UK creative industries will fade into insignificance in five years unless the government rapidly steps up its anti-piracy efforts, a leading trade body warned today. In a survey of more than 30 directors of TV and film companies, the Industry Trust found that 94% believe the damage cannot be repaired without stronger support from government […]
Orange has signed a deal with Wikimedia to provide its users with co-branded content that will be accessed through specific Wikipedia channels on Orange’s mobile and Internet portals. Orange will place ads alongside Wikipedia content and the two will share the ad revenues.
Orange is broadcasting an experimental 3D broadcast of a football match. The Ligue 1 game between when Olympique Lyonnais and Paris Saint-Germain will be broadcast live to 3D screens in Parc des Princes and Gerland stadium for supporters and football fans invited by Orange and the two clubs. Orange will deploy six stereoscopic cameras, a […]
With US households reluctant to cancel home services despite the down economy, growth in cable and IPTV VoD services will remain strong, with revenues exceeding $11 billion by 2013, according to Parks Associates. “Currently 37 per cent of US digital cable customers use premium VoD regularly, up from 21 per cent in late 2004,” said […]
German pay-TV group Premiere has completed a E450 million capital increase, which saw Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp raise its stake from 25 per cent to 30.5 per cent. The company announced the two-step rights issue in December in order to fund last autumn’s purchase of rights to show live Bundesliga soccer. ….
ITV is to begin the search for a new chief executive, with Michael Grade relinquishing this responsibility and staying on at the company solely as chairman a year earlier than planned. The commercial broadcaster said it would have a new chief executive in place by the end of 2009 at the latest, by which time […]
From Colin Mann in Las Vegas Content and business model protection solutions and services specialist Irdeto has unveiled the Irdeto Conditional Access (CA) System with Universal Client. The Universal Client is designed to meet the needs of broadcasters who require a cost-effective and secure content security solution that is easily integrated with a wide variety […]
Smartclip, the German interactive video network backed by Endemol founder Joop van den Ende, has launched in the UK as it aims to take a chunk of the online video ad market. The network is designed to allow TV and online planners to buy pre-roll campaigns around professional content through more simple processes. It's currently […]
From Colin Mann in Las Vegas Tandberg Television is pursuing what it describes as "a new chapter in video compression" with the launch of the EN8100 MPEG-2 SD encoder, designed to deliver a host of performance and operational benefits for DTH satellite, cable and terrestrial operators, as well as for content aggregators and distributors. The […]
On Demand Group has signed a new four-year contract to provide content management services for Virgin Media's on demand service. The renewal covers rights management, editorial service management, promo production, and content operations including encoding, metadata generation, and content preparation, which ODG has been providing since the service went live in February 2007.