Sky is aiming to become the home of high-quality virtual reality (VR) content with the launch of a brand new app, Sky VR. The app, available now for anyone to download for free, showcases a range of immersive, 360-degree videos from Sky, and the best content from Sky’s partners including Star Wars: Red Carpet, Anthony […]
Andrew Griffith, chief operating officer and CFO of Sky, has called for Openreach, BT’s broadband infrastructure arm, to be separated from the telco to fix what he calls “Britain’s lagging Internet”. Writing an opinion piece in the Daily Telegraph, Griffith argues that there is a fundamental conflict of interest while Openreach remains vertically integrated within […]
Live streaming TV platform TVPlayer has completed a £5 million (€5.75m) investment round led by global media content company A+E Networks. TVPlayer is a freemium over-the-top TV service in the UK which offers all of the country’s major free to air channels, as well as a pay-TV bundle of 30+ premium channels for £4.99 per […]
A California man has sentenced by a US Federal Court for criminal copyright infringement for illegally posting screener versions of two movies – The Revenant and The Peanuts Movie – to a publicly accessible website. As a result of the illegal upload, The Revenant was available for download six days before its limited release in […]
Beleaguered French pay-TV operator Canal+ is extending its reach with the agreement of a carriage deal that sees a range of its channels now included in the Freebox Revolution offering from multiplay operator Iliad. Free has launched a new package: Freebox Revolution with TV by Canal Panorama and including access to the myCanal app. Thanks […]
Overall satisfaction with alternative video services such as streaming and transactional-based OTT offerings is considerably higher than it is with traditional pay television service, spurring an increase in cord-cutting from 2015, according to three studies from marketing information services firm J.D. Power.
ICT solutions provider Huawei has released VideoSense, what it says is first video experience visualisation management solution, marking a shift from KPI-centric passive network Operations and Maintenance (O&M) to user experience-centric proactive network management. It is designed to deliver video experience with visualised, manageable, and optimisable features to help operators achieve business success in the […]
Following mounting criticism from certain parties and support from others, the FCC has announced that its proposed Set-Top Box Order has been removed from the September 29 Open Meeting Agenda. The proposal will go on the Commission’s circulation list and remain under consideration by Commissioners. In a Statement, Chairman Tom Wheeler, Commissioner Mignon Clyburn and […]
Eric Xu, Deputy Chairman of the Board and Rotating CEO, Huawei, has revealed that the ICT solutions provider is stepping up its role in supporting telcos’ video operations better to enable them to develop successful businesses. Speaking at the Ultra-Broadband Forum 2016 in Frankfurt, Xu noted that at the previous year’s event in Madrid, Huawei […]
According to the findings of a report – UK Television in Focus – prepared by professional accountancy body the ICAEW and consultancy firm PwC, substantial investment and volume of deals in the sector are being fuelled by new digital technologies, fast-changing consumer trends and big changes in the international environment. PwC forecasts the global television […]