Award-winning writer, director, and producer Patty Jenkins has agreed a multi-year overall deal to produce new series exclusively at Netflix. “We’re thrilled to welcome Patty Jenkins to Netflix. Her trailblazing work has pushed boundaries and she confidently tells stories that leave an unforgettable mark. We look forward to fostering her many ideas and helping them […]
Viaccess-Orca (VO), a provider of OTT and TV platforms, content protection, and advanced data solutions, has partnered with Zodiac Systems, a specialist in cloud and device video service-delivery software. The partnership will offer a joint solution making it easier and more cost-effective for TV operators to deploy VO’s cloud-hosted TVaaS and Service Delivery Platform (SDP) […]
DVEO, a leading TV/OTT equipment supplier, is now shipping their new real time Multi Camera Synchronizer with IP inputs and outputs, which relies on time delaying IP transport streams. It debuts in a few weeks at the IBC Show in Stand 14.D24 in Amsterdam, September 13-17. The Multichannel Video Synchronizer is designed to time synchronize […]
Digital entertainment platform ZEE5 has curated a special line-up of content including films, new Malayalam Originals and Onam-special episodes of popular reality shows and dramas especially for its global audiences on the occasion of Onam. The exciting lineup includes the latest Malayalam blockbusters like the recent Malayalam hit, Madhura Raja starring South superstar Mammooty in […]
The Ultra HD Forum will use IBC 2019 to release the latest version (v2.1) of its Guidelines, which now includes plugfest-proven refinements and standards-based enhancements such as DTS-UHD audio, and more detailed case studies like the BBC’s UHD coverage of the 2019 Football Association Challenge Cup. The Forum will present new demonstrations of the technologies […]
The number of gross SVoD subscriptions will increase by 91 per cent – or 462 million – between 2018 and 2024 to reach 970 million. The total will climb by 124 million in 2019 alone, according to Digital TV Research.
Amazon has announced a lineup of more than 15 new Fire TV Edition products for customers around the globe, including the first Fire TV Edition smart TV with built-in far-field voice control, the first OLED Fire TV Edition smart TV, and the first-ever Fire TV Edition soundbar. “Customers have told us how much they use […]
Analysis by media analyst firm Ampere has predicted where the next Netflix originals are likely to be produced. A number of Netflix markets appear to be underweight in terms of their local original production activity relative to the importance of the market to Netflix. Other markets that have yet to receive local production investment are […]
An extraordinary shareholders’ meeting of Italian broadcaster Mediaset has approved the merger with Mediaset España into holding company MediaForEurope (MFE). The transaction should be approved today, September 5th, by shareholders of Mediaset España. All the Mediaset and Mediaset España shares will be cancelled and the shareholders will receive MFE ordinary shares. Netherlands-based MFE will bring […]
Investment bank Exane/BNPP says that the FCC has to submit a report to the US Congress on its thinking in regard to the proposed reversioning of some 180 MHz of satellite C-band by September 23rd. Exane says that “While this report may not contain the full details of (or be published before) its Final Order, […]