Advanced Television

VOD

Capablue launches Connected

Capablue, the Web – TV convergence agency, has launched Connected, its fully customisable portal platform for multiple devices and content platforms. Connected is a platform for the rapid development and deployment of video sites to TVs. Developed in partnership with Brightcove and TV Genius, it delivers a simple managed solution for content owners to provide […]

October 8, 2010

Red Bee VOD partnership with ITV

Red Bee Media has entered into a partnership with ITV to store, enhance and deliver content to platforms including ITV Broadcasting, Amazon, BT Vision, iTunes, ITV.com and Virgin Media.  Each week the company will ingest 240 hours of broadcast quality programming and transcode over 1500 hours of ITV content into multiple VOD and catch up […]

October 7, 2010

New Media selects Tvinci for on demand

New Media Digital Contents, a provider of digital on demand content in Portugal, has formed a strategic partnership with Tvinci, a Pay-TV on demand video platform provider, to create a white box subscription/pay-on-demand service for EMEA and Latin America. New Media has selected Tvinci to help launch its next generation FilmBox concept, a white label […]

October 5, 2010

Research: iPlayer tops usability chart

A report from user experience consultancy Webcredible says that the BBC iPlayer is leading major UK broadcasters in the VoD usability stakes with a score of 88 per cent, followed by Scottish broadcaster STV with its STV Player coming in second with 76 per cent Sky Player scored just 55 per cent, with admittedly a […]

October 1, 2010

Paramount show secures online VOD deals

Paramount Pictures has struck a series of international digital distribution deals for The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers, an online adventure series. The series, which Paramount calls The LXD, has already been a hit online in the US, where it is available via Hulu The series has topped the Hulu viewing charts, beating established TV shows, […]

September 30, 2010

Rainbow Media selects BlackArrow

BlackArrow, a worldwide provider of advanced advertising solutions for New Television platforms, has announced the BlackArrow Advanced Advertising System has been selected by Rainbow Media Holdings for a multiphase trial of dynamic video-on-demand (VoD) advertising, currently underway. Rainbow Media owns and operates some of the world’s most popular and award-winning entertainment brands, including AMC, IFC, […]

September 30, 2010

Warner VOD for VimpelCom

Russian telco VimpelCom has made an agreement with Warner Brothers Digital Distribution for content to be added to the VOD library of the telco’s IPTV service ‘Beeline TV’. Content covered by the deal includes new movies with rental costing RUB75 ($2.45), and older, back-catalogue movies costing RUB 50.

September 28, 2010

YouView: ‘killing off rivals’

YouView, the VOD service born from a partnership between the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, TalkTalk, BT, Channel 5 and Arqiva, is strangling investment in rival Internet TV services, according to a report by the corporate finance firm Avista Partners. And Electra Entertainment, a company that provides online TV services to clients including Tesco, has told […]

September 28, 2010

Sony, Warner, Disney plan cinema window service

Sony Pictures, Warner Bros and Walt Disney are in talks with the largest cable TV systems to offer films for as much as $30 per showing straight after they run in cinemas. The studios are talking with In Demand, a partnership of Cox Communications, Comcast and Time Warner Cable, Bob Benya, chief executive officer of […]

September 27, 2010

du and On Demand ink deal with MBC

On Demand Group have completed a deal with MBC to provide hundreds of hours of Arabic TV content to UAE’s integrated telecom service provider du’s VOD TV service. In the first subscription VOD and Catch-Up TV deal by MBC – a major free-to-air Middle Eastern TV broadcaster – top TV series will be available to […]

September 24, 2010