DirecTV and TiVo, creator of television services for digital video recorders (DVR), have extended their current agreement, which includes the development, marketing and distribution of Under the terms of the non-exclusive arrangement, DirecTV and TiVo will work together to develop a version of the TiVo service for DirecTV’s broadband-enabled HD DVR platform. The product will […]
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The adoption of Russia’s state-funded programme for the switch to digital TV, scheduled for completion in 2015, is to be postponed. The information technology and The most crucial unsolved issue is whether all the population will be supplied with digital equipment free of charge, as earlier announced. Meanwhile, industry players say that technological challenges also […]
Oz government seeks to boost DTV take-up Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says restrictions on televised sports will be reviewed in an effort to encourage the Conroy stated the success of digital television depended on changes to sport broadcasting rules, and the rule that bans major sporting events from being broadcast on any digital channels […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid Pay TV content on DTT will not happen until 2009, according to the Goverment. The Minister of Industry, Miguel Sebastian, Pay TV content on DTT will not happen until 2009, according to the Goverment. The Minister of Industry, Miguel Sebastian, said that “it is still too early” for the […]
Liberty Media Corporation announced that it has authorised its management to proceed with development of a plan to distribute to the holders of Liberty Entertainment The transaction would be effected as the redemption of all outstanding shares of Liberty Entertainment tracking stock in exchange for shares of the subsidiary. The subsidiary, which would become a […]
GTV is currently available in Botswana, Cameroon, DRC, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, and is commencing a phased rollout across sub-Saharan Africa. At the same time, Gateway is selling its telecommunications business to the African mobile operator Vodacom.
More than 70 per cent of DVR owners say that they cannot live without their DVR, according to a survey commissioned by NDS, provider of According to the survey, which asked respondents to rank relative importance of a list of household appliances, apart from the washing machine and the microwave oven, no other household item […]
China and India have the largest mobile TV audiences, according to a new global survey carried out by Telegent. Close to three quarters of respondents Following the opening of the Olympics, Telegent conducted a global survey to discover people's attitudes towards mobile TV and their attitudes to watching coverage of the games on their mobile […]
The proportion of digital households varies with reception methods: 95.1 per cent of terrestrial households have moved to digital TV compared with 86 per cent in 2007. The remaining analogue terrestrial channels will be switched off by the end of this year. The proportion of digital satellite households rose eight percentage points from 2007 figures […]