SeaChange International, provider of software and hardware solutions for VOD television, has confirmed the acquisition of eventIS Group – a privately owned Netherlands-based company that provides VOD and linear broadcast software and related services to cable television and telecommunication companies primarily in Europe.

BBC Worldwide has struck a deal to make hundreds of hours of content available via the UK online video service blinkbox. Popular titles on DVD, such as Top Gear, Gavin & Stacey, Spooks and Planet Earth, will cost users £1.89 (E2.19) an episode to download from which is still finalising what it will charge for […]

Microsoft Video Player has had almost 170,000 views of in the first fortnight since it launched in the UK, says the Guardian. Microspft launched a pilot of the MSN Video Player on 3 August after the banning of Project Kangaroo by competition regulators in February. The first figures on usage show that after 11 full […]

The Sundance Channel has unveiled a video-on-demand service offering documentaries and international films endorsed by Sundance festival founder Robert Redford and often available the same day the movies hit theatres. Sundance Selects will debut with Spike Lee’s new documentary, “Passing Strange: The Movie.” The service will be available on cable TV systems owned by three […]

Sony is launching a video-on-demand service on the PlayStation3 and PlayStation Portable as it continues its fight with Microsoft's Xbox 360. The PlayStation Network Video Store will allow users in the UK, France, Germany and Spain to buy or rent movies from November. Deals have been made with movie studios including MGM, Paramount Pictures, Sony […]

Blockbuster has unveiled plans to feature the Blockbuster OnDemand movie download service in select Motorola phones, giving Motorola access to the OnDemand service and furthering Blockbuster’s digital strategy by providing its library of digital entertainment to mobile devices for the first time. Through the agreement some Motorola phones will feature an exclusive Blockbuster OnDemand application, […]

BskyB has written to the BBC Trust expressing "serious concerns" about its handling of Project Canvas. The Trust's conduct of a consultation process on Canvas "will only serve to undermine further industry confidence in its ability and inclination to act as a genuinely independent regulator of the BBC", Sky said. Since February, the Trust has […]

Arqiva is set to move into the VOD market with a deal to buy Kangaroo technology developed for the proposed joint venture between ITV, Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide. The company is said to be in the final stages of negotiations to purchase the technology which was developed for the proposed joint venture VOD service, […]

Arqiva is understood to have paid in the region of £8m (E9.3m) to buy the assets of Project Kangaroo. Arquiva also acquired Project Kangaroo assets such as the brand name See Saw, which it has the option to use for its own proposed video-on-demand service that will launch in the coming months. The remaining Kangaroo […]

Arqiva is to buy the technology behind the defunct broadband TV venture Project Kangaroo and launch a video-on-demand service of its own. The company is now talking with broadcasters and content providers to stock up for the service. Arqiva said the new video-on-demand service would appear in the coming months and feature “both free-to-air and […]