Last week’s Vivendi results were close to the market’s expectations, although there was subsequently some changes to guidance during the post-results analysts’ calls. For example, Vivendi’s Activision-Blizzard games division saw its guidance raised substantially, with the potential of even further progress. Vivendi is a much diversified business, especially in the telecoms sector, and while the […]
The number of pay-TV households in the US declined by nearly 380,000 in the second quarter as traditional cable and satellite video providers continued to lose subscribers because of economic factors and lower-priced Internet video solutions, according to IHS Screen Digest. Total US TV subscriptions in the second quarter decreased to 100.9 million, down from […]
Sky News is to introduce charges of £4.99 (€5.70) per month. The fees will go through iTunes App Store as an auto-renewing subscription, so Apple will take a 30 per cent cut. App access will continue to be free for those who can authenticate by means of their Sky ID, so app users will be […]
Spanish largest cable TV company ONO is formally launching its new TiVo service in October, initially in Madrid, then Barcelona before extending it to the rest of its fibre network. The service, with a monthly cost of €10, will offer 12 HD channels (Telecinco, Gol T, Fox, AXN, Sony TV, MTV, TVE, Antena 3, La […]
Cryptography Research and Verimatrix, specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-screen digital TV services, have inked a deal that sees Verimatrix license Cryptography Research’s CryptoFirewall security core technology to help build advanced solutions protecting video delivery revenue streams. “Content piracy and theft of service are major commercial concerns for our system operator customers, as […]
Online movie service FilmFlex Movies has added payment solution PayWizard as an online payment mechanism. The first deployment of the PayWizard e-wallet is now live on the Film4oD website. FilmFlex Movies is the sixth customer to deploy the PayWizard platform since the start of 2011; existing customers include Racing UK (Android/iPhone apps) and Omnimotion (online […]
In an almost perfect case of ‘putting his money where his mouth is’, BSkyB CEO Jeremy Darroch has put all of his annual salary into a share-buying spree. He has bought £384,670-worth of BSkyB shares (at £6.41 a share) which accounts for almost all of his net salary after tax and statutory deductions. But Darroch […]
NDS has launched its next generation DRM solution for multi-platform pay-TV: VideoGuard Connect. It says the solution provides end-to-end protection of an operator’s service, using the unique security capabilities of each individual platform. VideoGuard Connect is designed to help TV operators to seamlessly extend their pay-TV services to connected media devices. It enables the secure […]
Modern Times Group (MTG), has entered into a strategic cooperation with Samsung Electronics Nordic. MTG’s Viaplay service is now available on all 2011 Samsung Smart TVs and 2010 Internet@TV sets across the Nordic region. Viewers simply need to subscribe to Viaplay in order to access the service. The Viaplay pan-Nordic multi-screen on-demand service makes Viasat […]
India has just crossed the 100 million mark for pay TV subscribers, representing more than 70 per cent of TV households. According to the India Digital TV Forecasts report, there is still plenty of growth to come, with 139 million pay TV subs forecast for 2016. ARPUs will remain low in India, though pay TV […]