In-flight entertainment (IFE) supplier Gogo is taking all the available capacity on an SES satellite, AMC-4. SES will shift the satellite from its current orbital spot at 67 degrees West, to a new position. AMC-4 is being replaced by SES-10 which launched at the end of March. Gogo will use the new capacity to serve […]
Video is everywhere, and TV-quality content is available on virtually any connected device with a colour screen. Not surprisingly, therefore, we have witnessed an evolution in the way people view video. One of the key changes has been the ability to access and view video anywhere there is an Internet connection, including, of course, at […]
Swedish multi-play operator Com Hem’s Q1 revenue saw a strong increase of 37.7 per cent to SEK 1,757 million (€183.2m) while organic revenue rose by 3.5 per cent to SEK 1,321 million. Digital-TV RGUs totalled 644,000, with a continued growth of 6,000 TiVo customers (penetration rate of 39 per cent). Boxer, the pay-TV operator that […]
Business news channel CNBC is ramping up its coverage of the Middle East with a new live daily update from the region’s financial capital, Abu Dhabi and its Global Market (ADGM). John Casey, SVP/International News and Programming for CNBC, said: “The economic story in the Middle East is one that we are extremely interested in. […]
Suggesting they are elevating the mobile entertainment experience with a one-stop destination for on-demand video, games, music and more, live and on-demand video delivery solutions provider MobiTV and communications services company Sprint are launching a new feature-rich content app Sprint Spot, available now for Android users. Sprint Spot allows users to listen to music, play […]
Viu, a pan-regional OTT video service by PCCW Media, hits 6 million monthly active users (MAU) across its markets in March this year, representing a 50 per cent growth from 4 million since November 2016. Since launch in October 2015, Viu has been made available in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Oman, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, Kuwait, Egypt […]
The powerful Writers Guild of America’s (WGA) membership have voted overwhelmingly to go on strike. The WGA is arguing that Hollywood’s TV and movie producers are under-paying minimum fees and is seeking closer parity between ‘network’ and cable-based TV series productions. Some 96 per cent of votes supported the strike call. The WGA said that […]
At NAB 2017, Haivision, a specialist in video streaming solutions, has launched dual 4K live streaming of VR 360 content. The company is demonstrating the technology with Nokia and Intel. Its latest advancement in high resolution HEVC and H.264 encoding, the KB 4K internet streaming encoder is now available with the Intel Visual Compute Accelerator […]
As part of the Moments Worth Paying For campaign from pro-copyright education body the Industry Trust for IP Awareness, British actor Charlie Hunnam has released a short video to encourage audiences to make the most of their movies and see them on the big screen. The exclusive 35” trailer features Hunnam in an exclusive piece […]
At NAB 2017, IBM has revealed plans to roll out a Watson-enabled cloud service designed to help companies extract new insights from video with a level of analysis not previously possible. The service highlights IBM’s continued focus on combining artificial intelligence with the IBM Cloud to help media and entertainment companies make sense of unstructured […]