Blinkbox has launched its first movie streaming service for the Sony PlayStation 3 in the UK. Console owners can stream up to 6,000 movie and TV titles. The deal is part of a wider campaign to establish Blinkbox as the leading provider of blockbuster movies in web-enabled homes. It has also overhauled its website so […]
Cisco has announced that French cable service provider Numericable is building one of the world’s first HD 3D VOD service based on the Cisco Content Delivery System platform. The company originally deployed the platform to support VOD, catch-up TV and user-generated content services. The award-winning Cisco Content Delivery System provides Numericable with the flexibility and […]
Virgin Media had 200 million views of on demand TV content in the first three months of 2010. Channel 4's on demand service, 4oD, enjoyed a record-breaking three months with nearly 19 million views of catch up content during Q1 2010. BBC iPlayer saw over 50 million views during Q1 2010. There is no news […]
New figures show that people in the UK watched 30 hours of linear TV a week during the first quarter of 2010, an increase of 2 hours, 29 minutes on the same period last year with growth seen across every age group. The figures from The Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) and published in Thinkbox's […]
Virgin Media is launching an online movie service provided by FilmFlex, the Sony-Disney JV that operates Virgin's premium on demand service. Movies can be streamed directly to PCs and will be of sufficient quality for users to also watch on their TV with a suitable connection. "Virgin Media already offers the UK's leading movies on […]
Infonetics Research has released the fourth quarter editions of two video-related market share and forecast reports: Video Infrastructure and Subscribers and Set-Top Boxes and Subscribers. “In the ongoing battle between cable and telco IPTV operators, both continue to spend furiously to add video-on-demand and streaming content server capacity to support the rollout of on-demand HD […]
Warner Bros is launching its on-demand WarnerTV branded service for the first time ever in Korea via an agreement with KT’s IPTV provider QOOK TV. WarnerTV will launch as a VOD service within QOOK TV at no extra charge for consumers who purchase QOOK TV’s subscription video-on-demand programming package. Each week, WarnerTV will deliver new […]
Finland’s first Cable Video-on-Demand service will be launched in the spring of 2010. Turku Cable TV is starting VOD service test distribution in its cable TV network in the Turku area in April. The VOD service runs on the Teleste-developed MyCast application platform.
HITS, a business unit of the Comcast Media Centre that provides content management and distribution solutions for MSOs, and Arris have announced that Cass Cable TV, Mediastream, MTC (Margaretville Telephone Company) and Plantation Cable have selected VOD In a Box to deliver VOD to their subscribers. Jointly offered by HITS and Arris, VOD In a […]
UK video-on-demand providers must pay a combined £375,000 (E415,000) to two bodies that will regulate their industry. The Association for Television On Demand (ATVOD) which has been confirmed by Ofcom to co-regulate, along with it, the VOD sector, says running costs for December 2009 to March 2011 are £426,388, and that the VOD providers themselves […]