The number of pay DTH homes for 80 countries covered in a Digital TV Research report will be 220 million by end-2017, up from 154 million at end-2011 and 91 million at end-2007. India will lead the sector with 50.9 million pay DTH homes in 2017, followed by the US with 36.5 million. Russia (14.7 […]
Ofcom has said it is “fully prepared for litigation” should any of the networks decide to sue, following the much-disputed spectrum auction, which will bring 4G superfast mobile Internet to the UK next year. Debate about the largest sale of British airwaves has dragged on for years, with each of the four networks threatening to […]
Several UK Internet service providers have refused to sign a code of conduct designed to guarantee “full and open access” to the net. Ten ISPs including BT, O2 and TalkTalk backed the agreement, promising not to restrict or block content unless there was a reason to deploy “reasonable traffic management practices”. But Virgin Media said […]
ESPN continues to add to its line-up of live top-flight football with the acquisition of French Ligue 1 rights and renewals of its agreements to cover Italian Serie A, Eredivisie and the Russian Premier League. The agreements all include multimedia rights – across TV and digital media – in the UK and Ireland. The new […]
French media solutions provider Technicolor posted a net loss of €26 million in the first half of 2012, narrower than a net loss of €112 million in the first half of 2011. For six months, revenues from continuing operations amounted to €1.646 billion compared with €1.559 billion 12 months ago, an increase of 0.6 per […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its July Fixed-Mobile/CDN Routing Strategies and Router Leadership: Global Service Provider Survey, for which carriers with carrier Ethernet switches (CES) and IP edge routers were interviewed to assess their needs and analyse trends in the router and CES market. “The three-headed monster of video, mobility, and […]
Google has announced that it will soon open a new studio in London to help some of the most popular YouTube posters make their videos look more professional. Based in Google’s Soho offices in London, the creator space will include two studios, a green screen for backdrops, fully staffed editing suites and cameras based on […]
Virgin Media has been told to stop claiming its fibre broadband lets users “say bye-bye to buffering”, after a complaint from BT. BT complained to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) about an ad featuring sprinter Usain Bolt, in which Virgin suggests its service would eliminate buffering. Virgin said it considered the claim to be puffery […]
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has chosen Digital Rapids’ StreamZ Live adaptive streaming encoders and the Digital Rapids Broadcast Manager multi-encoder management software to power live online streaming of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games for viewers in Taiwan. A 14-channel deployment of StreamZ Live encoders is being used to transform live, HD source feeds of the London […]
Chinese online video site LeTV has released its new LeTV T1 Internet TV set-top box, allowing users to watch licensed content in 1080p full HD on their TV sets and supporting video data rates of up to 150 Mbps. The STB also supports 3D content and external storage devices, and can share video content with […]