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FilmOn.TV live app for Facebook

The streaming HD TV provider, FilmOn.TV, has launched the new FilmOn.TV app allowing users to watch live TV in HD, invite their friends to join them and discuss or comment on programmes in real-time on Facebook. FilmOn.TV also offers a host of new original channels which are exclusive to FilmOn including football, music, movies, history, […]

May 25, 2012

X1 marks the spot for Comcast

US provider of entertainment, information and communications products and services Comcast has revealed that it is to launch its next-generation television experience, Xfinity TV on the X1 Platform, and a new X1 remote control app in the coming weeks. The cloud-enabled platform is designed to transform the TV into an entirely new integrated entertainment experience. […]

May 22, 2012

Quickflix unlimited for iPads

Australian home entertainment company, Quickflix, has confirmed the launch of a Quickflix App for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, available now on the App Store. The App allows Quickflix WatchNow subscribers to view unlimited movies and television shows instantly, on-demand, from their Apple devices, including premium content from the likes of Warner Bros, Sony Pictures, […]

May 22, 2012

Xstream delivers the world’s first TV app available on all Samsung Smart-TVs and Blu-Ray

As the first newspaper worldwide, Jyllands-Posten, has turned their entire newspaper, with articles and videos, into an innovative, custom built news app available on all Samsung Smart TVs. It is the Danish company, Xstream, who has developed, designed and created the world’s first Smart-TV app available on all Samsung Smart TV models and Blu-Ray players. […]

May 21, 2012

Motive in talks with Premier League clubs

Motive Television Group is in discussions with six English Premier League Football Clubs regarding the use of its Video2Go (V2G) product as a way for the football clubs to provide an enhanced experience to fans before, during, and following attendance at a match. V2G provides the ability to push content on to smartphones, iPads and […]

May 17, 2012

blinkx on Sony connected devices

blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, has announced that a blinkx app is now available on Sony Internet-enabled home entertainment devices. Consumers can now watch videos from blinkx’s extensive index of professionally produced content on a variety of customised channels. The blinkx app for Sony gives customers immediate access to blinkx’s index of premium […]

May 16, 2012

Shazam-enabled BGT ad receives 50,000 tags in a minute

Shazam-enabled advertising during ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent marked a major milestone for interactive adverts in the UK.  Around 50,000 viewers used the Shazam App to tag the Pepsi MAX and Cadbury ads in just 60 seconds of airtime during special ad breaks in Saturday’s final. Fans of the show who had Shazam on their smartphones […]

May 15, 2012

BBC sports app for PS3

Sony has signed a deal to bring a new BBC Sport app to the Sony Entertainment Network, with coverage starting in time for next month’s Wimbledon tennis tournament. The app will be available on both PlayStation 3 and Bravia televisions. According to Sony the new app will provide ‘exciting new television content over and above […]

May 15, 2012By Nik Roseveare

ITV confirms Shazam-enabled ads for BGT final

UK’s ITV and Shazam, the media discovery company, have confirmed the UK’s first Shazam-enabled ads will feature in the Britain’s Got Talent Final on Saturday 12th May. Following on from the partnership announced last month, which saw ITV become the exclusive UK distributor for Shazam functionality in UK broadcast advertising, ITV has signed up Pepsi […]

May 10, 2012

Orange TVcheck app for UK

Orange’s new social TV app, TVcheck, is now available to download from the UK Apple App Store for iPhones. The free app provides a new way to enhance the live TV experience with social and gaming tools. The app works with 25 free-to-air channels in the UK, including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel […]

May 10, 2012