Top Up TV, provider of content on Freeview, has inked a strategic agreement with Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD) to offer new entertainment on-demand to Top Up TV Anytime subscribers through Warner TV, a VOD channel. Programmes from Warner TV are available immediately. In addition, Top Up TV and Warner Bros have agreed terms […]
The BBC is developing plans to bring its web video iPlayer catch-up service to television screens, in a move that would take its online ambitions to a new level and pit the corporation against technology groups such as Apple. Mark Thompson, BBC director-general, told the FT it was “looking very hard at” forming an alliance […]
Macrovision Solutions has signed a license agreement with Yahoo Japan, the country's largest web portal. Under the terms of the agreement, Yahoo Japan will deploy a syndicated version of G-GUIDE, Macrovision's interactive programme guide (IPG) service in Japan, through Yahoo TV.
James Murdoch, head of News Corp TV in Europe, is said to be considering bids that would bring Premiere of Germany and Digital+ of Spain into the group's European pay-TV family. The two satellite broadcasters together would cost more than E4 billion analysts say. Although News Corp is already a shareholder in Premiere and has […]
Italy’s Piedmont Region, together with Eutelsat, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to leverage satellite technology to accelerate the availability of digital services for all of Piedmont’s citizens irrespective of their location. In order to develop its WI-PIE programme (Wireless Piemonte), the Piedmont Region, in collaboration with CSI-Piemonte, TOP-IX, CSP and IRES, is committed to bridging […]
Thirty-six per cent of Brits questioned in a survey admitted to making illegal copies of DVDs. This is more than in the US, where 32 per cent of people owned up to copying DVDs. Most copies were made from DVDs that had been purchased, though a significant proportion – 30 per cent – were made […]
Consumers are demanding more personalization and entertainment content on their mobile phones, driving mobile video revenue to exceed $3.5 billion in 2008, according to research by MultiMedia Intelligence. By 2012, the mobile video and mobile TV market will exceed $15 billion, including direct pay and advertising. Mobile video, which relies on the mobile operator's 3G […]
Widevine has filed a claim for patent infringement against Verimatrix. The lawsuit accuses Verimatrix of infringing a Widevine patent through its ViewRight client application. The lawsuit seeks damages and an injunction to stop sales of the infringing products.This patent describes a process and streaming server for encrypting a data stream to a virtual smart card […]
BitBandTechnologies has signed a contract with Scaberia, the Norway-based technology and innovations consultancy firm. The aim of is to enhance the current BitBand strategy and to expand its market activities via Scaberia's ‘know how' in the telecommunications and media industries. "The market is demanding new innovative solutions in much shorter cycles than before. Our relationship […]
The first in a series of new ‘three-screen' reports by Nielsen shows an emerging shift toward a more video-centric use of the Internet, but not at the expense of television viewing. The report is an effort by Nielsen to "follow the video" as consumer viewing habits shift.The average American spent 127 hours of time with […]