Reports in the US say online video platform Joost is actively seeking a buyer and has told cable and satellite providers that it could be their online video solution. Time Warner Cable is one of the companies that has expressed interest in Joost say the reports. In the online video sector, Joost has fallen far […]
Agama Technologies thas revealed that Telekom Austria has deployed the Agama Digital-TV Monitoring Solution to ensure the quality at their IPTV Head-end Platform. The business is executed in a partnership and under the lead of systems integrator Alcatel-Lucent. Service quality is an important core business value with TV service operators all over the world and […]
With US households reluctant to cancel home services despite the down economy, growth in cable and IPTV VoD services will remain strong, with revenues exceeding $11 billion by 2013, according to Parks Associates. “Currently 37 per cent of US digital cable customers use premium VoD regularly, up from 21 per cent in late 2004,” said […]
Broadband households in Europe and the US consistently rank primetime anytime VOD services as the most valuable service out of all TV 2.0 offerings, according to the Parks Associates report 'Television Services: The Global Outlook'. The international research firm says that primetime anytime services, which allow viewers to watch a show on-demand on their TV […]
Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM), the largest multiple system operator in Japan based on the number of customers served, has announced that the total subscribing households as of March 31st, 2009 served by J:COM's 24 consolidated franchises reached 3.18 million, up 466,500, or 17.2 per cent since March 31st, 2008. Combined revenue generating units (RGUs) for cable […]
The market for fixed-net Internet access in the EU is forecast to grow in 2009 by 8.4 per cent to a new record value of E37.9 billion, according to market research institute EITO. According to EITO calculations, total data traffic in the Internet is increasing every year by around 50 to 60 per cent. The […]
Holland’s largest cable operator, Ziggo, has launched on-demand services across its entire network. Viewers will require a new set-top box to access the service, with Samsung and Cisco currently offering devices. Ziggo, currently connected to 3.2 million homes, has signed a number of on-demand deals, including ones with Disney and Warner Bros. Ziggo will offer […]
Almost half of digital television households in the UK are now choosing to pay for access to additional television channels, with satellite and cable services driving growth of digital TV according to research from Ofcom. Its Digital Progress Report for the fourth quarter of 2008 reveals that 49.5 per cent of households have a pay […]
Ignoring Bob Iger's dismissal of the online subscription model, Time Warner chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes unveiled HBO Go, a broadband complement to the premium network only for subscribers to the linear service. “We’re all being too slow,” Bewkes said. “We should put up all our networks on the Internet, out on broadband right now. […]
Phorm, the ad targeting company, is facing a major setback, with several of the world’s largest dotcom companies considering boycotting its controversial online advertising technology. Last month Open Rights Group, the privacy campaign group, sent a letter to nine of the internet’s biggest names – including Google, Bebo, Facebook and Yahoo – asking them to […]