Sony have confirmed they will bundle four free 3D PlayStation 3 games with every 3D Bravia television, as they promise to make 3D ‘affordable’ with their new Bravia HX800 model. PlayStation 3 owners will have to upgrade the firmware on their PS3s to enjoy 3D gaming – an update that will be made available over […]
ESPN is making its largest marketing investment in a single sporting event in its 30-year history as it looks to use the World Cup to transform the audience for football in the US. The Walt Disney-owned sports broadcaster is trusting that a combination of demographic changes in the US and the increased availability of Premier […]
Net Insight, developer of transport solutions for media, IP and broadcast networks, has been selected by 9 global media operators and major rights holder to deliver live HD and 3D broadcasts of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Net Insight are upgrading their networks with the Nimbra platform to deliver live video coverage and data services […]
Arab Radio and Television Network (ART), the leading Arabic language television network in the Middle East, and NeuLion, an end-to-end IPTV service provider, have inked a long-term partnership to distribute ART channels using NeuLion’s IPTV platform in Canada. The partnership names NeuLion as the exclusive IPTV technology provider and ART/IMD as the exclusive Arabic content […]
Irdeto has confirmed that Netflix has licensed Irdeto's Cloakware Embedded Security as part of its suite of content protection tools for the tens of thousands of TV episodes and movies it streams instantly to its members. Irdeto provides an advanced content protection solution that allows application developers to rapidly deploy leading software security.
Amis Telekom has selected Swedish firm Edgeware to provide its video servers to power the on-demand element of the telco’s IPTV services, which it operates in Slovenia and Croatia. The telco’s IPTV service, called ‘Amis TV’, offers linear channels and on-demand video, network personal video recorder features and time-shifting capabilities, courtesy of the Edgeware servers.
From Colin Mann in Cannes Jeremy Darroch, Chief Executive of BSkyB, delivered a robust defence of the satellite operator's business model and role in content value, as well as a strong attack on regulatory intervention in a Media Mastermind keynote speech at MIPTV. Identifying three key threats to the economics of content – piracy, commoditisation […]
A dozen major US TV groups are teaming up to provide content and spectrum for a national mobile DTV service called Pearl Mobile DTV Company. Belo, Cox, Fox, Gannett Broadcasting, Scripps, Hearst Television, ION Television, Media General Inc., Meredith Corp., NBC, Post-Newsweek Stations, and Raycom Media will get together to form a “standalone joint venture,” […]
Sky has confirmed that its Sky Player service is to launch on the UK’s first Freeview HD box as part of an expansion across Humax’s new range of digital boxes. Viewers will soon be able to watch Sky programming live and on-demand in HD on the Humax HD-FOX T2, which launched in February 2010 and […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome Italian public broadcaster RAI will air the 2010 World Cup in South Africa on its RAI HD channel. The matches for which RAI has acquired the Italian TV rights (mostly of the Italian national team and the final stages) will be transmitted in RAI HD on DTT multiplex 4. It […]