Accedo, an enabler of Smart TV and IPTV apps today announced that it has developed an Olympics app for Terra (Telefónica Group), a global digital media company and Internet provider in Latin America The service will see Terra’s Smart TV customers in Brazil follow the live action from London 2012 and share their experience in […]
Shares of Rovi Corp fell 35 per cent after the digital media solutions provider forecast a bleak year ahead and two brokerages downgraded its stock. The company estimated its second-quarter results well below what analysts were expecting and drastically cut its full-year forecast on an anticipated weakening of sales in its consumer electronics division. A […]
Zeebox, the social TV provider, has released all the results of its latest sample research in the UK and US. The company says it has has published the survey data in order to generate feedback from other market participants. You can access the research here. Among other findings: In the UK 28 per cent of […]
The growth rate of catch-up services is slowing down in the UK, according to Ofcom’s latest Communications Market Report. The number viewing TV on a PC-delivered catch-up service increased by just 3 per cent year-on-year to 29 per cent for the first quarter of 2012 as catch-up services become increasingly available via connected TV. The […]
Growing demand for high-quality audio and video content among viewers, keen desire among television broadcasters to allow more channels in same spectrum and that too at lower costs, and stringent government mandates ordering termination of all analogue TV broadcasts, have been driving increased adoption of digital television, thereby driving the market for 3D TVs, says […]
Fitch Ratings believes if online TV providers are not required by law to pay re-transmission consent fees to the stations they are streaming, cable operators and others will gain material negotiating leverage with broadcasters. Last week, a Federal judge in New York rejected a request for a preliminary injunction filed by major US broadcasters against […]
Spanish broadcaster Antena 3 TV has rejected the tough limits imposed by the competition watchdog CNC on the grounds that are “unfair and discriminatory conditions” only to the benefit of rival Mediaset’s dominance in the market. Antena 3 is now reconsidering its merger plans with La Sexta as, it said, “under the umbrella of defense of […]
Research from Parks Associates finds the percentages of US smart TV owners who use their Internet-connected device to watch online video increased by over 30 per cent in six months. “The percentage of smart TV owners connecting the device to the Internet has steadily increased, from approximately 40 per cent in 2010 to 56 per […]
The two are South Korea’s technology giants, but it seems LG was not above a little industrial espionage, so a Seoul court has been told. Samsung has formally accused its flat-panel rival LG of being behind the theft of key OLED display technology. Eleven people, including at least 3 LG executives, have now been indicted […]
The value created by imported feature films for European broadcasters was $4.318 billion in 2011 for 18,600 titles across 119 channels (nearly all of which are free-to-air) over the 21 territories covered in a new report. The Imported Feature Films on European TV report stated that the 2011 figure has not changed much over the […]