YouSee and Media Distillery partner using AI to improve the television viewing experience and provide a clean on-demand experience, offering an experience similar to that of online video subscription services. Media Distillery provides an AI-based solution to the problem of accurately identifying the true start times of TV-programmes. Viewers expect programmes to be available immediately, […]
Sky Mobile will offer the new Fairphone 3 in the UK – the latest ethical, modular smartphone from Fairphone made with fairly sourced, recycled materials – and designed to last. Fairphone, a Dutch social enterprise, develops smartphones that are designed and produced with reduced environmental impact. Their approach focuses on using responsibly-sourced, conflict-free, recyclable and […]
African countries must act quickly and decisively to become leaders on the global economic stage. Digitalization is providing the continent with the opportunity to accelerate growth and rapidly expand struggling economies – but it’s a small window and decision-makers must get a strategy in place now in order to succeed. Siemens, in conjunction with Frost […]
Disney has revealed the film titles and TV series that will be available at launch for its Disney+ SVoD service. At the D23 Expo fan convention in Anaheim, California, it was announced that Disney+ will initially have 300 movie titles – rising to 500 within the first 12 months. Some 100 of them will be […]
The 5G era is set to drive the next wave of growth in video streaming, with 78 per cent of US consumers indicating they will expand this activity as they adopt the next-generation wireless standard in smartphones and home-networking solutions, according to a survey conducted by IHS Markit Digital Orbit. When asked to name which […]
Recognising that the TV industry is in an age of changing viewing habits, Charlotte Moore, BBC Director of Content, has unveiled a raft of new commissions for BBC One at the Edinburgh TV Festival and spoken about the BBC’s approach to commissioning new programmes. In the last year, BBC One has brought audiences Bodyguard, Line […]
Portugal’s National Communications Authority (Anacom) has defined the timetable for the release of the 700 MHz band, currently used for DTT, for the implementation of 5G mobile telephony. The change, which will have to be implemented by DTT network operator Meo (Altice Portugal), will be done over a six-month period, starting in the south of […]
Bowenvale Limited (Bowenvale) and Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings Limited (AsiaSat) have confirmed that the proposal for the privatisation of AsiaSat by way of a scheme of arrangement has been approved at a Court Meeting. Approximately 99.98 per cent of the shares held by the shareholders of the Company other than Bowenvale (the Scheme Shareholders) that […]
The Latin American edition of the 2019 Pay-TV Innovation Forum, from content protection and multiscreen television solutions provider NAGRA and international research and strategy consultancy MTM, has unveiled the challenges, opportunities and priorities that are driving the future of the Latin American pay-TV market. The report features insights collected from senior executives representing leading pay-TV […]
Sky will start offering programming from Love Nature, the all-4K channel which is owned by Canada-based Blue Ant Media, later this year the channel will broadcast as part of Sky’s ‘on demand’ service and to UK, Germany and Italian subscribers. However, with precious few UHD channel transmissions available, will this move start something of a […]