Streaming21, player in broadcast-quality streaming solutions, Sampo, 3C brand for electrical home appliances, and Microsoft Taiwan have announced the formation of the Digital Home Alliance and publicly debut co-developed digital home innovations. The companies are bringing to market end-to-end digital home solutions aimed at connecting the digital home with the networked world via “killer” applications […]
LUXE.TV, the first channel entirely dedicated to the world of luxury, called on GlobeCast for its launch on Sky in the United Kingdom. Produced and distributed in HD, LUXE.TV's signal will be uplinked to Sky's bouquet on Eurobird.
The BBC has launched a new version of iPlayer which can be used on Macs for the first time. Eric Huggers, the BBC group controller of future media and technology, also revealed it is adding social media tools and better integration of features on the new look bbc.co.uk website, which will relaunch by the end […]
Discovery Holding Company and Advance/Newhouse Programming Partnership announced that they have signed a non-binding letter of intent pursuant to which DHC and Advance/Newhouse will combine their stakes in Discovery Communications. This will mean DHC will spin-off to its shareholders a wholly-owned subsidiary holding the networks and creative services businesses of Ascent Media Group. Immediately following […]
Sirius and XM, are reported to be facing growing doubts over their ability to secure antitrust clearance for a $13 billion merger announ-ced in February. Although a tough regulatory approval process was ex-pected for the deal, which unites the top two satellite radio providers, the companies and many investors were optimistic that antitrust enforcers at […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome Portuguese public broadcaster RTP has started transmitting its first TV channel in high definition for mobile phones. According to the head of the project, Carlos Vargas, this is the first HD mobile project in Portugal and is being conducted in partnership with mobile operator Optimus and Nokia, with the technological […]
According to research from Cisco, broadband users in Western Europe may be even more interested in living 'The Connected Life' than US consumers, and many are willing to pay for the value a service like this can provide. Ninety-per cent of European broadband users expressed an interest in a connected life service – anytime, anywhere […]
ITV’s digital channels are on course to make more than £200 million (E289m) this year, the commercial broadcaster has revealed Network advertising revenues at the channels – ITV2, ITV3, ITV4, children’s channel CITV and Men & Motors – is expected to be up 32 per cent year-on-year to £209 million. Growth at ITV’s digital services […]
HBO is to become the first broadcaster to receive ratings for its on-demand offerings, in a deal with The Nielsen Company for measurement of the usage of its SVOD services. Nielsen will measure usage of HBO On Demand and Cinemax On Demand via its National People Meter VOD Audience Measurement service, providing data on the […]
Internet service provider Tiscali will launch an advertising campaign in January in a major push to reach 200,000 customers using its broadband-based television service in Britain by the end of 2008. Mary Turner, chief executive of Tiscali’s UK division told Reuters that the group was signing 250 new registrations for the TV offering a day […]