Spaniards are watching more and more pay-TV. In 2016, time watching pay-TV content was an average of 20.4 per cent of all TV consumption – the highest percentage in its history, according to consultancy firm Barlovento Comunicación. Pay-TV penetration
Vivendi has denied reports that it is willing to sell its 24 per cent stake in Telecom Italia (TIM) to facilitate its plan to form a European media conglomerate that would include Italy’s Mediaset. Selling TIM, valued at just over €3 billion, would ease Italian regulators’ concerns over the French media company’s influence in the […]
By prioritising the delivery of rich visual data, researchers at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) – Singapore’s lead public sector agency that spearheads economic-oriented research to advance scientific discovery and technological innovation – have demonstrated that the quality of streaming video can be vastly improved on even the most crowded wireless networks. […]
The Digital Production Partnership (DPP) has published its survey report on the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), and revealed a technology industry trying to harness voice control and artificial intelligence to make consumers love its products. The report provides unique insight into the famous technology show by analysing not only the show itself, but how […]
A comprehensive 23-page report on Vivendi from equity analysts at Deutsche Bank –Root Canal – presents some potential good news for French pay-TV operator Canal Plus Group. In particular, the bank says that Vivendi – and Canal Plus’s new management – is now positioned to “radically restructure” its relationships with France’s telcos, and especially their […]
NBC Sports Group and AT&T will offer the first live US telecast of the Premier League in ultra HD this weekend to eligible DirecTV 4K customers. DirecTV will distribute the coverage (on channel 106) in the UHD format beginning this on January 21st with Manchester City vs Tottenham. Premier League coverage in UHD will continue […]
Sony Pictures Networks India’s proposal to invest in ZEEL-owned Taj Television, has been approved by India’s Competition Commission. Taj TV’s ‘Ten Sports’ portfolio of sports channels is the prize that Sony is after. The scheme sees ZEEL and Sony creating Aqua Holdings, established in August 2016, to carry out the investment whereby Sony India’s Competition […]
Despite a somewhat omnipresence on modern connected devices, gaming giant Nintendo has revealed that none of the leading video streaming apps will be available on its new Switch console. Nintendo, responding to questioning from video games website Kotaku, stated that the likes of Netflix, Amazon Prime Instant Video and BBC’s iPlayer, will not be coming […]
With Australia’s Internet Service Providers (ISPs) now blocking their customers from a number of websites used to download copyrighted movies and TV shows for free, Roy Morgan Research has studied whose customers are most likely to pay for their downloads. According to the firm, 1.45 million Australians aged 14+ buy movies and TV show downloads […]
Switzerland’s high-end clock maker SpectraTime is apparently creating headaches for European and other satellite builders. SpectraTime makes expensive – but highly accurate – Atomic Clocks for use in satellites, including Europe’s Galileo GPS craft, but also other navigation satellites used by China and India. The trouble is that they are, according to the European Space […]