The premiere of Olaf’s Frozen Adventure, a new Disney short film, will air exclusively on Sky Cinema on Christmas Day. Disney’s 21 minute mini-movie features Frozen favourite Olaf, who is searching the kingdom of Arendelle to bring back a Christmas tradition for Anna and Elsa. Olaf’s Frozen Adventure includes four brand new songs guaranteed to […]
Love Nature, a joint venture between Blue Ant Media and Smithsonian Networks, has announced that its premium wildlife and nature streaming video service, available in 65+ countries, has launched on Vodafone TV in 4K and HD in New Zealand. All Vodafone TV subscribers in New Zealand have Love Nature’s premium natural history SVoD service bundled […]
ATP Media, the broadcast arm of the ATP World Tour has won the International Sports Award for Sports Media of the Year. The International Sports Awards are voted for by members of the International Sports Chamber of Commerce and participants in the International Sports Convention. The awards celebrate the finest sports work in the world. […]
Inview Technology, the broadcast/OTT software and service specialist, and DigitalGlue, a systems integrator, equipment provider and software developer for the production and distribution of digital video, have today announced the launch of DigitalGlue’s new MPEG-4 HD set-top boxes used by the American Forces Network (AFN). Inview’s middleware, integrated on all of the new DVB-S2 set-top boxes, provides a […]
Global visual technology company RealD Inc. has announced that Service Bioscoop Hollywoud, Almkerk, Netherlands, have installed the RealD Ultimate Screen in all 4 of their cinema auditoriums, making them the first complex in the world to have the Ultimate Screen in every auditorium. The RealD Ultimate Screen is a revolutionary, highly sophisticated, scientifically engineered screen […]
The European Commission has presented measures to ensure that intellectual property rights are well protected, thereby encouraging European companies, in particular SMEs and start-ups, to invest in innovation and creativity. The EC said the initiatives would make it easier to act efficiently against breaches of intellectual property rights, facilitate cross-border litigation, and tackle the fact […]
A fifth of UK Netflix subscribers watched Stranger Things in the first week of Season 2’s release, according to research from YouGov. The research indicates that of the 6.5 million UK Netflix subscribers, 1.3 million streamed Stranger Things – either to watch the first season, or view the new episodes (which went live on October […]
Research has shown that in a world of digital and social media, TV is still the main medium by which consumers learn about new product launches. Some 44 per cent of Brits say they first noticed
MultiChoice, despite its recent political problems, has seen strong subscriber growth. In the half-year to September 30th the South African pay-TV operator added almost 600,000 new subs, up 10 per cent on the same period a year ago. Not all the growth came from its DStv satellite service. The biggest rise came from GOtv, its […]
The main advantage for telcos is the high quality of data according to an iDate report, particularly real-time location data collected through the mobile, a precious data source unavailable to the OTT players. Having an already established payment connection and related data is also a precious asset, not necessarily available to the likes of Google […]