In-flight entertainment and broadband supplier, Gogo, has won an order from LATAM Airlines, a Brazilian airline for Gogo’s 2Ku satellite-delivered technology. Gogo says it will fit its equipment into 100 of LATAM’s Airbus A320 aircraft and services will start during the first half of 2018 with installations to be completed during 2019. “We are delighted […]
Digital Catapult, in partnership with immersive media company Hammerhead and Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studio, has announced the launch of Dimension, a state-of-the-art volumetric and 3D capture studio for the next generation of immersive content. Dimension, based in London, harnesses six years of Microsoft research and is one of only three such studios globally, alongside […]
Broadpeak, a provider of content delivery network (CDN) and video streaming solutions for pay TV operators and content providers worldwide, has announced that Latvian telco operator Latvijas Mobilais Telefons (LMT) has deployed a comprehensive Broadpeak solution to support its new live, on-demand, and catch-up TV services. Hannu Pro provided expertise in systems integration to streamline […]
Further distribution partners have joined the MySports family, namely: Glattwerk, R. Geissmann, Fiberstream and AjoieNet are all adding the new Swiss sports channel to their line-up. The number of UPC’s distribution partners now rises to 17. MySports is the new Swiss sports channel, launched just over a month ago. Four further distribution partners have been […]
Eurosport and Bridgestone have announced a major Olympic Winter Games partnership celebrating Bridgestone’s Worldwide Olympic Partner status and amplifying its ‘Chase Your Dream, No Matter What’ campaign across Europe. As a Eurosport presenting partner for PyeongChang 2018, Bridgestone gains a prominent position across all Eurosport platforms and screens from TV and on-demand, to social media […]
Apple has hired former Channel 4 creative chief Jay Hunt to head a new programme commissioning team in London. The appointment is part of a $1 billion a year push by the tech giant into original content production to compete with the likes of Netflix and Amazon, Hunt, who is due to start the new […]
Football’s governing body FIFA has confirmed that the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia will see all matches produced in UHD/HDR, with VR and 360° VoD part of the overall production plan. Suggesting that FIFA TV has a “proud legacy” of pioneering new broadcast technology to ensure that football fans around the world can enjoy the […]
It seems that US Millennials are not alone in their pursuit of cost savings and curated content as research from Mintel reveals that the same percentage of Millennial, Generation X and Baby Boomer consumers (10 per cent respectively) say their households do not subscribe to a pay-TV service. And while some Americans are ‘cord-cutters,’ many […]
Proposals to end the equal distribution of overseas TV money have been abandoned after the so called ‘big six’ Premier League clubs failed to reach an agreement. The six richest clubs – Manchester City, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspurs, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea – wanted their appeal reflected in their income. A plan suggested 35 per […]
Operators need to take a holistic approach to their network and embrace the ‘power of and’ if they are to meet rising customer demand, improve scalability and reduce network complexity, accoirdng to Nokia’s president of Fixed Networks. Speaking during a keynote conference session at Broadband World Forum, Federico Guillén told the packed conference session there […]