Orb TV joins the fight for web-to-TV viewers in the US. The super thin Orb plugs directly into a television and streams content to the TV via a computer running free Orb software, called Orb Caster. The software acts like a personal content control tower. Joe Costello, chief executive and founder of Orb Networks, recognises […]
US Dish Network has launched a ‘true TV Everywhere’ offering enabling Dish Network subscribers to watch live and recorded television programmes on compatible smartphones, tablets and laptops. Dish Network subscribers can access these features when they download and use the Dish Remote Access application via their broadband-connected, Sling-enabled receiver. Dish Network has introduced Sling Adapter, […]
Cineplex Entertainment has revealed movies can now be digitally downloaded into Canadian homes with Download To Own (DTO) and VOD service from the online Cineplex Store. New releases will be available for digital download on the same day they are released on DVD and Blu-ray. Effective immediately, digital downloads purchased from Cineplex.com can be played […]
Hulu has confirmed that its premium Hulu Plus is now available to everyone (in the US) to sign-up and use and it is dropping the trial price of $9.99 a month to $7.99 and will be crediting those who took it up at the old price. US financial press has reported Hulu is considering an […]
ITV blames the after effects of last year’s Susan Boyle boom in traffic for a year-on-year decline in ITV.com’s video viewing figures for the first nine months of 2010. ITV.com’s video views fell by 6 per cent. The broadcaster revealed that average monthly video views have fallen by about 1 million year on year in […]
Increasingly, the main reason people watch on-demand TV is to avoid falling behind with the linear TV schedules, which have been attracting record viewing figures in recent years, according to research published by Thinkbox and Decipher. The ‘Tellyport’ research questioned a sample of 3,000 people in the UK and employed a mixture of quantitative and […]
Comcast has unveiled its new Xfinity TV app, which will enable Xfinity TV digital customers to watch TV shows and movies directly on the iPad either at home or on-the-go in the coming weeks. The Xfinity TV app is a TV guide and a mobile video player all in one. It enables customers to change […]
Modern Times Group (MTG) has entered into a strategic cooperation with LG Electronics. Viasat is making its Viasat OnDemand Internet pay-TV services available directly on all LG TV sets in the Nordic region enabled with NetCast functionality effective immediately. The OTT solution is available to customers with Viasat OnDemand accounts by simply connecting the TV […]
Level 3 Communications has been selected to serve as a primary content delivery network (CDN) provider for Netflix to support the company’s streaming functionality and to support storage for the entire Netflix library of content. As a result of the deal, Level 3 has accelerated plans to further invest in its CDN capacity. Level 3 […]
Accedo Broadband, provider of app stores and applications for IPTV and Connected TV, has revealed that Viasat, the leading free-TV and pay-TV operator in Scandinavia, has selected Accedo to help develop, test and launch its Viasat OnDemand application for the LG NetCast platform. Viasat OnDemand is already available for consumers to watch via the Internet […]