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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Entertainment and communications technologist Ericsson has signed a multi-year contract with MLB Network for its real time sports graphics software, PIERO. MLB Network is the ultimate television destination for baseball fans, featuring the multiple Emmy Award-winning MLB Tonight, live regular season and Postseason game telecasts, original programming, highlights, and insights and analysis from the best […]

castLabs, a digital video technology and services company, has struck a new partnership with cloud services for online video specialist provider Brightcove. castLabs is supplying its DRMtoday digital rights management (DRM) licensing technology to enable secure content streaming as part of Brightcove’s next generation media delivery platform. According to CastLabs, whether providing studio titles or […]

End-to-end video entertainment provider and #TelcoTV solution specialist Netgem has launched the Music Avenue, a multi-room music aggregation and playout service for music lovers. Forming part of Netgem’s strategy to move from connected TV services into connected entertainment, the Music Avenue is an integral component of Netgem’s range of content services, representing the first step […]

INSIDE Secure, a specialist in embedded security solutions for mobile and connected devices, is to integrate INSIDE Secure’s content protection technology into HTC’s Vive system environment, providing complete reassurance of secure content deployment. According to INSIDE Secure, the most important factor in pervasive consumer and business adoption of virtual reality is a broad community of […]

According to news service Torrent Freak, major media owners have asked many legitimate providers – including themselves in some cases – to be removed from search links due to confusion at the service companies that a takedown service. Torrent Freak reports that Vobile – which requests hundreds of thousands of takedowns a month – acting […]

Multinational cable, fibre, telecommunications, content and media company Altice has revealed its intention to strengthen further its industrial and operational strategy following its transformation into a leading transatlantic communications and media group with the closing of the acquisition of Cablevision. Altice plans to make its core strategic, operational and technical capabilities available to its subsidiaries […]

In advance of Labor Day on September 5, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has released new statistics on the film and television industry’s economic impact in all 50 US states, with the findings, shared by Julia Jenks, Vice President, Worldwide Research, indicating that in total, the film and television industry supports 1.9 million […]