Time Warner Cable has bowed to pressure from rights holders and removed several channels from its app for sending linear channels from subscriber bundles to their iPad. The cable company withdrew channels including MTV and FX, after receiving complaints from Viacom, Discovery Communications and the News Corp. They claim that the iPad app is a […]
Four Hollywood studios have agreed to make their films available on pay-television two months after their theatrical release. Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Studios and 20th Century Fox have agreed to release their films on a “premium video-on-demand” basis with DirecTV. The move sets up a showdown with movie theatre chains. Subscribers will have […]
State-owned broadcaster RTVE ended its first year without ad revenue with a deficit of €47.1 million – a sum roughly the same as the amount it claims the telecos and private broadcasters are side stepping in the levy system set up to compensate it for the loss of airtime sales. RTVE has accused commercial broadcasters […]
Not all 3D glasses are the same, much to viewers’ chagrin. Panasonic is linking with active shutter glasses specialists Xpand3D to come up with a universal standard for 3D viewing. The idea is that the proposed standard would be good for cinemas, TV, computers and home TV projectors. The standard, dubbed M-3DI, is hoped to […]
Korean CE manufacturer Samsung has admitted that production and commercialisation of glasses-free 3D TV is unlikely to occur in the next 10 years. Although Samsung unveiled a 55-inch glasses-free 3DTV prototype in mid-March and even said it was possible to see such a product on store shelves in about three years, the company is now […]
Two of the OTT and DVD service’s most important content providers have changed their distribution agreements with the company, reflecting growing anxiety about the pace of growth at the DVD subscription and movie streaming company. Showtime, the pay-TV service owned by CBS, this said it would remove all of its first-run programming from Netflix’s streaming […]
Motorola Mobility has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Swedish IPTV software provider Dreampark. The acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter of 2011. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Dreampark’s software portfolio maximises operator flexibility and performance by taking advantage of the powers of open standards, such as HTML and scalable […]
The future of German cable MSO KBW – put up for sale by its Swedish private equity firm owner EQT – is in the balance as Liberty Global raises its bid to $4.5 billion in an effort to beat off CVC Capital Partners who are said to have tabled $4.17 billion. A third bid had […]
The iPad, and the PC tablets that follow in its wake, are hitting the top of broadcaster agendas. Sky News has announced the launch of its first iPad app. For now it is free but will be restricted to Sky subscribers later in the year. “Sky subscribers will get it as part of their package, […]
Netflix has upped its stalking of pay-TV operators by bidding as much as $100 million for exclusive US rights to a new political series starring Kevin Spacey. House of Cards, a remake of the BBC political drama, is directed by The Social Network’s David Fincher and is being auctioned by Media Rights Capital. The bidding […]