Sling Media, part of of EchoStar, has confirmed the availability of the Slingbox M1, a re-designed Slingbox featuring WiFi connectivity, capable of delivering HD-quality video to mobile devices in the UK and Europe. Slingbox solutions allow consumers to watch home TV content on Internet-connected smartphones, tablets, PCs/Macs or other TVs―virtually anywhere in the world. “Given […]
Former British MP and Intellectual Property Rights Advisor to Prime Minister David Cameron, Mike Weatherley, has re-joined the Motion Picture Licensing Company (international), Ltd. (MPLC) as Vice Chairman and will join the MPLC parent company, Motion Picture Licensing Corporation in Los Angeles as Executive Vice President and will be a Director of both companies. He […]
French financial newspaper Les Echos is reporting that French commercial network TF1 is talking with French cinema owners and movie distributors in an attempt to gain greater flexibility in how TF1 makes better use of movies it co-finances. TF1 is looking to achieve more screenings for the same movie and to be able to pre-finance […]
There were 278 million requests to BBC iPlayer in March, with a daily average of nine million, marking a seven per cent drop on the same period last year. The decline came despite hit shows such as Top Gear (which still has episodes available for now) and The Voice, and contrasts with strong online video […]
Ericsson has selected Evergent Technologies as a strategic global partner to accelerate the delivery of end-to-end solutions for OTT video services. Evergent has integrated its cloud based service management, product management, subscriber management, and billing platform with Ericsson Managed Player, and Ericsson Mediaroom Reach, the highly scalable platform for OTT video delivery to connected devices. […]
Irdeto announced that maxdome, the most popular video-on-demand company in Germany and Austria, is using Irdeto Rights to address the industry-wide challenge of supporting different DRM solutions for web browsers through one of the world’s first deployments combining MPEG DASH and Widevine. As browser vendors move to embed specific DRM technologies on each of their […]
Videology, the video advertising technology platforms, and White Ops, a pioneer in online ad fraud detection, have partnered to combat bots and other non-human activity in online video at scale. This announcement is the result of each company’s efforts against the global botnet scourge first begun by the two companies in early 2014. The Videology […]
MaxLinear has joined the Board of Directors of the Multimedia over Coax Alliance, MoCA moving up from an Associate level membership they’ve held since 2011. MaxLinear was eligible to assume the seat on the MoCA Board as a result of its acquisition of Entropic Communications. “We intend to take a very active role in MoCA,” […]
IPTV technology specialist PerceptionTV and MPP Global, a provider of cloud Identity Management, CRM and eCommerce for media and entertainment, have joined forces to provide TV start-ups with the opportunity to offer a complete IPTV/OTT platform with cloud based billing and portal functionality. John Mills, CEO PerceptionTV, commented: “The Perception platform delivers TV as it […]
Spanish satellite telecommunications operator Hispasat has announced a long-term agreement signed with the Mexican satellite service provider Spacenet to distribute movies and live shows over the country’s main movie networks. Thus, the more than 500 Mexican movie theaters covered by Spacenet’s services will be able to receive top-quality content with added speed and efficiency, thanks […]