Korean mobile TV operators will introduce interactive services in December. The country’s six terrestrial DMB operators will start ‘DMB 2.0’ services and allow customers to access a range of data services such as e-commerce, stock updates, and personal video recording. Despite the services being available shortly, there are no handsets as yet that support the […]
Traditional Video-on-Demand services, and traditional “siloed” video services currently use a great deal of proprietary, or industry-specific, equipment. Market research firm, In-Stat sees traditional and pay TV service providers migrating to more efficient Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and data centre models based on server virtualisation. This migration enables content portability and will have a direct […]
Virgin Media has launched dynamic advertising on its on demand TV platform. Ads from brands including L’Oreal, Sony Ericsson, Kelloggs and Microsoft, will appear around on demand content from Living, Virgin1 and Bravo. Advertising will roll-out across Virgin Media's on demand TV service, currently in 3.7 million households, beginning with 300,000 homes from this month. […]
International investment and industrial group Bolloré is interested in taking over one of two pay digital terrestrial television (DTT) frequencies vacant since the closure of AB1 and Canal J earlier this year, according to Les Echos. The Bolloré Group already broadcasts the Direct8 channel on free DTT. France Telecom's Orange, which launched pay channels Orange […]
John Malone, who's Liberty Media is the largest individual shareholder in DirecTV told US media “I can be the first one to say DirecTV is not for sale”. Liberty Media split off DirecTV last week to combine it with some its cable network assets creating an independent and larger DirecTV. This has sparked speculation the […]
Archie Norman, the new chairman of ITV, is reportedly considering plans to charge for the broadcaster’s spin-off digital channels ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4. Despite Norman not joining the company until January, a number of reports hinted at the direction in which he is preparing to take ITV. 'City sources' told newspapers Norman believes it was […]
Italian media company Mediaset is to this week launch a video-on-demand service for its DTT Premium pay-TV offering. Alongside the service, which will have at least 50-movies on offer, it is launching a 160GB DVR at E139. Mediaset expects to have 4.5 million Premium customers by the end of 2010, a 12% increase on 2009. […]
Orange has reached 324,000 subscribers for its Orange cinema series bouquet in France, 1 year after launching the service, with similar audience levels across each of the five channels offered. The service offers a number of features, including multi-screen, catch-up TV and start-over, with nearly 50 per cent of subscribers using catch-up TV, and watching […]
YouTube has taken a significant step toward a UK TV VOD portal with a new section called UK TV and featuring full length TV shows from its deal with C4 and others from US broadcasters. YouTube is posting around 5,000 videos, of which almost 4,000 are full-length programmes, from more than 60 partners. YouTube said […]
Italian media company Mediaset is to this week launch a video-on-demand service for its DTT Premium pay-TV offering. Alongside the service, which will have at least 50-movies on offer, it is launching a 160GB DVR at E139. Mediaset expects to have 4.5 million Premium customers by the end of 2010, a 12% increase on 2009. […]