YouTube will spend approximately $300 million on bandwidth in 2009 — meaning it won’t be profitable, according to an analysis by Credit Suisse. According to the report' authors that means YouTube still would not be profitable at the gross level this year, given their original 2009 revenue estimate of $240 million (a top-line increase of […]
The FTTH Council Europe has unveiled the latest figures showing which EU countries are leading the way in the penetration of fibre-to-the-home. Sweden leads the line-up of the top 10 adopters of FTTH services with more than 10 per cent of FTTH penetration, followed by Norway, Slovenia, Andorra, Denmark, Iceland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Slovakia and […]
Supermarket giant Tesco and Microsoft have signed a collaboration agreement to launch an online video service. Starting in the autumn, Tesco will allow customers in the UK who purchase certain home video titles from Tesco to download ‘digital’ versions of movies to their PCs in a ‘virtual DVD’ experience. In addition, the digital versions will […]
UK Intellectual property minister David Lammy has defended the government's revised plans to disconnect the most persistent illegal file-sharers against growing criticism from ISPs, consumer groups and now some content representatives. Speaking to the Motion Picture Association of America in Washington he said the new proposals "send a clear message: when it comes to piracy […]
AT&T has publicly launched the beta version of a video portal — which serves up free TV shows and movies to any Internet user, and promises even more to U-verse TV customers — with content from more than a dozen programming partners. The site, http://entertainment.att.net/tv, promises U-verse TV customers “bonus content” if they log in […]
The UK government's revised, tougher plans to tackle online piracy have been dismissed as "grossly unfair" and "misconceived" by the leaders of ISPs who warn against creating an "extrajudicial kangaroo court" to cut off persistent P2P offenders. The CEOs of BT, and TalkTalk and Orange UK, wrote to The Times calling for a re-think on […]
The RVU Alliance has announced that Verizon will become its fifth Founding Promoter. Verizon joins Broadcom, Cisco, DirecTV and Samsung, in the alliance to develop a specification for a new 'pixel accurate"'Remote User Interface (RUI) that will form the core of the new RVU home networking technology. The objective is to make it simple and […]
MoMedia International, a digital distributor of VOD services backed by Endemol and Shemaroo Entertainment, an entertainment company from India, have concluded an exclusive five year deal with BT Vision to create and manage Bolly & Beyond, a new South Asian VOD service for the UK.
More than $10bn in advertising disappeared from US media markets in the first six months of this year, according to new data from Nielsen showing a 15.4 per cent year-on-year decline. The study showed sharp differences in the behaviour of different media and product categories, with cable television the only medium on which ad spend […]
The Korean Cable TV Association said the number of digital cable TV subscribers stood at 2. 3 million as of the end of June, accounting for 15.1 percent of all 15.3 million cable TV subscribers. By cable TV broadcaster, 146,565, or 32.4 percent of 453,042 GS subscribers have switched to digital, together with 663,669 or […]