Senior execs have used the NCTA in Chicago to play down the cord cutting threat that Netflix poses. “Our industry has always been about new content. Netflix is primarily a service that provides library programming,” said Philippe Dauman, chief executive of Viacom. Robert Marcus, chief operating officer of Time Warner Cable was even more bullish, […]
Best Buy is bringing its CinemaNow online video download service to Canada later this summer, offering users the ability to buy or rent movies online and adding another competitor to Canada’s growing digital media market. Best Buy and Future Shop intend to launch the service sometime in August with a library of more than 10,000 […]
The BBC will begin the process of introducing its international iPlayer to overseas audiences with iPads later this year. Users in western Europe will have to pay somewhere under €8 a month for the service. Jana Bennett – president of worldwide networks and global iPlayer at BBC Worldwide – says the international version of the […]
SeaChange International has expanded its range of multi-screen advertising capabilities with the announcement of a joint solution with This Technology, a provider of software solutions for advertising insertion. The joint solution provides video operators with a single web-based interface to manage advertising campaigns across VoD, Internet and mobile platforms. Immediately available and planned for demonstrations […]
Video-on-demand (VoD) services are gaining significant traction in markets such as North America and Europe, where large pay-TV operators have formed content portfolios consisting of thousands of movies and TV shows. IMS Research estimates that in 2010, the North American VoD market generated $1.98 billion in revenues, and the European VoD market totalled $1.11 billion. […]
LoveFilm and The Walt Disney Company Germany have signed a Transactional Video on Demand and Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD) feature film streaming deal. German members of LoveFilm, streaming movies and TV episodes over the Internet and sending DVDs by post—will be able to rent and stream a selection of titles from Walt Disney’s movie […]
Steve Jobs returned from medical leave to reveal iCloud the web-based service to synchronise content users store and share across their Apple devices – but not TV or movies yet. Anyone buying an app, book or music track for one device will see it replicated on the other Apple devices they own. “We are demoting […]
As reported here yesterday, Microsoft Corp has used day one of E3 in Los Angeles confirm plans for live TV via Xbox. It also confirmed plans presaged at CES in January to put its Kinect motion control into play for controlling media options on the platform so channels and VoD can be chosen with voice […]
HBO Central Europe has launched HBO GO in Hungary, following launches of the service in Poland, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia and Romania, continuing the rollout of HBO GO across the region. From June 6th HBO GO will be available to subscribers of TARR Kft, Tolna, Somogy, Baranya, Bács-Kiskun, Fejér, Zala and Veszprém who have […]
Canal Plus is claiming a new record for videos viewed on its canalplus.fr website, with 26.7 million viewed in May 2011, representing a 78 per cent increase over the corresponding month in 2010. The site also beat its previous record of visits, recording 12.8 million as opposed to 9.8 million a year previously, an increase […]