NDS, provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, has signed an agreement pursuant to which funds managed by Vitruvian Partners will back a management buyout of OpenBet, an NDS subsidiary and provider of online gaming and betting technology and software solutions. Vitruvian and management will acquire OpenBet for a cash consideration of £208 million (€248m). […]
Argentina’s DTT system has added four new digital channels, including one in HD, to the nine already in place. The new channels are: Tateti, Video Éxito, Argentina HD and Suri TV. Tateti is a new children’s channel, Video Éxito is a music channel, Argentina HD is a tourism channel and Suri TV is a channel […]
South Korea is keen to share knowledge and extend its cooperation on new technologies in information communication and technology (ICT), such as mobile tv (terrestrial DMB (T-DMB) services), and wireless broadband with Malaysia and the rest in the Asean region. Korea Communication Commission director-general Hwanjung Yang said it was ready to help Asean countries to […]
Forty-one UK market towns with around 300,000 businesses and consumers will get broadband access of up to 40Mbps from spring next year as part of the next phase of BT’s £2.5 billion fibre deployment, the telecoms firm has announced. The 41 towns will complement 785 exchanges that BT has already named under its fibre roll-out […]
ESPN will screen this year’s World Rally Championship. The sports channel will screen 30-minute nightly bulletins at the end of every WRC day, with on-event coverage bookended by an hour long preview and review show. Between events, ESPN is committing 30 hour-long shows with archive material from the sport, as well as two new documentary […]
A merged Comcast and NBC would have to abide by tailored ‘net neutrality conditions’ for at least seven years, according to leaked details from the FCC’s proposed terms for approval of the deal. Regardless of what happens with national neutrality rules, the newco would be banned from blocking or throttling rival content as well as […]
Spending on home entertainment reached $18.8 billion in the US during 2010, down slightly from $19.4 billion in 2009, according to a report from the Digital Entertainment Group (DEG). The US home entertainment market continued to benefit from the steady growth of Blu-ray, which reached sales of $1.8 billion, while consumer spending on digital distribution […]
Formula 1’s move to HD television coverage in 2011 has been officially confirmed by Formula One Management (FOM). All TV channels that have rights to the sport will receive an HD feed. FOM has invested in equipment that is good enough to ensure that it can download the data to broadcasters at a rate of […]
Portuguese cable operator Zon Multimedia has launched a more intuitive technology for advanced television, together with middleware and conditional access provider NDS. The new technology will, for example, allow customers to record an entire series and to search or watch other channels, without leaving the one being watched, according to Zon CEO, Luis Lopes. Named […]
Samsung customers now have an additional seven TV channels to choose from with the launch of BigPond TV to Samsung’s range of IP televisions, Blu-ray players and home theatre systems. Samsung customers can now access 24/7 news, dedicated AFL, NRL, V8 Supercars channels, 24/7 BigPond Sports News, live horse racing from Sydney and Melbourne and […]