Analogue TV signals were switched off this past weekend in 5 Indian states (Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh) according to data from India’s Information & Broadcasting Ministry (I&B). The Ministry says that more than 85 per cent of its digitisation targets had been met… From 38 target cities, […]
Al Jazeera Media Network has launched new Windows Phone 8 apps for its growing mobile audiences. The new apps will provide users with full-featured news from the most popular sections of the Al Jazeera English and Al Jazeera Arabic websites – with free access to 24 hour live broadcasts and the latest current affairs programmes. […]
Al Jazeera’s US operation is gearing up for launch later this year. Top of its list is hiring around 700 staff, and opening or strengthening a dozen news bureaux around the USA, as well as boosting coverage and input from its existing international news bureaux to feed into the new English-language service. The number of […]
Netflix members watched more than four billion hours of video during the first three months of 2013, according to CEO Reed Hastings, who posted the figures on Facebook and attributed the uplift to its exclusive House Of Cards show. The post led BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield to figure out that if Netflix was a cable […]
TV viewers are not often using apps on second screens that are designed to enhance engagement with TV, according to a study by NPD Group. The research firm said that while multitasking is common, US viewers aren’t use their second-screen devices to interact directly with apps designed for the TV programmes they are watching. Only […]
Spain’s ONO has seen its TiVo offering taken up by 150,000 customers, it says. At the end of 2012 it had 100,000 TiVo customers, 11% of its TV user base. The service is available across its entire fibre network, priced at just €5 per month. “Our goal is to continue expanding the number of users and […]
ORS has selected Neotion as technical partner for the launch of its new nationwide terrestrial TV service, called simpliTV. The simpliTV bouquet is based on DVB-T2 standard and Irdeto Media Protection. Austria already completed the analogue switch off in 2011 and ORS is moving forward to the next level by launching the first DVB-T2 service […]
South Korea’s two electronics giants, Samsung and LG, are busy trading accusations of industrial espionage over OLED patents and secrets. South Korean police are formally investigating allegations of theft by Samsung employees of certain LG OLED technologies. On April 9th the police raided four Samsung factories in a search for evidence over LG’s theft allegations. […]
Gary Davey, SVP Programming at Sky Deutschland, speaking at MIPTV’s special 4K event, said he believed that at least half of Sky’s current portfolio of 65 HDTV channels would be showing 4K content within five years of Sky launching a dedicated 4K Ultra-HDTV channel. “I suspect SES will be first in supplying a feed of […]
Italy’s Communications Authority (AgCom) has unanimously approved the final version of the regulations for the DTT frequency auction. According to a statement by the regulator, the measure will now be forwarded to the Ministry of Economic Development, which is entrusted with the task of approving the invitation to tender and managing the process. The new […]