LG has linked with the UK's Freesat to launch products integrated with Freesat functionality, later this year. Though the venture will kick start with manufacturing digital TVs integrated with Freesat tuners, there are prospects for launching more Freesat-integrated products in future, LG noted.
In a surprise last minute move, Lionsgate has stepped in to snap up TV Guide Network and its web presence after the owners had agreed to sell to TV producer Allen Shapiro and One Equity Partners. The news sees owner Macrovision Solutions Corp. selling the company for $255 million to the Hollywood studio. The sale […]
The National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) is putting new DTV-to-analogue converter box coupon applications on a waiting list, having already run up against its statutory maximum of $1.34 billion funding limit. That means anyone down that list won’t get their boxes in time for the Feb. 17 transition date. “On Sunday, Jan 4, NTIA […]
Richard Li, chairman of PCCW, and his Chinese state-controlled partner have raised their offer to take the Hong Kong telecoms company private in an 11th-hour bid to win over disgruntled minority shareholders. Just before a meeting at which PCCW shareholders were expected to reject an initial buy-out proposal priced at HK$4.20 a share, Li and […]
Over 80 copyright holders including video portal Joy.cn, film distributor PolyBona Film, and record label Orange Sky Entertainment have formed an anti-piracy alliance, and are suing China's largest video-sharing site Tudou. In May 2008, Joy.cn filed suit against Tudou for unauthorised use of its video content, which Tudou resolved in November with an out-of-court settlement […]
An IMS Research study has revealed that 46 million homes in twenty-five Chinese cities have converted from analogue to digital cable. While DTH is expected to serve the majority of HDTV households in the Asia Pacific region, cable in China is expected to be the dominant digital platform for the country by the end of […]
Samsung and Yahoo have become the latest pairing to announce plans to launch a new web-based service for Samsung-branded TVs in the spring of 2009. Based on Yahoo’s Widget Engine, the service will be available on select 2009 Samsung HDTVs and allow users to interact with a set of “TV Widgets” to complement and enhance […]
Arris has revealed that Ziggo, a major cable MSO in the Netherlands comprised of the former operators @HOME, Casema and Multikabel, has placed a large initial order for the Arris Touchstone TM702 series of DOCSIS 3.0-certified E-MTAs. Ziggo will use the in-home devices to market much faster Internet speeds along with carrier-grade Voice over IP […]
Verimatrix, provider of content security technologies, has confirmed Bouygues Telecom as the latest network operator in France to deploy the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) for IPTV. Bouygues Telecom is securing its MPEG-4 live broadcast and on-demand video content delivered via ASDL to the BBOX home gateway.
French viewers have for the first time watched prime-time television without advert breaks, as President Nicolas Sarkozy’s media reforms get under way, but journalists at the national stations are threatening to strike. Advertising is now banned on French public television between 20.00hrs and 0600hrs and will be phased out altogether by 2011. It is part […]