Amino Communications, specialists in IPTV/OTT solutions, has selected Celeno Communications, a provider of semiconductors for multimedia Wi-Fi home networking applications, to provide a range of wireless products that complement Amino’s range of IPTV STBs. Celeno’s OptimizAIR technology will help Amino offer whole home Wi-Fi networking robust enough for HD IPTV distribution, multi-room DVR and OTT […]
Germany’s Bundesliga football rights for the 2013-14 to 2016-17 seasons are coming up for grabs. Sky Deutschland currently holds most of the rights. While the Tender documents have yet to be published (they are due out in the next few days) there’s now considerable doubt as to whether Sky’s arch rival Deutsche Telekom (DT) will […]
Google’s YouTube is streaming four billion videos every day, a 25 per cent increase in the past eight months, according to the company. Meanwhile, about 60 hours of video is now uploaded to YouTube every minute, compared with the 48 hours of video uploaded per minute last May. Last week, Google said that its business […]
Italy’s government has called a halt for the time being on the sale – or otherwise – of spare digital frequencies. The probability is that Italy will start charging for these new operating TV licences, but Industry Minister Corrado Passera told parliament on January 20th that he would suspend any decision for 90 days to […]
Data from TeleGeography show that at the end of Q3 2011 telcos worldwide had a total of 94 million pay-TV subscribers, giving them a 12 per cent share of the global pay-TV market. Leading the telco charge is America Movil with ten million pay-TV subscribers, thanks to a dominant market position in Brazil and Colombia […]
Digital TV technology specialist NDS is claiming victory in a long-running dispute with US satellite operator EchoStar and associated companies, following a US Supreme Court ruling. The Supreme Court of the United States of America has denied a petition to hear the challenge by EchoStar Satellite Corporation, now known as Dish Network LLC, EchoStar Communications […]
Virgin Media’s chief executive Neil Berkett has called on the Government to rip up the rules on licensing film and television content and disband the BBC Trust. Berkett warned that content providers will fall behind the pace of change in the way people are watching films and television unless the forthcoming Communications Bill is used […]
Findings from consultancy firm KPMG suggest that streamed TV is becoming more mainstream in the UK, with the use of online streaming services such as BBC iPlayer, ITV iPlayer or 4oD on the rise, particularly among younger people. According to the firm’s latest KPMG Media & Entertainment Barometer, among streaming services offered in the UK, […]
EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding has called for governments to strike a balance between policing the Internet to protect copyright and upholding freedom of expression. “The protection of creators must never be used as pretext to intervene in the freedom of the Internet,” Reding told the DLD conference on innovation, digital media, science and culture […]
Virgin Media has conducted a test of next-generation 4G mobile phone technology using its super-fast fibre network. It is considering launching a nationwide network of wireless transmitters connected to its fibre network to broadcast super-fast mobile services. A private test of the technology was conducted in December 2011 in Oxford Street in London, using spectrum […]