The television’s popularity as the go-to entertainment device may be ending, according to ‘Digital Video and the Connected Consumer’, a research report from Accenture. The television was the only product category to see uniform, double-digit usage declines across different types of media worldwide among viewers of nearly all ages. It is rapidly being replaced as […]
Pay-TV in Spain reached 5,059,971 million subscribers as of December 31st 2014. The latest report from the regulator CNMC reveals that the pay-TV penetration is intensifying thanks to the convergent offers and the boost given by Telefonica to the market. Telefonica’s Movistar TV has taken
Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, believes a global video-streaming service would cut down on piracy considerably. According to Overclocked3D, the Netflix boss is in favour of a worldwide service because it would remove the incentive to use a VPN, eliminating the problem at its root. “The VPN thing is a small little asterisk compared […]
ARRIS Group and Charter Communications have established a joint venture that has agreed to acquire ActiveVideo for approximately $135 million. ARRIS will own 65 per cent of the joint venture company and will be the sales channel for ActiveVideo’s CloudTV platform. Closing of the transaction is expected to occur in the second quarter, subject to […]
Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent confirmed they are in talks for a potential merger. The merger would take the form of a public bid by Nokia for Alcatel-Lucent. Further details of the negotiations were not disclosed. While Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent are similar in size in terms of annual sales, Nokia has a market capitalisation of nearly three […]
Investors have grown concerned at the impact Russia’s economic downturn might be having on Eutelsat’s profitability. CEO Michel de Rosen took the opportunity of an in-depth interviews with the French press to say Eutelsat had renegotiated its contracts with Russian broadcasters, but that the new contracts had a ‘reverse’ clause allowing contract values to return […]
MTG has secured the exclusive Nordic rights to the widely anticipated boxing match between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao. The fight can be seen live on PPV on the Viasat satellite platform and online streaming service Viaplay in Norway, Denmark and Finland. In Sweden it will be available on Viaplay. The event will take […]
Amazon has confirmed announced that X-Ray – a customer-favourite feature since it launched on Fire tablets – is now available directly on TV screens in the UK using Amazon Fire TV, and will also be available on Fire TV Stick when it ships in the UK this week. Exclusive to Amazon Instant Video and Prime […]
Sanford Panitch is leaving 20th Century Fox to become president of international film and television at Sony Pictures – a newly created position. Newly appointed Sony Pictures chief Tom Rothman worked with Panitch for nearly 20 years when Rothman ran Fox’s film division. Panitch served as president of Fox International Productions, a division of 20th […]
German VoD service maxdome has signed an agreement with Sony Pictures Television for the digital rights to more than 700 TV series and movies. The deal will see around 130 movies and TV series from the studio being added each year to the maxdome package. Titles include Tarantino movie Django Unchained and TV series The […]