Global consumer spend on online video has exploded in 2011, according to the latest research – Global OTT Video Forecast: Q4 2011 – from Strategy Analytics. Global online video spend will soar to $3.5 billion in 2011. While transactional revenue growth is slowing in maturing territories, subscription revenues driven by specialists – such as Netflix […]
Netflix has released a new member experience for Xbox 360 users. Netflix states the new Xbox interface makes it more intuitive and easier to explore the expanding Netflix catalogue. “For the first time, the Netflix interface on Xbox has been created entirely by Netflix, offering a unique member experience,” said Neil Hunt, chief product officer […]
SeaChange International subsidiary On Demand Group (ODG), the European VoD aggregator, has launched a premium TV subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) to subscribers to Cablevision, Mexico’s leading cable provider. The new service will enable Cablevision subscribers to view a wide selection of premium TV series and children’s programmes, blockbuster studio and independent movies and the latest music […]
BskyB finance director Andrew Griffith told the UBS conference the Competition Commission’s judgment that Sky Movies is anti-competitive in on-demand movies “was perplexing… The movies market has never been more competitive.” “Sky has never traded on exclusivity. Every movie that’s ever been on Sky Movies has had a theatrical release and has been in Asda […]
“They’re becoming more Netflix-like,” Reed Hastings, Netflix’s chief executive, said of HBO Go, which he called “quite impressive.” And “we’re becoming more HBO-like,” he said, citing Netflix’s successful bid to make and distribute “House of Cards,” a new drama series. “I think the two of us will compete for a very long time; hopefully we’ll […]
Jana Bennett, president of BBC Worldwide Networks and Global BBC iPlayer, has confirmed that the Global iPlayer app, currently in trial phase on the iPad, is to extend to further Apple devices She told delegates at the Digital TV World Summit in London that from December 8th, the app will be available on the iPhone […]
Rogers Communications has confirmed that the Rogers On Demand app on Xbox 360s in Canada will be coming to the Xbox LIVE dashboard this Christmas. The app is the first time Rogers On Demand will be available on a gaming console. The app, free for Rogers customers, will include over 1,000 hours of video content […]
Microsoft has announced a major update for Xbox 360 consoles. It has signed up 40 media firms to provide both live and on-demand movie and TV services for the console. The update also lets people control their TVs by talking into the Kinect motion-control. The most noticeable change made by the update will be to […]
Internet-enabled TV devices, including Smart TVs, connected Blu-Ray players, game consoles, and streaming media players continue to grow their footprint within consumers’ homes. Already about 17 million US households currently own a connected TV, and ownership of streaming media players has nearly doubled since the end of 2010. Yet only a fraction of consumers that […]
Ericsson has supplied Tata Sky, an Indian DTH operator, with an advanced TV on-demand system that enables its eight million satellite subscribers to enjoy movies on-demand and catch-up TV. The deployment is one of the first in the world to be based on Ericsson’s Media Delivery Network (MDN), a media-centric solution for the distribution, delivery […]