Customers of Australian telco Telstra’s IPTV service will soon be able to enjoy Foxtel channels via their Telstra T-Box following the signing of an agreement between the two companies. The agreement will see 30 of some of Foxtel’s best channels – including FOX8, Discovery, FOX Sports Play, Movie One and Showtime Premiere – streamed directly […]
Analysts Piper Jaffray believe Apple’s already working on plans to start shipping its own all-in-one connected 50in TVs by the end of 2012. “(Apple) will enter the TV market with a full focus, as an all-in-one Apple television could move the needle when connected TVs proliferate,” said the firm. It makes its prediction based on […]
Mobile phone base stations no bigger than a golf ball could help bring mobile broadband to distant areas both in the developing and developed world, Alcatel-Lucent has claimed. The company said that its new technology, which shrinks many of the functions of a standard base station down to a few chips which fit in a […]
Anevia has enabled Itacom to successfully deploy an over-the-top (OTT) video on demand service for Paraguay. Itacom is a provider of Internet, telephony, and television services to customers in Paraguay. Itacom has chosen to work with Anevia in building a new OTT on demand video service based on ViaMotion, a software-based IP streaming solution that […]
Eyepartner has developed a low cost IPTV middleware that delivers HD Live, VOD, and Channel Lineups directly to the Roku set top box. TikiLIVE allows users to set-up a channel and broadcast their stream in full HD, with a simple to use click-and-go interface. The user can quickly arrange a playlist of pre-recorded video as […]
Three men have been charged with defrauding TV giant Virgin Media of up to £40 million (€47.6m). The trio have been accused of importing 44,000 digital receivers which could be made to pick up channels without paying a fee to Virgin. The Crown Prosecution Service said the boxes would be sent electronic messages which would […]
Google TV have announced the availability of two new templates and a new user interface library designed to make it easier for developers to build Google TV-optimised Web sites. “We’ve created two template designs that are focused on delivering video content, but equally suitable for photos or other multimedia,” said Google TV Developer Relations Team […]
Serbia has launched the first phase of the project for the installation of a national DTT transmitter network worth €12 million. Of the total figure, (€10.5 million has been provided by the EU, from non-refundable pre-accession (IPA) funds, with the remaining 20 per cent covered by Serbia. Apart from funds for the procurement and construction […]
The acquisition by Digital Plus of pay-TV rights to the European Champions League from 2012 is a hard blow for Mediapro’s pay DTT channel Gol TV, current holder of the rights. Digital+ has acquired the rights to live and delayed action from all of the competition’s matches, with the exception of the Tuesday first-match pick. […]
The latest generation of TVs and set-top boxes are at risk of virus infection unless manufacturers take steps to build in protection, according to digital TV specialist, Ocean Blue Software (OBS). The company, which has developed TV application software for many of the major manufacturers, says the majority of new TVs and set-top boxes that […]