Sky Italia has announced it will launch the Sky on Demand service on July 1st. The service is included in the subscription with no extra charge, with subscribers being able to choose what programs to watch and when to watch them. In practice, the My Sky HD decoder will daily receive content via the Internet, […]
Kabel Deutschland, Germany’s largest cable operator and RTL Germany have reached an agreement on the distribution of their Free to Air TV, Pay TV and VoD content. As part of the contract, the distribution of the TV channels was agreed in analogue, digital SD and digital HD. Both parties do not disclose contractual details. As […]
Penthouse Digital Media Productions, a specialist in adult entertainment, continues to broaden its international broadcasting footprint by teaming up with German cable leader Kabel Deutschland for the launch of a new branded Transactional VoD service. Penthouse’s programming will be exhibited on the existing KD VoD platform. KD is a leading national cable operator in the […]
Spanish commercial TV channel Antena 3 TV and the electronic manufacturer Samsung have reached an agreement to make VoD content available to all viewers equipped with a Samsung smart phone or tablet. Users will be able to download free-of-charge a specific application from Samsung Apps having access to TV series, current affair and entertainment programmes […]
In what it describes as a milestone for Canadian television, communication and media company Shaw Direct has become the first DTH provider in Canada to use adaptive streaming technology to deliver On Demand content directly to set-top boxes. With the launch of Online Video On Demand last April, Shaw Direct customers are already able to […]
South Africa’s premier TV distribution company CLICKBOOGIE MEDIA has launched BOOGIENIGHTS.TV the first online streaming tv service in Africa to a worldwide audience. The service consists of 7500 titles across a multitude of genres, Action, Cartoons, Christmas, Classics, Comedy, Docs, Drama, Family, Foreign,Thriller, Horror, Shorts etc….And now music too. “New titles are being updated every month, […]
The BBC has upgraded the iPlayer video service with Live Restart ready for its consumer launch. Users can now either restart a live programme they are watching or rewind to watch programmes from the previous two hours. The BBC will bring the function to mobiles, tablets and Internet-connected TVs later this year. Dave Price, head […]
Low cost and viewing flexibility give Netflix an advantage over pay-TV VoD and premium broadcast TV, according to a study from Parks Associates. ‘Choosing Content: Viewing Video’ found Netflix Watch Instantly rates higher in customer satisfaction than premium broadcast TV because of these factors. Netflix also topped pay-TV VoD in terms of cost. “Consumers can […]
iROKOtv, the “Netflix of Africa” and the continent’s first legal online source of Nollywood films, has revealed that it has over 500,000 registered users in less than six months since its launch. The news comes just months after the company announced that it had secured $8 million in funding from US-based hedge Tiger Global, early […]
Dutch telco KPN and its ISP unit XS4ALL will offer its IPTV customers access to US HBO channels from June 25th. KPN subsidiary Telfort Interactive will launch the service to its TV customers from July 9th. The channels will offer commercial-free HBO, HBO2 and HBO3, available in both HD and SD. Customers who subscribe to […]