Eros Now, the OTT South Asian entertainment platform owned by Eros International, a global Indian entertainment company, has announced its partnership with Wasu Media to deliver Bollywood and original Indian content to Chinese digital customers. Wasu Media is a major cable television, broadband network OTT and IPTV service provider in China. Commenting on the partnership, […]
AC Milan, the Italian top flight football team, has released a new mobile app exclusively on the iOS platform. The app offered free live stream of a friendly match at launch this pask weekend, as the team beat Cesena by 3 goals to nil. Available for free in Italian and English, the App offers an […]
Dalet, a provider of solutions and services for broadcasters and content professionals, has signed a deal with Austrian private broadcaster group ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4 to fully revamp their media operation with the agile Dalet Galaxy five Media Asset Management (MAM), Workflow Orchestration and Editorial platform. The Dalet Galaxy five installation will equip the broadcaster with […]
Technicolor has announced the global availability of its Wi-Fi XL solution for network service providers (NSPs) seeking to offer improved in-home wireless performance while managing the growing complexity associated with offering multi-user gigabit services to consumers. Technicolor’s gateways and extenders developed for the Wi-Fi XL solution are built to support the latest Wi-Fi 6 and […]
The Walt Disney Company has confirmed global launch dates and pricing for Disney+ in Canada, The Netherlands, Australia, and New Zealand, and announced it has reached global agreements with nearly all the major platforms to distribute the Disney+ app across partner mobile and connected TV devices. Disney+ will offer what the company calls ‘unparalleled content […]
The BBC has vexed a number of television production companies after attempting to extend iPlayer shows from one month to one year – without raising the licensing fees they pay for the content. Earlier this month, Ofcom ruled that the iPlayer service could extend the amount of time box sets could be viewed from 30 […]
US wireless carriers have long said they may slow video traffic on their networks to avoid congestion and bottlenecks. But new research shows the throttling happens pretty much everywhere all the time. Researchers from Northeastern University and University of Massachusetts Amherst conducted more
Mediaset’s new OTT platform, Mitele Plus, which streams live La Liga matches, saw its debut turn to fiasco with many subscribers taking to social media to accuse the service of fraud under the hashtag #MiTelePlusEstafa. The service experienced numerous transmission cuts and was not available at all on LG and Samsung Smart TVs contrary to […]
Japanese investment fund SoftBank has written down the value of its significant stake in satellite constellation OneWeb by £380 million (€414.7m). OneWeb has also attracted investment cash from Virgin Group, Airbus and others, and while it already has 6 trial satellites orbiting, plans on increasing the fleet by about 650 satellites over the next 2 […]
Back in June TiVo claimed a victory in its long battle with Comcast over key patents following an initial decision by the US International Trade Commission (ITC) which favoured TiVo. The ITC in its preliminary decision found that Comcast had violated several of TiVo’s key technology patents. An earlier decision (in November 2017) also by […]