At the 2009 China Digital TV Forum, Wang Xiaojie, director of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television’s (SARFT) Department of Science and Technology, said that SARFT will increase its demands on the ongoing DTV conversion efforts, calling on networks which have already converted to DTV to more quickly switch to bi-directional DTV, and […]
Investment analysts Piper Jaffray have predicted Apple will enter the TV market by 2011 with an Apple-branded television set with digital video recording and home media functions. “With the popularity of ad-based internet TV and subscription models, we believe a-la-carte (iTunes) video purchases have lost share against other video models in recent months. As such, […]
Channel 4 is to show previously unseen footage of the Queen shot in 3D during her coronation year. The two hour-long shows will tell the story of two men – now in their 80s – who filmed the 3D newsreel. Special glasses needed to view them will be given out free in Sainsbury’s stores before […]
The UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is to launch an investigation into how the habits and personal information of web users are used to target Internet advertising. Competition regulators said they had been prompted to launch the study, which could ultimately lead to an industry code of practice, because of a need to “update […]
The Supreme Court in Israel has rejected the planned merger of telco Bezeq with DTH satellite platform Yes. Bezeq intended to increase its stake in Yes to 58% from the present 49.8%. However, the Supreme Court accepted petitions from the anti-trust authority and Yes minority shareholder Eurocom Group who wanted to stop the merger as […]
Some readers of Entertainment Weekly next month will discover characters from US television programmes speaking to them from a wafer-thin video screen built into the page. The experiment – which is being conducted by CBS and Pepsi, card, will see the video starting once a reader turns the appropriate page. The cost of the full-motion […]
BBC Worldwide has struck a deal to make hundreds of hours of content available via the UK online video service blinkbox. Popular titles on DVD, such as Top Gear, Gavin & Stacey, Spooks and Planet Earth, will cost users £1.89 (E2.19) an episode to download from which is still finalising what it will charge for […]
Sony is launching a video-on-demand service on the PlayStation3 and PlayStation Portable as it continues its fight with Microsoft's Xbox 360. The PlayStation Network Video Store will allow users in the UK, France, Germany and Spain to buy or rent movies from November. Deals have been made with movie studios including MGM, Paramount Pictures, Sony […]
Blockbuster has unveiled plans to feature the Blockbuster OnDemand movie download service in select Motorola phones, giving Motorola access to the OnDemand service and furthering Blockbuster’s digital strategy by providing its library of digital entertainment to mobile devices for the first time. Through the agreement some Motorola phones will feature an exclusive Blockbuster OnDemand application, […]
News Corp has unveiled details of a shake-up of its Hong Kong-based Star television group as James Murdoch, chairman and chief executive for Europe and Asia, looks to cut costs and consolidate overlapping businesses in the region. About 150-200 jobs at Star are expected to go in the Hong Kong office over the next 12 […]