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UK home entertainment a £2.4bn industry

The latest insights into the home entertainment industry have been revealed at the BASE MESA Entertainment Summit. As over 300 guests from across the industry representing stakeholders from the UK, Europe and US, gathered at the event which brought together the BASE Category Showcase and the MESA Transforming Home Entertainment Summit under one roof. Analyst […]

September 8, 2016

Fox backs Clarkson’s DriveTribe

21st Century Fox has backed Jeremy Clarkson’s DriveTribe venture with US$6.5 million. The new digital portal will launch in November with Clarkson’s fellow presenters Richard Hammond and James May and backing from former Top Gear executive producer Andy Wilman and tech entrepreneur Ernesto Schmitt. DriveTribe is planning “the world’s digital hub for motoring”, with ‘tribes’ […]

September 7, 2016

VR headset sales flatline

Sales of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets have flatlined in the US according to figures from digital gaming platform Steam, despite stock problems no longer being an issue. Since the HTC Vive and

September 7, 2016

Akamai gets Olympics streaming boost

NBC Olympics has confirmed that it leveraged Content Delivery Networks services specialist Akamai Technologies for online video streaming, website and video delivery along with security solutions to support its record digital offering for Rio 2016, which included 3.3 billion total streaming minutes, 2.71 billion of which were live. One hundred million unique users tuned in […]

September 7, 2016

Indian operators choose Conax protection

Digital entertainment total service protection specialist Conax has confirmed that Dish TV India Limited, Asia Pacific’s largest DTH (direct-to-home) TV provider and SITI Cable have selected Conax (for Cardless content protection) as one of the key partners for their pay-TV expansion in the region. Based on the company’s flagship Conax Contego security hub, the Conax […]

September 7, 2016

Viaccess-Orca, Harmonic team for OTT SaaS/VR

Content services protection, delivery, and enhancement specialist Viaccess-Orca and video delivery infrastructure provider Harmonic have teamed up to bring two fully integrated solutions to IBC2016. At the show, a new end-to-end video software as a service (SaaS) for OTT applications, as well as a new multiview app for the virtual reality (VR) environment, will be […]

September 7, 2016

NAGRA protects KT Skylife 4K content

Content protection and multiscreen television solutions provider NAGRA has extended its content protection partnership with Korean satellite broadcaster KT Skylife to include NAGRA’s anyCAST CONNECT solution. NAGRA anyCAST CONNECT will allow the KT Skylife to secure the expansion of its 4K Ultra HD service and implement a flexible two-way content protection solution across multiple networks. […]

September 7, 2016

Analyst: VR, 4K and HDR major IBC themes

From 360-degree movie trailers to the emergence of 4K TV services from Web and telecom players, global analyst firm CCS Insight, has revealed its expectations for the TV industry and the main highlights ahead of this year’s IBC event in Amsterdam. According to Paolo Pescatore, director of multiplay and media at CCS Insight, given the […]

September 6, 2016

UKTV Britain’s fastest-growing broadcaster

Darren Childs, CEO of multi-channel programmer UKTV, has declared the service to be Britain’s fastest-growing broadcaster. Speaking at UKTV Live, its annual showcase event, at the BFI in London, Childs noted that the company had grown impacts by 40 per cent since 2010, and was home to two of the largest non-PSBs. “UKTV is now […]

September 6, 2016By Colin Mann

Prime Focus Technologies powers INsight TV 4K/UHD

Prime Focus Technologies (PFT), the technology arm of media services company Prime Focus, has gone live with its cloud-based Media ERP solution CLEAR at INsight TV, part of the Netherlands-headquartered Television, Entertainment & Reality Network (TERN). This is PFT’s first 4K implementation. INsight is all about INspirational people with INcredible stories to tell, in Ultra […]

September 6, 2016