Kabel Deutschland Holding AG (KDH), Germany’s biggest cable operator, has sustained its dynamic growth over the first nine months of its financial year 2010/2011 (April 1st through December 31st, 2010). “We are implementing our strategy on schedule and achieving our objectives. The trend towards Premium TV services is gaining momentum, and demand for high performance […]
German DTH pay-TV operator Sky Deutschland is reportedly expected to make an even larger fourth-quarter loss than a year ago. Sky Deutschland’s numbers will be revealed on Thursday. A Reuters poll of bankers, including Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, shows a forecast loss for Sky-D of €95 million ($129.9m) compared with a loss of €81.6 […]
Italy’s Mediaset has said it will boost its pay-TV products with the launch of a new hybrid system of broadcast and broadband. Mediaset said the new product, called Premium Net TV, is based on a digital terrestrial decoder that can be used with a broadband connection. It will allow customers to get free access to […]
There will be an installed base of 140 million Android portable devices, including smartphones and tablets, by the end of 2011, according to IMS Research forecasts. The market intelligence firm says the recent unveiling of Google’s Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) operating system for tablets, along with enhancements to the Android Market website, will do much to […]
Samsung Electronics maintains the top spot in the global market for a fifth year in a row. According to DisplaySearch, the Korean manufacturer garnered a 22.1 per cent share of the world market with sales of $26 billion. LG Electronics came in second with 14.1 per cent ($16.6 billion in sales), followed by Sony at […]
News Corp has agreed to acquire Elisabeth Murdoch’s Shine Group for $673 million. Shine is a UK-based production company that owns Reveille in the US “In a rapidly consolidating global TV industry, this alliance uniquely provides the conditions in which Shine Group can continue to lead and prosper,” Elisabeth Murdoch, chairman and CEO of Shine, […]
Amazon’s TV service has gone live to its ‘prime’ customers who pay $79 a year for free two-day shipping. They can now choose from 5,000 TV shows and movies such as to stream to PCs or connected devices. The move ramps up the battle with Netflix which has a subscriber base of 20 million. Amazon […]
By the end of 2012, South Korea intends to connect every home in the country to the Internet at one gigabit per second. That would be a tenfold increase from what is already the fastest in the world and more than 200 times as fast as the average household set-up in the US. A pilot […]
Vladlink is trialling IPTV services in the Russia’s Far East, in preparation for a full commercial launch with its residential customers. The Internet service provider has chosen Netris to provide its iVision middleware for the service, to be branded ‘Vladlink.TV’. There will be over 110 channels available at launch delivered to HD-capable STBs from D-Link. […]
Sky’s response to the BBC Trust on the syndication guidelines for BBC on-demand television content heavily criticises the decision to limit the content to BBC “aggregation products”, i.e. YouView / iPlayer. Sky says “[we] support the wide distribution of BBC public service content, including BBC on-demand content” but added “the fundamental principle of broad distribution […]