Accedo, an enabler of Smart TV and IPTV applications, has joined CASBAA, the association for digital pay TV, content, platforms, advertising, and video delivery across Asia. Accedo has recently expanded its already well-established Asian operations, in order to meet the growing market demand for interactive TV applications and platforms.
The switch from analogue to digital TV services in London next month will be celebrated with a spectacular light show at the Crystal Palace broadcast tower. Arqiva, the company which has engineered the UK’s digital switchover project (DSO), is installing more than 6 tonnes of lighting equipment on the tower in readiness for the light […]
Commuters using London Overground train stations are set to get 60 minutes of free Wi-Fi each day thanks to a deal between the London Overground Rail Operations Limited and BSkyB subsidiary The Cloud. The rollout across 56 stations will begin this summer and is scheduled to be completed before the end of the year. Users […]
Americans will pay to consume more movies online in 2012 than they will on physical video formats, marking the first year that legal, Internet-delivered movies will outstrip those of DVDs and Blu-ray discs combined. The legal, paid consumption of movies online in the US will reach 3.4 billion views or transactions in 2012, approximately 1.0 […]
Andrew Wallace is leaving Eutelsat as CCO. He is being replaced by Jean-François Leprince-Ringuet on April 16th. Leprince-Ringuet is a 30-year veteran in IT and telecoms, having held commercial strategy, sales and marketing positions in Europe and North America at IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Cap Gemini and Bull, and has also been President of the IDATE Foundation. […]
Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings has made the surprising admission that he believes arch-rival BSkyB should not have its movie channels regulated by the UK competition authorities. Hastings said that he was looking for a “fair fight” with Sky over content rights but that immediate regulatory intervention was not right. “Sky is a fearsome competitor, […]
In a riposte to C4’s Jonathan Allan’s assertions that TV advertising was all about data and connectivity, ITV’s group commercial director Simon Daglish told a Carat advertising event that connectivity and evolving technologies will not end the role of traditional TV channels, they will only make them stronger. Daglish warned against overestimating the effect evolving […]
The evidence is mounting that even though cable TV customers are not cutting the cord en masse, they are cutting back. Research from Altman Vilandrie & Co, suggests that about 20 per cent of consumers now shave pay TV services, spending progressively less on their packages as more of what they want to watch becomes […]
According to a report from TDG, eight in ten US broadband households now use a home network, meaning they are able to access a growing variety of net-based video and applications on a growing number of devices. Nearly 40 per cent of home network routers are now located in the primary living room, more than […]
Samsung and SES are to partner to provide free satellite TV services for six countries in Africa. In an effort to drive digitalisation, the free service will be available on high-end Samsung LED TVs, and will provide access to 60 free-to-air TV channels (30 English and 30 French). The TVs are fitted with built-in satellite […]