Canada’s Cogeco Cable has entered into agreements with INVIDI Technologies and Channel Zero to trial the INVIDI Advatar addressable targeted advertising system with TV broadcaster CHCH. The Advatar system enables television advertisers to deliver tailored messaging to individual households during a commercial break. This technology uses public domain demographic information to accurately pinpoint consumer needs […]
Many illegal file sharers believe they are the ‘Robin Hoods of the digital age’ and are motivated by altruism and a desire for notoriety, according to analysis of people motivations illegally download digital media. The research by Joe Cox, from the University of Portsmouth Business School, is the first study to distinguish between the characteristics, […]
Al Jazeera English has confirmed that the channel has been granted a downlinking licence to broadcast in India. The decision, which was made by India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, allows cable and satellite companies in India to add Al Jazeera English to their current line-up of channels. The announcement from the Indian Government follows […]
Motive Television, the digital television technology, software and services provider, has successfully completed the technical pilot of its Bestv technology with Antenna Hungaria, a subsidiary of Groupe TDF. Antenna Hungaria operates a digital terrestrial television (DTT) platform offering consumers the choice of both free and pay television channels via a set top box. Throughout the […]
S3 Group has revealed Indian satellite TV provider, Tata Sky, has licensed its StormTest Development Centre solution for automated STB validation testing. Tata Sky is a joint venture between the TataGroup and Star. The Tata Group is one of India’s largest business conglomerates with operations in more than 80 countries across six continents and exporting […]
Mo-DV, an innovator of multimedia content delivery via USB Flash Drives and Micro SD Cards, has announced that its Mo-DV Universal Player intellectual property (IP) with Digital Rights Management (DRM) is now enabling major movie studios to securely offer movies on SD cards for Android devices. This milestone follows Mo-DV’s success in enabling movie studios […]
The amount of ‘cord-cutters’ – multichannel homes with a high-speed Internet connection that drop their cable/telco/satellite subscriptions, but retain their broadband connection to watch television – netted out to only 0.11 per cent of the television population over the past three months, according to an extensive ESPN analysis of Nielsen’s national people meter sample. ESPN […]
The UK Government has revealed plans to spend £830 million (€979m) in an effort to give the UK the best broadband network in Europe by 2015. An action plan – Britain’s Superfast Broadband Future – published by Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, sets out the ambition to create a ‘digital hub’ in every community in the […]
GetGlue, a social network that lets users “check in” to television programmes, films and sporting events, has attracted investment from Time Warner as it leads a $6 million round of financing. GetGlue allows users to signal what type of media they are consuming at any given moment. GetGlue has partnerships with 24 companies including television […]
The decision to adopt the DVB digital television standard in Colombia has been suspended. There are local reports of “irregularities” over the decision-making process which ended up with DVB being selected. According to the El Espectador newspaper, the Colombian State Council has accepted the request to cancel the DVB decision pending a decision on whether […]