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Swisscon selects Eutelsat's Tooway

Eutelsat Communications has inked a major contract for its new Tooway satellite broadband Ka-band service with Swisscom, Switzerland’s leading telecommunications company. According to the agreement with Swisscom, Eutelsat’s Tooway service is the satellite component of a far-reaching universal broadband programme for all Swiss homes. Swisscom won a tender from the Swiss Ministry for Telecommunications to […]

January 17, 2008

Netflix offers unlimited access

Video rental company Netflix is now offering subscribers unlimited access to movies and television shows to watch via the Web on their personal computers. The feature will be open to all subscribers already on one of their unlimited monthly video rental plans, with no extra charge. Until now, Netflix had limited the number of hours […]

January 17, 2008

Viasat choose Pace for Nordic HD PVR

Pace Micro Technology has been selected by Viasat Broadcasting, the leading digital satellite payTV broadcaster in Scandinavia and the Baltic states, to be the launch partner for its HD PVR service. Viasat will be deploying the Pace TDS850NV HD PVR to households across the Nordic countries.

January 17, 2008

Technetix self install order

Technetix Group have signed an agreement with a major European telecom PTT for the supply of self install kits. The supply agreement starts in January 2008 and will be for a minimum annual quantity of 10,000 kits. The kits will be used to interconnect their IPTV system within the home. Technetix says it has been […]

January 17, 2008

Arcor chooses NDS VideoGuard

NDS has revealed that Arcor, the second largest telecommunications provider in Germany, has selected NDS VideoGuard content protection to secure its new IPTV service. Arcor-Digital TV will initially be available in 51 German cities and communities offering digital TV and advanced entertainment services such as VOD.

January 17, 2008

3.5m downloads for iPlayer

Over 3.5 million programmes were streamed or downloaded on demand via the BBC iPlayer within a fortnight of its marketing launch on Christmas Day. The BBC reveals that an average of a quarter of a million programmes have been downloaded or streamed each day since December 25th. Users, on average, watch each streamed programme for […]

January 16, 2008

Viasat goes HD

Modern Times Group has confirmed that Viasat Broadcasting has launched its HDTV offering on its Nordic Satellite pay-TV platform, including two Viasat-branded premium HDTV channels – TV1000 HD and Viasat Sport HD. The initial line up of Viasat's HDTV channels consists of TV1000 HD and National Geographic Channel HD in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland […]

January 16, 2008

MTV Adria for sale, CME interested

From Branislav Pekic in Rome US media group CME has emerged as the frontrunner for the acquisition of regional music channel MTV Adria, according to local media reports. CME already owns MTV Romania, as well as commercial broadcasters in Croatia (Nova TV), Slovenia (Pop TV, Kanal A), Romania (Pro TV, Acasa TV, Sport.ro), Slovakia (Markiza, […]

January 16, 2008

Samsung in bribery probe

Samsung, the world's biggest memory chip maker, has reported a fall in 2007 profit as lower chip prices overshadowed the strong performance of the flat panel display and telecoms businesses. The results were announced as a team of special investigators raided the headquarters of Samsung Group as part of an independent probe into bribery allegations. […]

January 16, 2008

Sky boosts Anytime

Sky is to launch its first TV ad promoting Sky Anytime on-demand service as part of a multimillion-pound campaign for Sky Movies. The TV ad for the Sky Anytime PC service, which uses the tagline “Nobody likes watching the clock”, features the Billie Holiday song Any Old Time. BSkyB has created a series of three […]

January 16, 2008