Stephen Fry, the comic and self-confessed technophile has produced a short-film – in association with Sky – which takes a look at 3D TV and how it works, without the jargon. Fry said: “3D TV in the home is going to be the next exciting chapter in television history and I’m delighted to be able […]
Samsung has officially unveiled its Media Hub for the US market. The Media Hub will give access to new and library content and users will get next-day access to television shows. The company said its availability is imminent and that the pricing will be similar to other services. The media partnerships include MTV, NBC Universal, […]
South African broadcasters E.tv and M-Net plan to launch a trial of the upgraded European digital television standard, DVB-T2, in response the news that a pilot of the rival Brazilian and Japanese standard will soon get underway. The local broadcasters’ pilot will take place in Soweto. State-owned signal distributor, Sentech, is establishing test transmission sites […]
Bell has announced the launch of Bell TV On Demand, the first national VOD service available to Canadian satellite TV subscribers. Bell TV On Demand is also the first to offer satellite customers on-demand access to select titles in HD resolution. Movies cost $6.99 per title for up to 48-hour access, and are available instantly […]
The new-look BBC iPlayer has attracted thousands of posts to the catch-up service’s message boards, with a huge number claiming the new version is riddled with bugs that are causing problems, particularly with those who download programmes on the service.
Hot on the heels of its acquisition of NXVision, broadcast television technology and services provider Motive Television has announced the proposed acquisition of approximately 67.7 per cent of Barcelona company Adecq Digital, developer of the Bestv technology for digital terrestrial television. Motive is proposing to raise approximately £4.75 million through a Subscription for £4,750,000 nominal […]
MTV Spain is pulling out of the pay-TV market and making its debut in on DTT as a free-to-air channel following the deal between Viacom and Spanish media group Vocento. It is the first time MTV Spain is distributed free-to-air as since its launch 10 years ago the channel was only available on pay-TV (satellite, […]
Sky is closing Bravo and Channel One as part of the integration of Living TV Group. It has decided to focus on the Living TV channel portfolio, which will see a 25 per cent boost to its programming budget, and the gameshow and quiz channel Challenge. Up to 50 jobs could be affected. Sky decided […]
The UK government has not yet decided whether to refer for review the proposed takeover of pay-TV group BSkyB by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, it said, responding to a report a review was likely. The BBC said Business Secretary Vince Cable was likely to ask the media regulator Ofcom to look at the impact of […]
According to a Populus poll commissioned by TVonics, confusion still reigns over in the UK whether or not its necessary to pay a subscription based service in order to watch and record HD TV. When asked “What monthly subscription charge do you need to pay in order to watch and record HDTV channels like BBC […]