Youku, China’s largest video hosting site, has partnered with Disney to begin streaming the studio’s TV shows. The videos are subtitled in Chinese. The agreement with Disney comes as Chinese video hosting sites are moving away from showing illegally uploaded content. Chinese users continue to upload pirated popular American TV shows and movies to sites […]
Find Any Film, an on-demand movies search website backed by the UK Film Council, has confirmed its support for new IPTV platform YouView. The site, which enables UK film fans to watch, buy, download and rent movies, sees YouView as the “first major opportunity to be on a mainstream TV platform and reach out directly […]
French media regulator the CSA has extended the trial period for pay-DTT broadcaster TV Numéric and transmission provider TDF to trial on-demand services over the DTT network. The extension runs until November 30 to complete tests of the delivery of on-demand services downloaded to set-tops in Rouen.
As of next month, Sony PS3 owners will be able to order a movie using the Lovefilm app, and choose whether to stream it via their games console or continue ordering the DVDs to be delivered. The app will also let users curate their movie and game rental lists. Lovefilm is also rumoured to be […]
The media producers organisation in France, SACD, has insisted the sector must be protected and not be ‘held hostage’ to European harmonisation. It spoke out in criticising the CSA’s opposition to the Government’s plan to make content quotas part of the price of attaining a VOD operating licence. The CSA thinks national and European quotas […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]