By prioritising the delivery of rich visual data, researchers at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) – Singapore’s lead public sector agency that spearheads economic-oriented research to advance scientific discovery and technological innovation – have demonstrated that the quality of streaming video can be vastly improved on even the most crowded wireless networks. […]
NBC Sports Group and AT&T will offer the first live US telecast of the Premier League in ultra HD this weekend to eligible DirecTV 4K customers. DirecTV will distribute the coverage (on channel 106) in the UHD format beginning this on January 21st with Manchester City vs Tottenham. Premier League coverage in UHD will continue […]
With Australia’s Internet Service Providers (ISPs) now blocking their customers from a number of websites used to download copyrighted movies and TV shows for free, Roy Morgan Research has studied whose customers are most likely to pay for their downloads. According to the firm, 1.45 million Australians aged 14+ buy movies and TV show downloads […]
Netflix has reported 7.05 million net new members globally in Q4 2016 against its forecast of 5.2 million and 2016’s Q4 performance of 5.59 million. This represents the largest quarter of net additions in its history and was driven by strong acquisition trends in both its US and International segments. As the streaming giant revealed […]
The BBC iPlayer has been ranked third on YouGov BrandIndex’s list of the UK’s top brands, with SVoD service Netflix a new entry into the top ten in sixth position. YouTube also made the top ten in ninth. For the third year in a row, discount supermarket chains Aldi and Lidl fill the two top […]
Global performance management company Nielsen has agreed a multi-year deal with multiplay telco AT&T to include anonymised set-top box data from connected homes subscribed to AT&T’s DirecTV and U-Verse services into Nielsen’s local and national TV currency ratings services. According to Nielsen, further enhancing the Nielsen Total Audience strategy, the data from the AT&T set-top […]
The World Motor Sport Council has unanimously approved the change of control of Delta Topco Limited (the holding company of the Formula One Group and thus the owner of the Commercial Rights of the FIA Formula One World Championship) from CVC Capital Partners in favour of Liberty Media Corporation at an extraordinary meeting in Geneva. […]
A survey by digital platform security specialist Irdeto has found that 74 per cent of US consumers said that producing or sharing pirated video content is illegal. Conducted online by YouGov, the survey also found that 69 per cent of respondents think that streaming or downloading pirate content is illegal. While a majority of consumers […]
The 20 highest-earning football clubs in the world generated €7.4 billion (£5.5bn) of revenue in 2015/16, an increase of 12 per cent on the previous year, according to the 20th edition of the Football Money League from business advisory firm Deloitte. Manchester United, FC Barcelona and Real Madrid complete the top three of the Money League, […]
Sky Deutschland has signed a multi-year contract extension for back-up services with global media service provider MX1. The contract ensures that, in case of any technical issues with Sky Deutschland’s main signal, the broadcaster’s programming will be restored in a short timeframe from the MX1 Broadcasting Centre in Unterföhring, Germany. The agreement includes playout and […]