SES Astra has announced that it will launch Europe's first 3D demo channel on Astra. Following initial testing, the channel will go live on May 4th 2010 in time for the opening of ANGA Cable, the international trade fair for cable broadband and satellite. The 3D demo channel will be available free-to-air via Astra's orbital […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome Portuguese communications regulator Anacom has put out for public consultation the plan for the analogue switch-off (ASO), with the migration to DTT to be completed by April 26th 2012. The plan has been submitted for prior consultation to digital multiplex operator PT Comunicações and national broadcasters RTP, SIC and TVI. […]
The UK privacy watchdog has joined nine other countries to push Google to adopt stricter privacy controls. Christopher Graham, the UK’s information commissioner, has joined countries including Germany, Canada and Spain in signing a letter challenging Google to protect its users more. The commissioner claimed the concerns of citizens across the world were “being forgotten” […]
Warner Bros is buying North America's largest independent online gaming studio in an effort to spread its social networking and micro-payments technology across its video games and home video business. The acquisition of Turbine, the group behind Dungeons & Dragons Online and the hit multiplayer online game based on Warner's Lord of the Rings film […]
An upturn in online advertising helped profits at Internet firm Yahoo almost treble in the three months to the end of March. Net profit rose to $310 million from $118 million in the same period a year ago. The company’s takings were helped by its search and advertising partnership with Microsoft and sale of the […]
Samsung is launching an £8 million (E9m) ad campaign to promote the first 3D TV sets to go on sale in the UK. Samsung’s 3D TVs will be the first to go on sale, available April 27th, with the company’s ad campaign launching the next day during the Champion’s League semi-final on ITV1. The campaign […]
China’s most popular online video site, Youku.com, is trying to shed its reputation for abetting piracy by taking a page from YouTube’s playbook: using technology to ‘fingerprint’ videos, making it easier to find unlicensed copies. The Beijing-based company, which has been sued over pirated videos, has developed a content-filtering system that generates identifying codes based […]
TeliaSonera has reported it had 823,000 customers for its pay-TV services across all markets by the end of the first quarter of 2010, up 135,000 during the period, with 633,000 of the total being IPTV subscribers. Nearly 27 per cent of its broadband base across all markets now subscribe to its IPTV services, available in […]
US movie channel Epix has it signed a carriage agreement with Dish Network that will give Epix nationwide distribution for the first time, marking a breakthrough in its efforts to reach more viewers. The agreement will make Epix, a joint venture between Lions Gate Entertainment, Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), available to 14 million additional […]
High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), a technology that protects premium entertainment content between a digital set-top box, digital video recorder or Blu-ray disc player and a digital TV, is evolving to support a broader range of digital and wireless interfaces. One of the first new wireless interfaces addressed by the HDCP revision 2.0 specifications is […]