Simon Fell, Director of Technology and Innovation, is to leave the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) when his term comes to an end in February 2018. Fell has led the Technology and Innovation team since 2013 and overseen a period where the pace of change has quickened globally across the industry. Public service broadcasters have had […]
YouTube has debuted virtual reality video series The Confessional, featuring comedians Trevor Noah, Judd Apatow and Howie Mandel. The show was filmed at Montreal’s Just for Laughs comedy festival in July and features comedians telling embarrassing, true stories. New episodes will continue to be added over the coming weeks. Nearly half a million immersive videos […]
Roku is making its streaming platform available to consumers and content publishers in Argentina, Central America, Chile, Colombia and Peru. The company unveiled two players that will come to market in the coming weeks – the Roku Express+ which for HD streaming, and the Roku Streaming Stick+ capable of streaming HD, 4K and 4K HDR […]
Alchimie – Dynamic Digital Distribution has struck a deal with global media company SPI International to promote and monetise five of its linear channels on the OTT market in Europe and Australia. The channels are: FightBox: a channel that proposes a combination of the finest combat sports from around the globe, such as boxing, wrestling, […]
GeoGuard, the geo-piracy prevention experts and Toolbox, the entertainment business facilitator, have announced that GeoGuard’s studio-approved and third party tested anti-fraud toolkit has been integrated with Cloud Pass, the Toolbox user authentication module. “It’s very important to many of the MSOs with TV Everywhere services running on our solutions that geo-piracy can be prevented,” said […]
TiVo has announced that BuzzAngle Music, an innovator in music consumption analytics, has licensed Music Metadata from TiVo. The combination of data analytics from BuzzAngle Music embedded with Music Metadata from TiVo directly connects consumption to recommendations, providing some of the most accurate research findings currently available in the industry. “Thanks to its vast metadata […]
Google Home, the smart wireless speaker, has added voice control support for YouTube TV. Users can use their voice to switch channels, rewind content and add captions, amongst other options. Available in most major US cities, YouTube TV offers live local broadcast feeds from ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC, as well as popular cable networks […]
Cisco is meeting with its cable operator customers at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo to demonstrate how it is disrupting the industry through its technology innovations. Cisco’s Infinite Broadband Remote PHY solution (RPHY) for cable access networks, the industry’s only standards-based distributed access architecture (DAA) on the market. Remote PHY refers to the technique of moving the physical ‘PHY’ circuit […]
Fishing TV, the VoD platform for fishing content, is in the initial stages of shaping World Fishing Day. The idea will see Fishing TV partner with production companies, brands and fishing organisations globally, to deliver a network of free fishing events and to broadcast 24-hours of live fishing content to their audience. Planned to take […]
The inaugural HbbTV Awards 2017 were held in Rome on October 17th after the first day of this year’s HbbTV Symposium. The HbbTV Association confirmed the following winners which were decided by a panel of judges, and led by Matthew Huntington, CTO of Freesat: Best Use of HbbTV for Advertising and Promotion: R2B2 sro, Automated […]