ESPN Player will bring subscribers its biggest ever season of college football coverage ahead of kick-off this weekend. The streaming service will bring full coverage of the 2019 NCAA College Football season to fans in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asian countries including Japan and Singapore anytime, anywhere. Viewers will have the […]
SSIMWAVE has revealed will be demonstrating publicly for the first time its capability to inspect Dolby Vision enabled content for file-based streaming environments. At its stand, SSIMWAVE will show how its SSIMPLUS VOD Monitor Inspector provides full-reference SSIMPLUS viewer scores of Dolby Vision source and output files. VOD Monitor Inspector helps customers take control of […]
Silverpeak, the technology investment bank, acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Sentryo, a France-based company that provides asset visibility and cybersecurity solutions for industrial control systems (ICS), on its acquisition by Cisco. Sentryo is the pioneer in solutions dedicated to managing the cyber risk of M2M networks and industrial control systems. Sentryo’s ICS CyberVision […]
Amazon Studios has announced that season three of Goliath, starring Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Billy Bob Thornton, will launch on October 4th, streaming exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. This season, the unexpected death of an old friend leads Billy McBride (Thornton) to take a case in the drought-stricken Central Valley where he comes face-to-face […]
TVN MOBILE PRODUCTION, one of Europe’s leading providers of mobile television services, has partnered with Sony Professional Solutions Europe to expand its Outside Broadcast (OB) fleet and meet new live production demands. In collaboration with partners and third-parties, Sony has designed and integrated Europe’s largest 4K HDR OB truck for TVN. The technically advanced vehicle […]
This year, 182.5 million people in the US will view content via SVoD services, representing 55.3 per cent of the population. While Netflix remains the most popular subscription service, rivals such as Hulu and Amazon Prime Video are stealing share, according to the latest OTT forecast from eMarketer. Netflix Netflix is the most popular
The Sunrise bid for UPC Switzerland has taken another acrimonious turn as the bidder has suspended board members from its largest shareholder, Freenet, after accusing them of a ‘conflict of interest’ – Freenet is opposing the deal. Responding to Freenet’s announcement that it intended to vote against the acquisition by Sunrise of Liberty Global’s Swiss […]
A number of advocacy groups have jumped into the Comcast/TiVo patent battle. The US International Trade Commission (ITC) is examining the previous preliminary verdicts made by the ITC’s presiding administrative law judge’s summary determination, which favoured TiVo. That preliminary decision has to be examined by the full ITC and a final determination made. However, a […]
YouTube set to end targeted ads on videos that are primarily watched by children, according to reports. The decision comes on the back of a case by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) which has fined YouTube owner Google for violating child privacy laws. According to the Washington Post, FTC said Google collected data from […]
Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet (Google) dominate the cloud market, but the demand for edge computing could shift the balance towards operators believes analyst Chetan Sharma. In Edge Internet Economy The Multi-Trillion Dollar Ecosystem Opportunity, Sharma estimates