Sky insists that it hasn’t given up on 3D, even after axing its Sky 3D channel earlier this year. TrustedReviews asked Sky Executive Kathryn Lacey whether Sky had overestimated customer interest in technology. “It’s not that 3D is dead for us, we’ve still got all of our 3D content available on On Demand,” she answered. […]
A convicted software pirate has been handed an unusual punishment by a Czech court. The man, named in the press only as Jakub F, will be spared having to pay a heavy fine – as long as a film denouncing piracy he was ordered to make gets 200,000 views. He came to the out-of-court settlement […]
Rugby League will reach more fans than ever before – both in Australia and globally – under a massive new NRL broadcast deal. The ARL Commission, Nine Network, News Corp Australia, Fox Sports, and Telstra have formed a partnership to provide free to air television, pay television and mobile coverage of Rugby League for five […]
French sports newspaper L’Equipe is reporting that Canal Plus has lost its TV rights to air English Premier League football matches. The rights have been picked up, says the report, by multinational telco and cable operator Altice. L’Equipe says Altice’s new rights kick in from the autumn of 2016, and will run for 3 years. […]
Global communications provider Tata Communications has completed another successful proof of concept with Formula One Management during a recent Grand Prix. The new technology test delivered a live trackside feed from the track during the September Singapore Grand Prix to Formula One Management’s Technical HQ in Biggin Hill, UK – with no time lag between […]
Independent media services and post-production house TVT has launched its media management platform ContentSelect. The software, developed by the TVT team, is a complete orchestration toolset that delivers transmission-ready content for linear TV and video on demand (VoD). The cloud-based platform efficiently manages media operations, streamlines workflows and ensures content is edited, packaged and delivered […]
A Federal Court judge in New York has granted a permanent injunction and final judgment in the Motion Picture Association of America member companies’ lawsuit against the operators of the MovieTube ring of websites, shutting down the sites, awarding the plaintiffs $10.5 million in damages and transferring the domains to the plaintiffs. “The MPAA’s member […]
TiVo has published the results from its analysis of more than 156,000 late-night show viewers, revealing that 74 per cent of viewers have followed their favourite host to that host’s new late-night show instead of continuing to watch their previous favourite show. With iconic hosts, including Jay Leno and David Letterman, leaving the late-night scene […]
Channel Master, a US provider of alternative TV solutions, has added Vibrant TV Network to its streaming platform. Headquartered in Chicago, the newly-introduced Vibrant TV is America’s television window on the world offering a mix of entertainment from around the world in English. “We are excited to bring Vibrant TV to Channel Master audiences and […]
Automated playout specialist, BroadStream Solutions, is providing more than 20 OASYS playout channels to Hong Kong-based now TV, which uses advanced IPTV technology to deliver content to its customers. now TV was looking for a channel-in-a-box (CiaB) solution to replace its traditional master control playout system in time for the new playout services. “The OASYS […]