take-up of new screen technologies and trends in how major age groups view broadcast television and other video across multiple screens. It also presents new findings about Australians’ claimed use of and […]
Japan’s public broadcaster NHK is making available much of its NHK World International service available On Demand. The service, entirely in English, will open for availability on June 15th and is free to users. NHK says the service will start with 13 programmes mainly transmitted within the past one week or two as a way […]
YouTube has launched support for 8K video, allowing users to watch videos in such high resolutions that it reportedly crashes their computer. The first 8K film, entitled Ghost Towns, is a video of a person exploring an abandoned settlement. It was shot on a special RED Epic Dragon 6K Camera and then stitched together to […]
IHS has reported that unit shipments of WiFi extenders, which are used to improve the range of WiFi networks, will hit 9.6 billion worldwide in 2019, up from 5.3 million in 2014. “We look for shipments of WiFi extenders to grow worldwide
Sky Deutschland’s OTT service, “Sky Online”, is now accessible on a selection of Android devices. The streaming service is now available as an app on the Google Nexus 5, Nexus 7, Samsung Galaxy S3, S4, S4 mini, S5, S5 mini, Note 2, Note 3, Note 10.1, Tab 3 (7.0, 10.1), Tab 4 (7.0, 10.1) and […]
It seems like it is all change at UK broadcast and media facilities specialist Arqiva again as CEO John Cresswell steps down. Cresswell, who was ITV’s COO until he joined Arqiva in 2011, leaves the business in good shape, but there has certainly been some important management changes during his time at the company. For […]
Telestream, a provider of digital video tools and workflow solutions today announced that the latest version of Switch now includes new professional visual inspection tools to create affordable QC workflows for post production and video professionals. New features include external preview to AJA video hardware products that turn any PC or Mac into a professional […]
TR-069, the Broadband Forum standard which has already transformed the provision of communications services in the home, is set for a new era as an industry survey conducted by Ovum showed that service providers across the world are relying on its versatility and reliability to support them in delivering IoT and M2M services. The report […]