A Broadcasting Authority investigation has found Hong Kong Cable Television did not engage in anti-competitive conduct in the pay-TV market through its service termination practices last year. In May rival PCCW Media alleged Cable TV acted to prevent, distort or substantially restrict competition by hindering or inhibiting its English Premier League subscribers from terminating their […]
Netflix, the world’s largest online movie rental service announced it has begun the deployment of Microsoft Silverlight to enhance the instant watching component of the Netflix service and to allow subscribers for the first time to watch movies and TV episodes instantly on their Intel-based Apple Macintosh computers. The deployment, which will initially touch a […]
Two former adversaries who squared off in a bitter legal battle over Kazaa – Micahel Speck and Kevin Bermeister – have joined forces to invent new technology that they say will eliminate the illegal sharing of pirated content over peer-to-peer networks. The pair have developed an application designed to run on existing internet service provider […]
blinkx, the video search engine, has launched a kid-friendly version of blinkx Remote, a free Web site for watching TV on the Internet. The remote aggregates information and access to a host of kid-friendly, full-length television programmes across the Internet, offering a one-stop-shop for children's entertainment. Users can search for specific shows, browse by genre […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid Despite the current pay-TV deadlock in the country, the latest report by PricewaterhouseCoopers forecast that the market will experience a 16.5 per cent annual growth over the next five years. Currently, there are around 4 million pay-TV subscribers in Spain, with Sogecable-owned satellite platform Digital Plus taking the lion’s […]
The second largest US telecoms group reported a 31 per cent increase in third-quarter profits fueled by continued growth in its Verizon Wireless joint venture with Vodafone. Net income increased to $1.67bn. The mobile unit offset accelerating residential phone line and DSL line losses. Revenues grew by 4.1 percent to $24.8 bn. Verizon is spending […]
The satellite operator said EBITDA for the nine month period was little changed with net profit at E338.8m against E347m last time. Chief Executive Romain Bausch was upbeat about SES’s prospects despite the gloomy economic outlook. “We are in a business which is described as an infrastrucure business with no exposure to consumers,” he told […]
Collins Stewart, the broker that forecast doom and gloom for BSkyB last week, was busy again recommending Liberty Entertainment with a buy rating saying the next three to nine months will be “pivotal” for the company and its stake in DIRECTV. The nod from the analyst came as Liberty Media continues to position Liberty Entertainment […]
Dutch telco KPN has reported a growth of 69 percent as subscribers for its IPTV service reached 700,000 in Q3. KPN estimates it now has a 21 per cent share of the Dutch digital television market. The telco’s total revenues for the Q3 hit E3.652 billion, up 20 per cent from the same period of […]
US broadcaster NBC has extended its subscription-on-demand movie service PictureBox with a matching offer for its television series – branded 'TVBox' – on UK digital terrestrial TV. An agreement with Top Up TV sees the debut of TVBox, which forms part of Top Up TV’s on-demand services. TVBox offers current and library TV series from […]