Spanish television channels can apply for licences to broadcast digital pay television programmes, starting immediately, the government has said. Broadcasters applications for licences to offer digital pay TV programmes will be subject to approval by the cabinet, the Industry Ministry said. The Ministry clarified in a subsequent press release that it has not authorised concessions […]
Canal Plus says there have been over 10 million video-on-demand views on its Canal Plus A La Demande service. Canal + issued usage data that revealed 32.6% of all VOD activity related to movies, 23.3% to TV series and 19.8% to magazine and general entertainment shows. Canal Plus launched its VOD service one year ago. […]
KIT digital, a global provider of IP-based video enablement technologies, has acquired the assets and assumed certain current liabilities of London-based Narrowstep , an Internet TV platform company supporting content providers, broadcasters, telcos and other corporations. The acquisition expands KIT digital's client delivery capabilities – particularly in live-streaming, long-form delivery and delivery using the Microsoft […]
AnySource Media has confirmed the availability of Internet Video Navigator 1.0, an embedded platform that aggregates and organises video, photos and music content from across the Internet and allows consumers to easily find, view and listen to it on their HDTVs using the remote control. Internet Video Navigator will drive value-added services for consumer electronic […]
France’s analogue TV switch-off could be postponed to 2013 or 2014, from its current deadline of 30th November 2011, according to Philippe Levrier, the head of France Tele Numerique, a public body tasked with helping the public adopt the new broadcasting system. French newspaper Les Echos reports that he has informed digital development minister Nathalie […]
French digital terrestrial channels will be available from June on the Eutelsat Atlantic Bird 3 satellite in a package to be marketed as Fransat. The satellite has always been used to broadcast the DTT channels to homes beyond DTT reception. The 18 channels will be available from June for free though viewers will need to […]
Ofcom's most recent quarterly report said Tiscali added no new subs in Q408. It's customer base was virtually flat at 100,000, or 0.3 percent of homes with TVs. That's below the 398,000 rival BT Vision reported for the same period. …………….
The Sky+ Remote Record application is now available from the Apple App Store. The free application enables iPhone users with a Sky+ or Sky+HD set-top box to set recordings wherever they are. The application gives customers access to Sky's seven-day Electronic Programme Guide (EPG), where they can browse listings by time, day or programme name, […]
Anevia, supplier of IPTV and VOD solutions, has secured $7 million in a second round of financing led by Seventure Partners alongside CDC Innovation, a shareholder from the first round funding in 2005. Anevia leads the IPTV market with more than 10,000 live channels and over 4 million end users on the telecoms and hospitality […]
Mobile phone firm Orange has emerged as a potential buyer for the technology behind Project Kangaroo, the defunct broadband TV joint venture between ITV, Channel 4 and the BBC. Project Kangaroo’s partners are understood to have invested about £20 million (E22m) developing the technology behind the proposed video-on-demand service, which is now likely to be […]