OTE has won the English Premier League football TV rights for this coming August, and then up to the 2016/2017 season. OTE’s COO Zacharias Piperidis said that addition of the English Premier League will be added to OTE TV’s other exclusive coverage of all the major national soccer championships, including the Spanish, Italian and German […]
UK transmission giant Arqiva has received a £867 million cash injection ($1.4 billion) from its existing shareholders. This new equity funding will now release a further £3.7 billion of refinanced loans and bonds to slot into place. The new equity will be used to pay down debt, and thereby help Arqiva achieve a BBB investment […]
Comcast Corporation and Fox Networks (FN) have reached an agreement for a new distribution pact to deliver Fox Broadcasting’s (FOX) and Fox Television Stations’ (FTS) wide array of entertainment, sports and local news content to Comcast Xfinity TV customers across televisions, computers, smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles and Internet-enabled televisions. The renewal supports the companies’ mutual […]
Following the success of its House of Cards original drama commission, Internet television network Netflix is teaming up with DreamWorks Animation to create the first ever Netflix Original Series for kids. Based on the highly-anticipated DreamWorks Animation movie Turbo, premièring in theatres this summer, the Netflix series Turbo: F.A.S.T. (Fast Action Stunt Team) débuts exclusively […]
Sony Corp is being sued by high-end camera maker Red Digital for alleged patent infringements. Last week another camera maker ARRI settled an action with Red Digital. Red’s digital cameras are used on many Hollywood movies, notably The Hobbit trilogy. This fresh action says that three very high-end Sony cameras use and “embody the [patents] […]
upc cablecom is now offering television via the Internet and on mobile devices to all its Swiss customers with an existing digital TV subscription. There are now two options for accessing these services: Horizon TV Online, via the Internet, and the Horizon TV app for iPhone and iPad. Access is free of charge for existing […]
Back on December 8th, a Proton rocket carrying a communications satellite for Gazprom failed to deliver the satellite to its correct orbit. The craft was built by Thales Alenia Space. As a result all Proton flights were suspended while an investigation was carried out. An expert review has now concluded that a bearing failed which […]
Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, has established a development centre focused on R&D and product engineering efforts based in Paris, France. The expanded software and security engineering team will aid in the advancement of the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) suite of […]
At Mobile World Congress, Ericsson will launch a new unified content delivery network (CDN) solution to address the global consumer shift to broadband mobility. The new Ericsson Media Delivery Network solution is designed to unite the delivery of managed and unmanaged content over fixed and mobile networks by leveraging Ericsson’s packet core and radio capabilities […]
Beamr, the media compression and delivery experts behind the JPEGmini photo compression technology, has unveiled Beamr Video, enabling the delivery of high quality video at low bitrates using standard H.264 video streaming. Capable of supporting any resolution up to 4K UltraHD, Beamr Video’s patent-pending optimisation technology automatically reduces the bitrate of H.264 video streams by […]