Microsoft is set to launch its UK VOD service this week. The new MSN Video Player, which has been in testing phase since last summer, features around 300 hours of programming from BBC Worldwide and All3Media. Microsoft has increased the service’s total hours of content to 1,000 in the last few months following deals with […]
AOL Europe is demonstrates its commitment to video with the appointment of Kelly Sweeney to the new role of director of video. She will be responsible for commissioning original productions and managing relationships with production partners and advertisers. Sweeney served as head of original content at social network Bebo and was line producer on shows […]
Troubled record company EMI has named former ITV boss Charles Allen as its new chairman. Allen was already non-executive chairman at the firm. EMI also said chief executive Elio Leoni-Sceti would leave at the end of the month after two-and-a-half years. EMI had annual losses of £1.75 billion. Private equity house Terra Firma is seeking […]
Humax and the BBC have extended their iPlayer trial to all of the manufacturers’ Freesat set-top boxes, making the catch-up service available through the red button. With the Foxsat-HD and Foxsat-HDR connected to the internet and the STB tuned into BBC, pressing the red button calls up the BBCi homepage where there’s a link to […]
Vizrt, a provider of content production tools for the digital media industry, is integrating Civolution's watermarking solution into its Viz Ardome media asset management software. Using Civolution's NexGuard – Pre-release application, users will have the ability to deter potential piracy threat or trace the source of unauthorised copies of a video asset. The integration of […]
Minerva Networks, provider of open and IPTV delivery platforms, has revealed that Pioneer Telephone, the fourth largest telephone cooperative in the US, has successfully completed the migration from a legacy third-party system to the Company's platform. Minerva's iTVManager is a comprehensive software solution for the delivery of next-generation IP-connected television services, including HDTV, DVR, whole-home […]
In the first few months following the adoption of the three-strikes anti-piracy legislation in France, online piracy has increased 3 per cent in the period September to December last year. Instead of stopping, file-sharers are seeking alternatives to bypass the new law. The research also reveals that disconnecting file-sharers will actually hurt the revenues of […]
Plans to suspend the Internet accounts of people who download music illegally are unfair, according to BT’s chief executive, Ian Livingston. Livingston says illegal file-sharers should be fined rather than have their Internet accounts cut off. He and other industry figures have written to the Financial Times urging changes to the Digital Economy Bill. Livingston […]
Google is testing a new TV programme search service on Dish Network reports the WSJ. The service allows users to search content from Dish, as well as other Web video sites, and runs on TV set-top boxes that include elements of Google’s Android operating system. Google hopes to link the TV search service with its […]
German cable operator Kabel Deutschland has set March 19th to close an Initial Public Offering looking to raise over E700 million in return for floating 25-30 per cent. The price range for the IPO is expected to be announced today with the offer open from the end of this week. KDG has held talks with […]