D-Book 7, the detailed interoperability specification for digital terrestrial television with extended Connected TV functionality, is now available from the UK’s the Digital Television Group website. D-Book 7 is the product of 18 months of industry collaboration between manufacturers, service providers and technology companies. The seventh edition builds on previous editions of the D-Book and provides an […]
Vice is preparing to announce investment partnerships with Tom Freston, MTV’s co-founder; WPP, the giant media conglomerate; and the Raine Group, a boutique investment firm. To help it expand, Vice has also enlisted William Morris Endeavor Entertainment and its chief executive, Ari Emanuel, to represent the company. “We’ve kind of been on the periphery for […]
Bluestreak Technology, a specialist in delivering software presentation solutions on multi-screen wireless and wired embedded devices, has been selected by Orange to deliver the new Orange cinéma séries on demand service to mobile devices and tablets. Consumers who subscribe to the popular Orange cinéma séries service can now download movies to their mobile devices and […]
Japan’s consumer electronics industry is slowly recovering from the twin disaster of earthquake and tsunami. Panasonic, for example, said that as of the end of March it had resumed production operations in its electronic materials divisions. To emphasise the ‘business as usual’ message, the Japanese electronics giant kicked off its USA dealer and consumer event […]
Watch for more Canadians to dump their traditional phone and TV subscriptions, says a new report from Toronto’s Convergence Consulting. Canadian telco residential wireline telephone line loss was 7 per cent in 2010 (as it was in 2009) and the research company forecasts 8 per cent for 2011 and 9 per cent for 2012 and […]
Rovi Corporation has announced the Rovi Smart TV Field Trial, an initiative created to explore new and emerging advertising opportunities on television and other devices connected to the Internet. The programme enables companies to test campaigns across a wide variety of platforms including TVs, Blu-Ray Players and other devices. By participating, the companies will not […]
Panasonic has confirmed the activation of professional sports apps for baseball and basketball on its 2011 line of Vira Connect-enabled HDTVs. The planned addition of interactive sports apps including professional baseball, basketball, hockey and football was initially announced in January at the International Consumer Electronics Show. Viera Connect, a significant enhancement of Panasonic’s connected IPTV […]
NeuLion, the multi-platform broadcast technology company, is working with Team National, a nationwide US direct selling company, to create Team National TV, an IPTV television service for Team National’s members. The new Team National TV will deliver dozens of linear channels of television programming including Fox News, CBS College Sports, Hallmark Movie Channel, Fox Business, […]
In a strategic partnership between Platform ‘n’ and FOX International Channels Poland, The National Geographic Channel HD will join Poland’s leading satellite platform line-up, effective immediately. With the addition of National Geographic in HD, Platform ‘n’ expands its subscriber offering to 26 HD channels, more than any other satellite pay television provider in Poland. As […]
Spain’s pay television sector has more and more subscribers who pay less and less. Year on year in 2o10 pay-TV gained 218,830 subscribers, up 5.36 per cent, to 4,296,434 according to the latest report from the CMT, the Telecommunications Market Commission. Pay DTT, with a 127 per cent growth from 153,151 subscribers in 2009 to […]