After installing TiVo's Desktop Plus PC software, users will be able to subscribe to RSS feeds of their favorite Web shows. Users will also be able to transfer home videos from their computers to their DVRs. “Through the addition of new applications such as Web video, we continue to build toward our goal of making […]
The Office of Electronic Communications (OEC) is expecting the first commercial offers of mobile TV to appear in Poland this year, Anna Strezynska, the President of OEC confirmed. “I think that mobile TV will emerge this year because it already exists. Local tests give very promising results. About 12 channels of good quality can be […]
Shanghai Telecom’s IPTV promotion launched in mid-January has been declared a success with as many as two or three thousand new subscribers signing up each day between February 7th and now. Shanghai Telecom’s Internet official Yang Bingfeng added that he is confident that total user numbers will reach 800,000 before the end of the year.
The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has released its “Digital Vision: India in 2012” report in New Delhi, providing an overview of the opportunities for rapid development of India's digital broadband and television industries. The CASBAA Digital Vision report also provides an assessment of India's pay-TV environment, along with recommendations for senior […]
Over 120 MPs have shown their support for plans to introduce a UK wide local channel on Freeview, by joining the United for Local Television coalition. The designated local television network on the Freeview platform, Channel 6, could carry local news, programming, advertising and networked public service content. United for Local Television put forward that […]
Harmonic has confirmed that that Sun Direct TV has deployed Harmonic’s digital video solutions for India’s first MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) direct-to-home (DTH) broadcast service. Harmonic has enabled Sun Direct TV to offer its new DTH service to 40 million homes in southern India by providing an end-to-end solution encompassing the latest generation DiviCom Electra encoders, […]
The European Commission has formalised its adoption of DVB-H and says EU countries will 'be required' to promote it. The Commission said setting the Digital Video Broadcasting Handheld as the preferred European Union standard would give the industry a boost. “For mobile TV to take off in Europe, there must first be certainty about the […]
ITV is to revamp its broadband catch-up TV offering and is considering rebranding the online video service less than a year after it first launched. The overhaul of the 30-day catch-up service, a key part of ITV.com’s overall broadband TV service, will be followed by the first major marketing campaign to drive usage since launch […]
Major record labels – marshalled by the Irish Recorded Music Association – are suing Ireland's largest internet provider, Eircom, arguing it lets customers use its network to illegally share songs. They want Eircom to install filtering software, but the ISP is set to argue it has no obligation to do so. The case is set […]
From Colin Mann in London Recent research from satellite operator SES Astra has revealed that 83 per cent of the satellite TV households in Europe and North Africa are digitised. This is more than four times more than in cable where in average 20 per cent of all households are digital. With a share of […]