Akamai Technologies has acquired Octoshape in a cash transaction. Octoshape’s services are designed to help optimise the quality of video streams for OTT content and to enable IPTV solutions. “As more video gets consumed over the Internet, and on devices that can display higher-quality resolution, it is important for us to develop new ways to […]
Ricky Gervais’ new movie Special Correspondents will debut exclusively on Netflix in 2016. Gervais wrote and directed the movie, which, according to the synopsis, stars Eric Bana as “a struggling New York-based radio journalist, whose arrogance and decadent lifestyle has hindered his career. With his job on the line, he fakes front-line war reports from the […]
An Australian court has ordered ISPs to hand over details of customers accused of illegally downloading a US movie. In a landmark move, the Federal Court told six firms to divulge names and addresses of those who downloaded The Dallas Buyers Club. The case was lodged by the US company that owns the rights to […]
Entertainment streaming platform Roku has unveiled two new ways for consumers in the UK and the Republic of Ireland to find and discover streaming entertainment on their Roku players. The first feature, ‘Roku Search’, enables consumers to search for movies, TV shows, actors and directors and view pricing and availability details across top streaming channels. […]
Adopting digital transmission in Kenya has not been free of a few headaches. There have been Court actions, consumer protests and ministerial interventions, but Kenya is now ‘dark’ as far as analogue TV is concerned. The ITU’s official conversion deadline is June this year. The nation switched off its last analogue transmitted a few days […]
Malaysia’s government is planning to distribute 2 million DTT STBs free of charge to poorer consumers. Malaysia’s Communications & Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek said the set top boxes would be given to peop0le who were already recipients of the 1Malaysia People’s Aid (BR1M) and e-Kasih poverty-eradication programmes. “One of the conditions agreed […]
Amazon Prime Instant Video is now available for Android tablets via a native app. The free app gives users access to the platform’s streaming library and includes the same core features as the Android smartphone edition. Amazon’s X-Ray service, which displays supplemental information from IMDb on screen during playback, is included on the Android tablet […]
Pay-radio operator Sirius-XM has secured another major contract from a mass-market carmaker for its Sirius-XM telematics ‘direct-to-car’ service. Sirius-XM is already working with BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Infiniti, Toyota and Lexus to supply telematics services. This new agreement extends the relationship that Sirius-XM already has with Nissan and its ‘NissanConnect’ services. Nissan’s 2016 top of the […]
New ranges of Smart TVs are going on sale in Europe from brands such as Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba and others. What makes these latest models different is that they have a dedicated ‘Netflix’ button on the remote control, as reported by Advanced-Television last week. More often than not the Netflix option was already available to […]
Elemental Technologies, asupplier of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, hs revealed that Comcast has selected its video processing software to power encoding for the X1 DVR with cloud technology. “Video infrastructure is moving rapidly to IP and to software-defined video solutions running in virtualised environments on customer’s own networks,” said Dan Marshall, senior […]