A City of London Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) operation has led to the arrest of three people who are suspected to have orchestrated the distribution and transmission of thousands of illegally modified TV set-top boxes to people worldwide. Detectives from PIPCU executed a series of dawn raids on 10 August, at a business […]
Globosat, the satellite arm of Brazilian media giant Group Globo, is offering around 100 hours of Olympics coverage in Virtual Reality, viewable on a Samsung ‘Gear’ VR headset. Globosat will supply the footage via its SporTV VR service to compatible Galaxy smartphones. Already available are the Opening Ceremony and during the Games clips will be […]
travelXP is a Mumbai-based documentary broadcaster and programme-maker. It is already supplying some of its travelogues and factual documentaries in UHD. It is due to start transmitting (in HD for the time being) in HD in a partnership with Telekom Austria. With its direct2home platform, Telekom Austria Group will act as technical contributor for the […]
Akamai has already delivered more video traffic for Rio than whole London games in 2012. In a statement, the CDN specialist said: “On Monday [August 8th], during the third day of Rio, Akamai had already exceeded the total amount of video data that it delivered for all 17 days of London in 2012.” Akamai has […]
The head of the FX channel, John Landgraf, speaking at a Television Critics Association event hosted by FX on August 9th, said that of some 500 original scripted series that the channel’s research department was aware of, by FX’s count Netflix has 71 of those series in its planning, and this excludes foreign language productions. […]
US OTT TV service Sling TV has launched NFL Network and NFL RedZone on its live and on-demand Internet TV service. All Sling Blue customers will automatically receive NFL Network, while NFL RedZone is available to Sling Blue customers as part of the ‘Sports Extra’ add-on pack for an additional $5 per month. “The addition […]
Premium content delivery specialist Vubiquity has announced a significant multi-year extension to its wholesale content supply chain contract with Sky. The exclusive deal means Vubiquity will ensure Sky’s content is managed and delivered promptly to the catch-up and on-demand services of Sky’s wholesale customers in the UK such as Virgin Media, TalkTalk and BT. Vubiquity […]
The Brazilian time zone is not helping TV ratings for the Olympic Games. Interest may build as the events unfold, but so far, UK audiences are down almost one third when compared with the London Games in 2012 (linear viewing is 24.6 million cumulatively from the Opening Ceremony through to 2am Monday morning, whilst for […]
In its latest effort to combat piracy further, US pay-TV operator DISH has filed a lawsuit against the makers of the Loolbox streaming device, which unlawfully retransmits numerous Arabic TV channels. The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas and names Defendants Lool Tech Co., Limited and Shenzhen […]
The top 3 apps used near the Olympics opening ceremony were all Facebook properties – Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. This proves that at least in Brazil, when people share, Facebook is the big winner. Facebook owned over 46 per cent of the total consumption around the 2016 Olympic opening ceremony, according to stats from Procera […]