A number of US Senators have joined forces to ask Google CEO Sundar Pichai to expand Content ID, YouTube’s copyright infringement technology, to more members of the creative community. The Senators – Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined Senators Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) […]
Indian OTT entertainment platform Eros Now, and multinational professional services network KPMG in India have published an in-depth report on India’s OTT market which projects that India will have more than 500 million online video subscribers by FY 2023, making it the second biggest market in the world after China. According to the study, 87 […]
Research by Ampere Analysis looks at the rise and rise of SVoD in the Asia-Pac region and, in particular, in Australia and New Zealand. Subscription TV homes in Australia and New Zealand have already reached the inflection point where SVoD outstrips pay-TV. Australia reached this milestone in 2017, and New Zealand in 2018. SVoD has […]
Pinewood has entered into a long-term agreement with The Walt Disney Company Limited. The arrangement will see Disney take all the stages, backlots and other production accommodation at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire. Disney is understood to have signed a 10-year lease for the space, except for a couple of TV studios. The move comes after […]
South Korean telco SK Telecom has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Samsung Electronics jointly to develop and commercialise the world’s first 5G-8K TV. The 5G-8K TV will revolutionise users’ television-watching experience by directly receiving 8K video over SK Telecom’s ultra-low latency and ultra-wideband 5G network. SK Telecom plans to apply Mobile Edge Computing […]
Roku is further expanding the Roku TV licensing programme to Europe. Hisense is the first European Roku TV partner and is expected to launch Roku TV models in the UK later this autumn. TV makers can license Roku TV reference designs and use the Roku OS to quickly build leading smart TVs. Roku TV was […]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX, in an application filing to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), is asking if it can dramatically modify its previously approved orbital plans. Musk wants the SpaceX’s fleet of ‘Starlink’ satellites to triple the number of orbital planes, each at 550 kms high. In essence, the plan is for 72 orbital rings circling […]
The HbbTV Association, a global initiative dedicated to providing open standards for the delivery of advanced interactive TV services through broadcast and broadband networks for connected TV sets and set-top boxes, has published the HbbTV specification for phase 2 of application discovery over broadband (ADB). This specification has been developed for markets in which set-top […]
Last week saw moments of high drama in the UK House of Commons as Parliament returned from its summer recess. According to data analysis from Limelight Networks, the extraordinary political events caused significant Internet traffic spikes as people streamed the major moments of the day. On September 3rd, Limelight saw 343 per cent increase in […]
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), the Nordic region’s leading streaming company, will launch its Viaplay streaming service in Iceland in the first half of 2020. Viaplay will now be available to viewers in all five Nordic countries. Viaplay already has more than 1.4 million paying subscribers across the region and offers viewers a unique combination […]