ANT has confirmed that Chunghwa Telecom has chosen the ANT Galio Browser as the user interface platform upon which to develop a successor to Chunghwa Telecom's successful Multimedia on Demand (MOD) Service. The existing MOD Service provides Taiwanese consumers with a range of multimedia services such as broadcast TV channels, on-demand movies and interactive services […]
Sirius XM is weighing up a refinancing offer from Liberty Media ahead of today’s deadline to repay $175m in bonds to EchoStar which was using the debt’s leverage in an attempt to take over the US satellite radio company. Liberty Media is offering a senior secured loan that will allow the bonds to be redeemed. […]
Thousands of Sky+ HD customers are to have their boxes replaced after a fault was discovered by manufacturer Pace. Ninety-thousand people, about one in 10 HD customers, will be affected. Sky says the fault involves the internal cabling and the quality of the connections between components but is not a safety risk. Anyone affected is […]
Demand for professionally produced and distributed online video continued unabated in 2008, with cumulative volume advancing 24.3 per cent to 41.6 billion views, according to an annual report published by AccuStream iMedia Research. Over the past ten years, audiences have accessed 142.7 billion pieces of professionally produced, brand-hosted and distributed video. Entertainment/kids captured 10 per […]
Discovery Networks EMEA, a division of media company Discovery Communications, has revealed that Investigation Discovery (ID), a 24-hour crime and investigation channel, will launch in Russia in April 2009. This marks the first continental European launch for ID, which rolled out in the UK in January 2009 following its US debut in January 2008.
Struggling German pay TV broadcaster Premiere AG said it expects no subscriber growth for at least four months after worse-than-expected 2008 results as it prepares to tap shareholders for fresh funds. The live broadcast rights holder for football games from Germany’s top league posted a wider-than-expected fourth-quarter loss and forecast more losses for the whole […]
Sky is reportedly considering reopening its EPG slot queue to channels broadcasting in the HD. If so it would be the first time new channels could come directly on to the EPG since applications were closed in October 2007. Room for the additions would be made by a software download, following which the EPG available […]
TiVo and US satellite TV provider EchoStar return to a Texas court this week in the latest round of a longstanding fight over a TV recording technology patent. The legal dispute dates back to 2004, when TiVo charged that satellite TV provider EchoStar Communications Corp’s Dish network system violated TiVo’s patent for 'Time Warp' software, […]
From Colin Mann in London The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), the global trade association of the mobile entertainment industry has revealed findings from its first quarterly Business Confidence Index (BCI) for the $32 billion global mobile entertainment industry. Based on the findings, the industry is confident it will continue to grow despite the economic downturn. […]
Channel 4 is relaunching its online catch-up service in March as part of a renewed focus on its own digital services following the demise of planned VoD venture Kangaroo. Following the changes, Channel4.com will house a video player on its web pages. C4 said it will offer higher-quality video streams, based on Adobe’s Flash instead […]