Brazil’s TIM telco (a 67 per cent-owned subsidiary of Telecom Italia Mobile) is readying for 4K transmissions. Its latest ‘Live Blue’ set-top box will be upgraded to allow for 4K-quality signals. The new version will have a larger hard drive to cope with bigger file sizes and to cope with OTT transmissions. It will continue […]
Liberty Global is expected to unveil its Q1/2015 results on May 7th and one investment banker has issued a report with a share-price target for the MSO of $59 (currently around $52) and helped by steady revenues (expected to be some $4.57 billion) and up about 3.8 per cent y-o-y. Investment house Jefferies, in its […]
The UK’s Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) has marked World Intellectual Property (IP) Day 2015, taking place April 26th by announcing it has diverted more than 10.3 million illegal music and film sites to an official police warning page since July last year. Since the unit launched in September 2013, the team has been […]
Ireland charges €160 for an annual TV licence, but wants to revise both the charge and how it is collected. The new concept is to have a ‘Public Service Broadcasting Charge’ and discussions with stakeholders started in August 2013, but the scheme has been put on hold because of its complexity. The rationale for a […]
Nearly 60 per cent of the Dutch have no plans to cancel their traditional TV subscription in favour of OTT service television programmes, according to Telecompaper Consumer Panel data. Around 4 per cent said they will likely cancel the subscriptions within the next two years while a quarter do not yet know that they will […]
Turner Broadcasting System and Hulu have agreed a multi-year licensing agreement that will grant Hulu exclusive SVoD rights to previous seasons of popular Cartoon Network and Adult Swim programmes, as well as select current and upcoming series from TNT and TBS. This is the first ever licensing deal between the two. Among the animated offerings […]
VoD streaming service Wuaki.tv has signed a new deal with Icon Film Distribution to increase its focus on high quality independent movies. Icon Film Distribution is one of the UK’s fastest growing independent distributors focusing on distinctive feature films. The deal will immediately add a selection of library movies, including; Drive, Precious and A Single […]
Edgar Aker has been appointed as the new President of the Fibre to the Home (FTTH) Council Europe, becoming the seventh person to hold this position since the organisation was founded in 2004. Aker replaces outgoing President Karin Ahl, who occupied this position for the past three years. In addition to his new position as […]
Allegro DVT, a provider of H.264 and HEVC solutions, has unveiled its new affiliate Keepixo, specifically dedicated to its broadcast business. Allegro DVT is known in the field of video compression and currently has two business units: • Broadcast business unit: development of OTT & IPTV encoding software and appliances for broadcasters and service providers • Semiconductor […]
Skyline Communications, global leader in end-to-end multi-vendor network management and OSS software solutions for the broadcast, satellite, cable, telco and mobile industry, announces a reorganization of its leadership structure to further support its continuously accelerating growth, and to guide the company to its next level. Skyline’s Board of Directors appointed for its C-level staff Ben […]