Traditional Video-on-Demand services, and traditional “siloed” video services currently use a great deal of proprietary, or industry-specific, equipment. Market research firm, In-Stat sees traditional and pay TV service providers migrating to more efficient Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and data centre models based on server virtualisation. This migration enables content portability and will have a direct […]
Italian media company Mediaset is to this week launch a video-on-demand service for its DTT Premium pay-TV offering. Alongside the service, which will have at least 50-movies on offer, it is launching a 160GB DVR at E139. Mediaset expects to have 4.5 million Premium customers by the end of 2010, a 12% increase on 2009. […]
Orange has reached 324,000 subscribers for its Orange cinema series bouquet in France, 1 year after launching the service, with similar audience levels across each of the five channels offered. The service offers a number of features, including multi-screen, catch-up TV and start-over, with nearly 50 per cent of subscribers using catch-up TV, and watching […]
YouTube has taken a significant step toward a UK TV VOD portal with a new section called UK TV and featuring full length TV shows from its deal with C4 and others from US broadcasters. YouTube is posting around 5,000 videos, of which almost 4,000 are full-length programmes, from more than 60 partners. YouTube said […]
Italian media company Mediaset is to this week launch a video-on-demand service for its DTT Premium pay-TV offering. Alongside the service, which will have at least 50-movies on offer, it is launching a 160GB DVR at E139. Mediaset expects to have 4.5 million Premium customers by the end of 2010, a 12% increase on 2009. […]
Scottish ITV franchise owner STV is counter-suing ITV over the VOD rights to ITV shows it airs. STV was already being sued by ITV for £38 million (E42.7m) it claims it's losing by STV not screening its programmes in Scotland. STV's claim is that, though STV acquires rights for linear ITV television shows, ITV Network […]
Fastweb and Walt Disney Television Italy have announced an agreement to offer Disney programmes on demand. As a result, the main contents of the Disney Channel and Playhouse Disney will be available on Fastweb’s IPTV service, without time or listings restrictions, on two channels exclusively devoted to children and tweens. Disney on Demand Bambini and […]
The number of US broadband households watching premium online content, including movies and TV shows via the Internet, doubled in the last year, according to a study from Parks Associates. Currently over 25 million US broadband households regularly watch full-length TV shows online, while over 20 million watch movies online. It says this shift highlights […]
ITV and Hulu are to sign a deal allowing the platform to distribute full-length ITV shows- some exclusively. As part of the deal ITV will gain an equity stake in Hulu UK, understood to be about 25%. Hulu’s parent company is owned equally by Disney, NBC Universal, Providence Equity and News Corp. ITV is the […]
Dish Network has filed for trademark protection on “TV Everywhere,” which the satellite operator plans to use for its forthcoming Slingbox-enabled set-top box. Dish filed the “TV Everywhere” trademark application with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Among other things, the filing covers “television transmission services” as well as “providing access to electronic sites for […]