Following a successful IBC, the Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) has welcomed set top box vendor ABox42, application developer Axonista, testing businesses BluFocus and Digital TV Labs, and technology companies DCC Labs and mistserver.org as new members. These new important contributors increase the breadth of industry support and give OIPF’s open specifications for Connected TV wider […]
Chellomedia’s Budapest based operation Chello Central Europe, has licensed more than 150 hours of content from BBC Worldwide for its two movie channels Film Mania and Film Café. Commenting on the deal, Levente Málnay, CEO Chello Central Europe said: “It is a great pleasure to expand the already existing BBC Worldwide content on our children’s […]
Ekioh, providers of the widely deployed TV compliant Scalable Vector Graphics engine, has announced that HwaCom Systems, a leading broadband system integrator in Taiwan, has licensed its UI engine technology for use in the Chunghwa Telecom deployment. The agreement, which covers both Ekioh’s SVG and HTML5 engines follows HwaCom’s successful competition of Chunghwa Telecom’s open tendering […]
Following the move by Carl Icahn to acquire 10 per cent of its stock, Netflix has announced that its Board of Directors adopted a stockholder rights plan (the “Rights Plan” or “Plan”) and declared a dividend distribution of one right (“Right”) for each outstanding share of Netflix common stock. The Rights Plan is intended to […]
By 2017, ABI Research expects over-the-top (OTT) revenue to quadruple to $32 billion, up from the expected $8.2 billion in 2012. Subscription services, such as Netflix, have led the OTT markets the past couple of years, which has helped push the market towards healthy growth. By 2014, however, ABI Research expects OTT rentals to surpass […]
Findings from independent survey research firm 451 Research’s ChangeWave service show that while Netflix leads among ‘paid alternative TV providers’, the Amazon Instant Video service is making big gains among consumers.din “While Netflix still holds the largest share by far of the paid alternative TV market, consumers continue to shift towards Amazon’s Instant Video service,” […]
In reporting Q3 numbers for what its President and CEO Mike Fries described as the cable MSO’s strongest quarter of the year in terms of rebased revenue and OCF performance, Liberty Global International (LGI) revealed that the introduction of its Horizon product family in the Netherlands had attracted 50,000 subscriptions and had over 125,000 unique […]
Third quarter results from Time Warner Cable, the second largest US cable operator, reveal that the company lost 140,000 video customers during the quarter. It added 85,000 Internet customers, but no phone subscribers in the residential segment. Broadband services revenue grew 14.3 per cent, including additions from Insight Communications. Time Warner Cable acquired Insight for […]
The UK’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport has revealed findings of a study that suggests the impact of radio spectrum on the UK economy is worth more than £50 billion a year. The Analysys Mason study, commissioned by Government, found spectrum use was valued at £52 billion in 2011, an increase of 25 per […]
Media engagement company Shazam and multi-platform advertising network Adforce.ie have confirmed that the new Volvo V40 commercial will be the first Shazam-enabled TV ad in Ireland. Starting November 5, when viewers use their Shazam App to tag the commercial, they will have an integrated brand experience that includes promotional links and integrated social sharing. The […]