This month Cyfrowy Dom, a company owned by ITI Neovision, the majority shareholder in the DTH platform is offering viewers Telewizja na karte (TNK TV on card). It will allow them to watch over a dozen channels, five of them (TVP1, TVP2, TVN, TN7 and Religia.tv) will be free of charge. The other channels will […]
VideoJug, the global 'how to' video site, has signed five new content syndication agreements which will increase its potential global audience to an estimated 60+ million viewers per month. The deals have been struck with Yahoo, WikiHow, Kontraband, WonderHowTo and Tiscali and will all go live within weeks. VideoJug, which attracts over 3.2 million unique […]
ESPN Classic have signed up to provide content for Go!View, the Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) video-on-demand service in the UK and Republic of Ireland. As part of the deal, ESPN Classic will give PSP users the opportunity to see some of the greatest moments in sporting history. Every month up to 20 hours of ESPN […]
The new Sunrise software from Ocean Blue, a specialist digital TV software company, is the first software that incorporates power saving functions, HD, USB support, digital and analogue formats, which can all operate on a single internal chipset, as opposed to the multiple chips currently in use. Combining multiple broadcast types and functions on a […]
Internet advertising spend is providing buoyancy for traditional media, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers report, surging 21 per cent year on year to £1.68 billion (E2.14bn) in the first six months of 2008. The resilience of internet ad spend in the downturn turned what would have been a 4.6 per cent year-on-year decline in UK advertising […]
The increasing availability of mobile handsets capable of receiving free-to-air analogue and digital terrestrial TV signals will adversely impact the prospects for dedicated mobile broadcast TV networks, according to a report from Juniper Research. While the report says that more than 330 million mobile users worldwide will own broadcast TV-enabled handsets by 2013, less than […]
RealNetworks has temporarily stopped distributing its DVD copying software, RealDVD, at a federal judge’s request in a copyright case brought by Hollywood studios (see News 2/10/08) The site now tells visitors: “Rest assured, we will continue to work diligently to provide you with software that allows you to make a legal copy of your DVDs […]
Digital TV provider DISH Network has signed national content and hardware distribution agreements with Pace International and newly-formed Pace CSO, Inc. Pace will offer DISH Network content, set-top boxes and hardware, system design, marketing, technical support, customer support and billing to triple-play communities throughout the US. Pace International, a national distributor in the direct broadcast […]
While the U.S. Supreme Court’s move to deny DISH’s appeal of the TiVo patent infringement case was a significant blow for the satellite TV company, the litigation between the companies is far from becoming a done deal. The Supreme Court denied DISH’s petition to review a U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit ruling that upheld […]
Channel Five is to make its programmes, including Neighbours and Fifth Gear, available for catch-up viewing on BT Vision’s TV service. The channel has struck a deal to launch Demand Five, its on-demand TV service, on BT Vision for programmes that have aired over the past eight days. Users will be able to access most […]