Sony Pictures Television and BT Vision have signed an agreement that sees the addition of Sony Entertainment Television to BT's digital on-demand television service, BT Vision. Launching for the first time in the UK, Sony Entertainment Television offers viewing with top-rated US dramas such as Damages and The Shield. Also launching on BT Vision is […]
GlobeCast's newly launched Content Acquisition and Distribution division has signed a VOD distribution deal with ZN Animation, one of China's biggest animation producers, as well as general and popular entertainment content from Shanghai Media Group's subsidiary, WingsMedia. Under the deal, GlobeCast – the content management and delivery company and division of France Telecom, will enable […]
Mobile operator 3 UK and On Demand Group have debuted Warner Bros. International Branded Services' WarnerTV branded service, which gives subscribers on-demand access to entire episodes of hit television shows from Warner Bros. Entertainment. The content deal with Mobix Interactive, now part of On Demand Group marks Warner Bros International Branded Services' first launch of […]
Ooyala, provider of end-to-end video platform applications and services , has announced the development of a new 'TV Everywhere' video platform. The platform makes it easy for content rights holders to manage and monetise ‘paywall windows’ for the syndication of their content to connected devices. Mexican Broadcaster, TV Azteca and US-based broadcasters have signed up […]
French telco Viaccess and semiconductor manufacture NEC Electronics have announced their collaboration to offer Viaccess' conditional access incorporated in NEC Electronics' new EMMA 3SL/P system-on-chip (SoC), targeted at MPEG-4 HD hybrid set-top boxes (STBs). The combination of Viaccess conditional access and NEC Electronics' EMMA3SL/P will offer STB vendors a secure, easy-to-integrate and cost-effective solution with […]
Harmonic has confirmed that OSN (Orbit Showtime Network), the leading DTH satellite provider serving the Middle East, has deployed Harmonic’s digital headend solutions to power its recently launched HD video service, the first MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) HD service being delivered to multiple countries in the region. OSN selected Harmonic’s Electra 8000 multi-channel universal encoder to […]
The UK government has been defeated in the upper parliamentary chamber the House of Lords over measures to tackle Internet piracy. Ministers had been seeking powers to amend copyright law and impose conditions or fees where infringements were taking place. But opposition Conservatives and Liberal Democrats succeeded in removing the measures from the Digital Economy […]
From Nick Snow in Brussels In the most awaited – and delayed – session here at Cable Congress, YouTube – the über-OTT service, came face to face with cable; and everyone was friendly, up to a point. YouTube director video partnerships EMEA, Patrick Walker pointed out his service was already massive – 1 billion videos […]
Ed Richards, chief executive of Ofcom, has said that net neutrality will come under regulatory scrutiny this year. He said the scale of deployment of next-generation broadband networks would depend on greater clarity on this issue. The battle lines have already been drawn: The BBC and BT clashed last year over the bandwidth consumed by […]
Fastweb and Sparkle have been given 48 hours by a Rome judge to propose alternatives to the Italian broadband operators being put under court administration for their alleged role in a E2 billionn tax fraud and money laundering scam. Silvio Scaglia, the billionaire founder of Fastweb and the investor behind Babelgum, denied any wrongdoing when […]