Hybrid Television Services (ANZ), the exclusive licensee of TiVo products in Australia and New Zealand and creator of CASPATM On-Demand, has restructured the business to support the expansion of services. The restructuring will take Hybrid TV from being purely a TiVo licensee to a VOD and interactive service provider in its own right.
Sky is showing 3D TV content at shopping centres to promote the launch of its new channel Sky 3D next month. Sky plans over one hundred 3D shopping centre demonstrations over the next 12 months. Shoppers can also enter a competition to win3D TV, Sky+HD box and subscription to Sky.
The Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) has published the results of a study into coaxial infrastructure in homes in the UK, France, Netherlands and Poland. The study shows that there is a significant addressable market for coaxial cable-based home networking in these countries. Results from the UK and France were very similar, with 56 per […]
Tata Sky has said it will roll out HD services and launching more interactive channels in India. The company will launch its HD service this year, ahead of Commonwealth Games to be held in October 2010. It will also introduce interactive channels in the gaming and education space. The company also plans to push personal […]
Virgin Media has confirmed the upcoming launch of Film4 HD and E4 HD on its digital TV platform. Virgin Media's digital TV customers will be the first to watch Film4 in high Definition as the channel launches exclusively on Virgin Media this summer. E4 HD is expected to launch on Virgin Media in April.
Grupo Prisa and Liberty Acquisition Holdings have announced a combination of the two companies and a rights issue reserved for current Prisa shareholders by Grupo Prisa, resulting in a cash infusion of up to $900 million in Prisa. Grupo Prisa is the leading Spanish and Portuguese-language media group whose interests include news, entertainment, education and […]
TiVo and Conax, a global provider of security solutions for digital TV and content distribution, have partnered to offer a next generation DVB set-top box platform for deployment by television operators around the world. Through this partnership, the companies will put the TiVo experience, including its revolutionary integration of IP-delivered video into an off-the-shelf package […]
Irdeto has confirmed that middleware and interactive TV technology provider Selevision has selected Irdeto's middleware solution and conditional access system (CAS) for its new HD Personal Video Recorders (PVRs). The HD PVRs, currently in field testing in Saudi Arabia, will enable content providers to run highly tailored advertisements – a market first in the Middle […]
BT is demanding that Virgin Media opens its network of underground ducts to rivals. The telco wants to use Virgin's network as part of its plans to upgrade its infrastructure and will put pressure on Ofcom to allow it access. BT intends to connect five million people to its superfast broadband network by spring next […]
Cisco, Humax and Technicolor have been named as manufacturers intending to integrate Canvas. Nine more makers: ADB, Amino, Broadcom, Echostar, Intel, Sagem, ST, LG and TVonics were listed as developing STBs or components for Canvas-enabled services. The announcement by the DTG signals a mending of some fences between Canvas and the CE makers who had […]