The new PlayStation Store has gone live in the UK, after initial “teething problems” meant last week’s roll-out was stalled in Europe. The store – which offers games, movies and TV shows to rent or buy – is now more visually-oriented and carousel-based to make it quicker and easier to browse. The UI makes use […]
ALi Corporation, a set-top-box solution provider, has announced that ALi and MNITI have agreed to join forces on introducing a reference STB solution to assist Russian STB manufacturers in the deployment of digital terrestrial television adopting the DVB-T2 standard. MNITI, Moscow Scientific-Research Television Institute, is the leading organisation in Russia in the field of television […]
Modern Times Group warned the market that its pay-TV margins in the Nordic region would halve next year as a result of increasing competition, and its shares fell more than 20 per cent and wiping SKr4 billion ($610m) from its market value. The company said its Nordic pay-TV margin would fall from 20 per cent […]
The US’s Center for Copyright Information (CCI) – a collaborative effort between content creators in the movie and music industries and leading IPSs to help educate the public and deter copyright infringement – is close to implementing the Copyright Alert System (CAS) it initially announced in July 2011. The body says its top priority has […]
Tim Davie, the head of BBC’s director of audio and music and passed over candidate for DG, has been appointed as the new chief executive of BBC Worldwide. The appointment brings an end to John Smith’s 23-year career with the corporation. Davie, a former Pepsi marketer who has been running the BBC’s music division since […]
Demand for tablets continues to gain traction, with the global market achieving shipments of 25.5 million units in Q2 2012, representing 92 per cent year-on-year growth, according to the latest Tablet Tracking report from Futuresource Consulting. The report reveals significant industry growth across the key world territories, with the majority of tablet market activity still […]
The BBC iPlayer recorded a record-breaking 199 million requests in September – driven by an increase in radio requests, which grew 8 per cent compared with the previous month. This is the highest ever number of requests per month. Requests-per-week remained high throughout September (43 million average) and increased across the month, boosted by the […]
Private equity firm OpCapita, which bought UK retailer Comet less than a year ago for £2, is exploring bids to buy the business. BBC reports that it is examining a number of bids from interested parties. Comet operates 240 stores in the UK. Sir John Clare, formerly chief executive of rival Dixons Retail, joined the […]
If traditions of TV viewing from decades past have held in any time period, primetime seems the most likely candidate. But a new GfK paper on trends in US primetime shows that Generation Y (ages 13 to 32) is 30 per cent less likely to be watching a TV network or channel “live” in the […]
BBC World News, along with other international broadcasters, are being deliberately jammed by forces inside Syrian according to John Williams, the broadcaster’s foreign editor. Williams said that the BBC’s international TV network was being blocked in what he described as a “blatant violation of international TV regulations”. Williams Tweets: “BBC World News being deliberately jammed […]