DirecTV, the largest US DTH provider, has reported first-quarter profit that saw net income climb 21 per cent to $674 million, up from $558 million a year. DirecTV added a record net 427,000 subscribers in Latin America, compared with 221,000 a year earlier. Across all markets, it added 611,000 customers. DirecTV has exceeded analyst estimates […]
Reporting its first quarter, Liberty Global says it added 251,000 organic RGUs across its networks. Turnover for the period grew 4 per cent to $2.43 billion, operating profit climbed 90 per cent to $578 million and free cash flow amounted to $265 million. President & CEO Mike Fries said the excellent additions were led by […]
News Corporation has reported a 21 per cent fall in Q1 profits suffering in comparison with the quarter last year when 3D movie Avatar was making so much money. Net profit was $682 million in the first three months of 2011. News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch said the company had struggled to match Avatar’s takings […]
Cryptography Research, Inc. (CRI) and The Athena Group, Inc. (Athena) announced an agreement which will enable Athena to develop Differential Power Analysis (DPA) countermeasures for use by licensees of CRI’s DPA patents. “As part of our focus on delivering high-quality tamper-resistant security cores to serve the needs of ASIC and FPGA customers, Athena is […]
Portugal has been selected as the first European country for the launch of AXN Black, a new channel dedicated to series and movies. AXN Black will premiere on May 9th, in High Definition, replacing anime channel Animax, in the programming offer of various Portuguese pay-TV platforms (Zon, Meo, Cabovisao, Vodafone, Optimus Clix and Ar Telecom). […]
Digital pay-TV technology solutions provider NDS and German cable MSO Tele Columbus are teaming up to launch a new HbbTV service. The service will be developed and hosted by Alcatel-Lucent, running on NDS MediaHighway set-top box software. In addition to its existing encrypted Free-TV and Pay-TV offering, the new HbbTV service will provide Tele Columbus […]
Global information management solutions provider SDL is buying Netherlands-headquartered Calamares, an internationally recognised cloud-based platform that allows enterprises to centrally compose, enrich, publish and distribute video and other rich-media assets. Calamares supports all media platforms, systems and devices – from the Web and mobile to Internet Protocol television (IPTV) and social media platforms. The gross […]
A coalition of artists in music and film has sued CBS Interactive Inc. and CNET Networks, Inc. for mass-scale copyright infringement in Los Angeles federal court. This lawsuit is based on the defendants’ direct participation in massive copyright infringement on peer-to-peer (‘P2P’) systems, such as LimeWire, that are used to copy and distribute songs, films […]
Panasonic, the Fédération Française de Tennis (FFT) and Eurosport have confirmed that the 2011 French Tennis Open, Roland Garros, is to be broadcast live in 3D into homes across Europe (excluding France). Following the success of the multi-day 3D broadcast of the 2010 tournament in European retail stores, Panasonic and the FFT have renewed and […]
Panasonic is to co-fund a series of six 3D short-form movies with DirecTV. The object, as well as creating content for broadcast, is to train filmmakers on the new technology. The project, part of DirecTV’s n3D Film Invitational, will see the prize winners presented with Panasonic 3D cameras, monitors, storage and access to DirecTV’s post […]