Fox Mobile Group has unveiled its long-delayed mobile video streaming service. Fox Mobile announced that the service will be called Bitbop and that it will be an on-demand video subscription service for $9.99 a month. Subscribers will be able to watch full-length content on a smartphone over WiFi and 3G. Fox Mobile Group's CMO Chris […]

Virgin Media plans to offer 3D content to customers through its on-demand platform, rather than a linear 3D channel. Virgin is currently demonstrating 3D TV at the Ideal Home Show in London. For the demo expensive ‘active’ glasses have been used which allow customers to purchase cheaper 3D-ready TVs. However, the operator claimed that its […]

From Colin Mann at IPTV World Forum in London Nokia Siemens Networks has launched a new software platform designed to allow people the freedom to watch TV on multiple devices. The platform lets operators provide live, recorded or video-on-demand TV to mobile phone, Internet-connected computer, satellite or digital terrestrial television screens. In addition, it offers […]

Inlet Technologies, an expert in solutions for digital media preparation, has partnered with international multimedia specialist Twofour Digital, to provide the first fully-automated end-to-end HD Smooth Streaming encoding and digital rights management (DRM) deployment for VOD content in the Pan-European marketplace. Inlet's automated VOD workflow management system Armada, along with Twofour Digital's delivery and publishing […]

Sky Player, Sky's online TV service, is to launch on a connected TV and a set-top box following agreements with Cello, a manufacturer of LCD TVs, and 3View maker of a hybrid DTT/IPTV set-top box. Sky Player will be available as a pay TV option on both platforms and follows an earlier deal with Fetch […]

The day after the UK Office of Fair Trading announced a consultation process that may lead to a referral of the project to the Competition Commission – a move that would delay the Canvas launch by up to a year even if it got a clean bill of health – members of the consortium have […]

The UK Office of Fair Trading is to consider a Competition Commission referral for Project Canvas, the video-on-demand service lead by the BBC. Critics including BSkyB and Virgin Media will now be able to formalise their concerns in submissions to the OFT. The outcome of a further review of the project by the BBC Trust […]

BlackArrow, a global provider of advanced advertising solutions for New Television platforms, has partnered with Fox Cable Networks to trial the BlackArrow Advanced Advertising System across the VOD content of FX, National Geographic Channel and SPEED. With the BlackArrow system, Fox Cable Networks is testing the ability to deliver addressable advertising to viewers in multiple […]

Microsoft is set to launch its UK VOD service this week. The new MSN Video Player, which has been in testing phase since last summer, features around 300 hours of programming from BBC Worldwide and All3Media. Microsoft has increased the service’s total hours of content to 1,000 in the last few months following deals with […]

Hybrid Television Services (ANZ), the exclusive licensee of TiVo products in Australia and New Zealand and creator of CASPATM On-Demand, has restructured the business to support the expansion of services. The restructuring will take Hybrid TV from being purely a TiVo licensee to a VOD and interactive service provider in its own right.