Advanced Television

Avengers: Endgame sets digital download record

Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame has predictably debuted at Number 1 on the Official Film Chart  – setting the highest-ever opening week of digital download sales in the process. Just five weeks after officially becoming the highest-grossing film of all time at the box-office (surpassing Avatar), the epic superhero motion picture – which serves as a culmination […]

August 28, 2019By Nik Roseveare

Survey: 70% of schools considering eSports programme

Data from Extreme Networks and eCampus News shows that the eSports industry is nascent, but growing rapidly. The report, which surveyed 281 technical and administrative leaders across K-12 and higher education in North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Europe, and Middle East, found that 1 in 5 schools already have an eSports programme, and 71 […]

August 28, 2019

IoT/M2M satetllite business worth $11.6bn over 10 years

A report from Northern Sky Research (NSR) predits that the market for satellite-based Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) connectivity will be worth $11.6 billion (€10.4bn) over the next 10 years. All M2M and IoT applications will grow, with total retail revenues to rise at 6.6 per cent CAGR over the coming decade, with […]

August 28, 2019By Chris Forrester

Openreach provides Outer Hebrides with 1Gb

Two of the UK’s most westerly island communities are now among the best connected too – as new full fibre broadband networks go live in the Outer Hebrides/Na h-Eileanan Siar. Grimsay is a tiny island roughly three miles long and half again in width, joined to North Uist and Benbecula by a causeway. A single-track […]

August 28, 2019

Speedcast situation worsens

Australia-based satellite services provider Speedcast International has been hammered by the stock market, and its latest results have not done much to improve the situation. A profits warning in July created a 40 per cent fall in its share price, and yesterday’s numbers prompted another 32 per cent tumble. Speedcast is dropping its Chairman as […]

August 28, 2019By Chris Forrester

Licensee fined £2.8K for illegal Sky Sports

Thomas John Holland of the Goat Inn in Sheerness, Kent in the southeast of England has been convicted of three offences of dishonest reception of a television transmission, in this case, Sky televised football matches, with the intent to avoid payment of the applicable charge. Sky Sports is only available to licensed premises in the […]

August 28, 2019By Colin Mann

Gogo improves liquidity

In-Flight Connectivity company Gogo has secured a $30 million revolving credit facility. Chicago-based Gogo took the opportunity to reaffirm its overall guidance for this year’s Free Cash Flow improvement to be at least $100 million. “The closing of our $30 million revolving credit facility provides additional buffer capital and represents another important step in the […]

August 28, 2019By Chris Forrester

Kacific signs with ABS Subic Bay

Singapore-based (but Vanuatu-registered) Kacific Broadband is readying its Kacific1 which will be a high-throughput satellite operating over the Pacific and south-East Asia regions. Boeing is building the so-called ‘condominium’ craft and it is scheduled for launch later this year on a SpaceX rocket. The satellite is better known as SkyPerfect’s JCSAT-18, which will take the […]

August 28, 2019By Chris Forrester

HbbTV releases Version 2019-2 of Conformance Test Suite

The HbbTV Association, a global initiative dedicated to providing an open standard for the delivery of advanced interactive TV services through broadcast and broadband networks for connected TV sets and set-top boxes, is pleased to announce that the HbbTV Testing Group has published a new version of the HbbTV Conformance Test Suite. The new version […]

August 28, 2019

FIBA World Cup adds AR, SuperFeed and referee-audio

With the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 due to tip-off next week across China, FIBA has said it has “the biggest and most ambitious TV, digital and social media coverage global production plan ever”. This World Cup will mark a big change in the production, coverage, presentation and multi-platform availability of the event and will […]

August 28, 2019