A licensee has had a conviction for screening foreign satellite football overturned by the High Court in London. A pub in the Midlands was originally convicted and fined £500 (€600) in June 2009 for showing games using an Arab Radio and Television (ART) Network system, after the case was brought by Media Protection Services (MPS). […]
Industry analysts comScore say figures show MySpace lost more than 10 million unique users worldwide between January and February. There were almost 63 million users of MySpace in February 2011, down from more than 73 million. Year on year the site has lost almost 50 million users, down from close to 110 million in February […]
Skylogic, the broadband subsidiary of Eutelsat Communications, and skyDSL Global, a European pioneer of satellite Internet services, have announced the extension of their longstanding partnership with an initial five-year contract amounting to €3 million enabling skyDSL to market the next-generation Tooway service provided by KA-SAT, Eutelsat’sl new High Throughput Satellite. Using the skyDSL2+ brand, skyDSL […]
The Landscape Channel has launched what it claims is the world’s highest quality television channel at MIP. LandscapeHD will broadcast its free to air channel in 1920 x 1080 progressive format (1080p), using innovative “cloud” technology developed by London based company Re:fine, experts in delivering digital content to an International market. LandscapeHD broadcasts classical and […]
The live streaming of the India-South Africa match on ESPNStar.com has broken India’s online streaming record in India, with over 3 million streams delivered to over 1.5 million unique consumers on the match day on 12 March 2011. Through the first 42 matches, ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 Free Live Streaming has received more than […]
Amino Technologies has secured a follow-on order to provide its hybrid/OTT technology to support Telecom Italia’s deployment of its Cubovision all-in-one multimedia broadband service. Launched in December 2010, Cubovision offers home TV access to a range of digital terrestrial TV channels, leading web TV sources, and pay-per-view films as well as personal content such as […]
Espial, a specialist in On-Demand TV solutions, has confirmed that Hitachi is shipping their latest connected TV models into the Japanese market powered by the Espial TV Browser. Hitachi has incorporated the Espial TV Browser which is included in the following Connected TV models shipped to only Japanese market: Hitachi P42-XP07(PDP), P46-XP07(PDP), P50-XP07(PDP), L32-XP07(LCD), L37-XP07(LCD), […]
Asia’s leading satellite operator Asia Satellite Telecommunications (AsiaSat) has revealed that Phoenix TV has signed a contract to distribute a new free to air Cantonese language channel ‘Phoenix Hong Kong’ through its MCPC (Multiple Channels per Carrier) platform on AsiaSat 3S. Utilising C-band capacity on AsiaSat 3S, located at 105.5oE, and the MCPC and uplinking […]
Ownership of 3DTVs will accelerate rapidly over the next three years, according to research from Strategy Analytics. The report, “Global 3D-Enabled Device Sales Forecast,” predicts that 34 per cent of US homes will own a 3D-ready TV by 2014. In Europe, 3DTV ownership will grow even faster, with 42 per cent of homes owning a […]
France’s leading pay-TV operator, Canal+, is to launch a free-to-air channel by the end of the year. The move would create a new competitor to major French broadcasters TF1 and M6 at a time when TV advertising is slipping in favour of digital and online ads. Chief Executive Bertrand Meheut told Le Figaro the channel […]