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R6 4K Hisense Roku TV debuts

Premium television technology specialist Hisense has confirmed the availability of its R6 4K Hisense Roku TV Series in the United States. Building on the success of the Hisense H4 FHD Roku TV series, the R6 Series displays premium 4K picture quality and access to 500,000 movies and TV episodes through 5,000 channels made available by […]

September 21, 2017

Amazon Prime Video acquires Fox shows

Amazon has agreed a deal with 20th Century Fox to bring the TV adaptation of The Exorcist and the Emmy Award winning series This Is Us to its Prime Video streaming service. This deal covers more than 200 territories. “This Is Us is one of the best new TV series, beloved by viewers and acclaimed […]

September 19, 2017

Study: Mobile viewing drives better experience demand

Digital video consumption is viral and, according to a new study released by IBM and IBC, with more than half of the 21,000 consumers surveyed using mobiles every day to watch streaming videos, and that number is expected to grow 45 per cent in the next three years. Today, the

September 15, 2017Colin Mann @ IBC

Harmonic: Well-placed for OTT boom

Video delivery technology and services specialist Harmonic has declared itself well- placed to work with its broadcaster customers seeking to offer OTT services in addition to their linear services. Outlining the company’s product and service launches at a pre-IBC briefing, Andy Warman, Director of Market Development, suggested that Harmonic was leading the OTT charge, in […]

September 15, 2017Colin Mann @ IBC

Apple TV 4K launched

Amid the fanfare of the release of updated iPhones, Apple’s launch event also included the introduction of the new Apple TV 4K designed to deliver what the tech giant calls “a stunning cinematic experience at home”. With Apple TV 4K, viewers can enjoy a growing selection of 4K HDR movies on iTunes. iTunes users will […]

September 13, 2017By Colin Mann

Netflix CFO defends $20bn content spend

Despite a debt load in excess of $20 billion, Netflix CFO David Wells has signalled that spending on big budget productions like House of Cards, and Marvel’s The Defenders has only just begun. “It’s going to be that way for many years to come,” he said at Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia media conference. “And the more […]

September 13, 2017

Analysts: SVoD will upset European TV status quo

A major 150-page research report from equity analysts at investment bank Exane/BNP-Paribas does not make good reading for Europe’s traditional FTA broadcasters, both commercial and public and even for established pay-TV operators. The study says that many broadcasters believe that European TV is different from those in the US, and that there is no way […]

September 12, 2017By Chris Forrester

Sky Sports wins live EFL rights

Sky Sports says it has strengthened its position as the home of English football with a new deal to show live coverage of the EFL  – which covers the second, third and fourth tiers of the professional game – until 2024, offering Sky customers more matches and more ways to watch than ever before. The […]

September 12, 2017

Sky launches Spanish OTT service

As anticipated, Sky has launched an OTT TV streaming service in Spain, a market where it doesn’t have a DTH presence, offering what it describes as “great entertainment and contract-free viewing” to customers to watch on all their devices. The new service will offer the best of Spanish pay TV channels, TV series and on-demand […]

September 11, 2017

Metrics boost for fraudulent video monitoring

Big data and business intelligence online media services specialist NPAW (Nice People At Work) has revealed overlapping metrics built into its YOUBORA Infinity platform to help subscription-based video-on-demand services (SVoD) identify multiple, simultaneous uses from a single user account. Fraud detection is part of YOUBORA Infinity’s module, SmartUsers, to help customers predict churn, identify customer […]

September 8, 2017By Colin Mann