Acer is giving its customers unlimited access to live action from the Olympic Games thanks to a partnership with official broadcaster, Eurosport. Customers who purchase the new Olympic Games Editions of the Iconia tablets and Aspire notebooks before and during the London 2012 Olympic Games will be given a trial access to the Eurosport Player. […]
Live streaming of Rupert and James Murdoch giving evidence at the Leveson inquiry this week reached 2,336,367 people across 215 countries. The ITN Productions live stream was delivered by Rightster across ITN’s network of publishers sites including Mail Online, Guardian.co.uk, ITN.co.uk and Facebook. The peak viewing time on Wednesday 25th April, the first day of […]
Belgacom has confirmed it will extend its TV Everywhere from May 1st. Three new channels – VT4, VIJFtv and Ketnet – will bring the total available to 24, The service, branded TV Overal, is available over Wi-Fi at home and outdoors through the FON network or through 3G (with one free hour per month). In […]
The US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation is holding a full committee hearing April 24 on ‘The Emergence of Online Video: Is It The Future?’. The hearing will consider the future of online video. It will explore the migration of viewing from traditional television to Internet and broadband-enabled video content. It will examine […]
Ofcom has recommended that the UK’s Competition Commission maintain its original stance, which provisionally found that Sky’s control over pay-TV movie rights in was restricting competition between pay-TV providers, leading to higher prices and reduced choice and innovation for subscribers. Ofcom contends that the arrival of video-on-demand services such as Netflix and LOVEFiLM has not […]
Broadcasting network NBC is sending 1,600 engineers and technicians to the London Olympic Games. The end result will be that viewers in the US, and this includes new owner Comcast’s cable subscribers, will be able to access broadband live video from all 32 sporting Olympic locations. Users will be able to access all 302 live […]
BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield, writing for the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival’s Future of Film blog, has suggested that forcing consumers to attend/pay for a movie in a theatre for the first three-four months of a film’s lifespan is increasingly archaic, with advances in display technology meaning the stage is set for the ‘home’ to become […]
Google has struck a deal with MGM to add more than 600 titles for rent to YouTube and Google Play users in the US and Canada. MGM joins five of the six major studios and over ten independent movie studios, currently offering movies for rent on YouTube and Google Play. Noting a recent IHS Screen […]
Hot on the heels of securing the rights to an iconic sporting event – the Boat Race – the BBC has confirmed the Global BBC iPlayer has secured the rights to two more iconic sporting events from the UK – the Grand National horserace and the London Marathon. In April 2012, coverage of both will […]
Netflix members in the UK, Ireland and Latin America are now able to watch instantly unlimited TV programmes and films on their Windows Phones. The online entertainment subscription service has released an updated, international version of the Netflix App for Windows Phone, significantly increasing the number of devices supported by Netflix in the territories. “With […]