OTT TV platform Magine TV has launched its beta service in the UK, offering ‘TV For Me’: a subscription-based, personalised live TV experience, streamed directly with no cables, hardware or contracts. Its launch follows that of TVPlayer, Simplestream’s OTT streaming platform, which in addition to a range of free-to-air services, recently announced the launch of […]
Following the news on July 28th that Telstra had joined the Roku Powered licensing programme, the Australian telco has revealed further details of Telstra TV, its new streaming service designed specifically for Australian consumers. Joe Pollard, Telstra GMD Media and Marketing confirmed plans to offer customers the three leading subscription video on demand services – […]
New findings from Hub Entertainment Research show that while cord cutting remains low, online TV is becoming the default for key TV segments and scenarios. In a very short time, online TV sources have become more common than not: more than three-quarters of TV consumers watch online to some extent, and the average pay TV […]
Over 60 million people around the world are bypassing online restrictions to use the BBC’s iPlayer service, according to figures from research company GlobalWebIndex. It claims nearly 65 million people from abroad watch the UK licence-fee funded iPlayer service using proxy servers or virtual private networks (VPNs). In China alone it estimates that there are […]
Findings from the Consumer Entertainment Index (CEI) produced by IP, video and broadband technology specialist ARRIS, suggest that binge-viewing has ‘gone solo’ in 2015. According to
Connected television in Germany and Austria has now passed the threshold into rapid and sustained growth, The total number of SVoD subscriber grew by 46 per cent in the first six months of 2015, according to consulting firm Deadline Media TV. This is without any noticeable cord cutting.The primary challenge of OTT TV is to […]
Humax and Freesat have launched the most compact Freetime set-top box recorder to date, bringing the benefits of the subscription free satellite TV service to a wider group of space-conscious consumers. Integrated Wi-Fi has been built-in to the new PVR range for seamless access to Freesat’s Freetime on-demand and catch-up players including BBC iPlayer, ITV […]
BBC Worldwide, the Corporation’s commercial arm, has published its 2014/15 Annual Review, announcing stable headline results, record returns to the BBC and continuing investment and transformation plans for the business. Results are significantly impacted by the deal struck in October 2014 to form an equity partnership with AMC Networks for BBC AMERICA, making the channel, […]
The BBC is rolling out the latest update to the iPlayer mobile app for Android and iOS mobile devices, featuring a new consistent menu across both platforms. Explaining the update to the navigation system, Tom Widd Senior UX Designer for BBC iPlayer, wrote in a blog: “Users will be presented with a consistent menu bar […]
As consumers embrace and experiment with a host of new ways of watching TV content, a new GfK MRI report has identified six new TV viewing audience groups and how they combine emerging and traditional options for TV use. TV Share of Clock – the first of four studies in GfK MRI’s new The Future of TV […]