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Wyplay offers YouTube app

Wyplay, a specialist in TV-centric operator software solutions, has integrated the “YouTube on TV” application into its client middleware and is now deploying it with its Vodafone customers. YouTube has developed a free application for the TV that lets users watch YouTube videos on the big screen, in up to 720p HD video quality, with […]

August 31, 2011

Top Gear on Facebook

BBC World Wide has developed a video-on-demand app for Facebook that will allow users of the website to rent a limited number of Top Gear episodes using Facebook Credits. The corporation is initially offering three episodes for rent – at a cost of 15 Facebook Credits each, the equivalent of 93p. Once rented, episodes will […]

August 23, 2011

India Dish TV CAM

Dish TV, India’s largest direct-to-home operator, is set to launch Conditional Access Module (CAM), that will enable consumers with set-top boxes of other DTH service providers to switch to Dish TV’s feed of television channels.   The product, branded as Dish Freedom, is priced at Rs 990, which includes an annual subscription of 95 channels. […]

August 23, 2011

Fox’s Hulu delay doubles illegal downloads

If you restrict legal access to your content does that increase piracy? Yes, says TorrentFreak revealing that since Fox Network restricted its shows to an eight-day catch up on Hulu and Fox.com, illegal downloads of those shows has more than doubled. The torrent news Web site tracked several popular Fox shows–including Hell’s Kitchen and MasterChef–on […]

August 23, 2011

Movielocker cuts prices

The platform for online video selling Movielocker has revised its old service plans. Instead of three previous plans, Movielocker now introduces four plans, each having benefits for a certain range of users. Each plan allows users to place free or donation videos.     In the Free plan the amount of paid video has been […]

August 22, 2011

Google: “We need TV”

Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt will tell the audience at the Edinburgh TV Festival this week that “Google needs you” according to The Guardian. In the annual MacTaggart lecture Schmidt is expected to say Google wants to help the industry and draw a line under a history of fraught legal actions with studios and broadcasters over […]

August 22, 2011

Pakistan: $4bn broadcasting market

The electronic media has emerged as one of the fastest-growing and most competitive sectors in Pakistan, according to the Chairman of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory (PEMRA). Presenting the watchdog’s report for the year 2010-11 to President Asif Ali Zardari, Dr Abdul Jabbar advised that PEMRA, by the end of the 2010-11 financial year, had […]

August 22, 2011By Colin Mann

The Big Lebowski friends with Facebook

Universal Pictures has confirmed that cult movie The Big Lebowski is available for rent on the Facebook social network. A 48-hour rental window can be set up for 30 Facebook credits or $3. The movie is only available to consumers in the United States. As an R-rated film, it can only be rented by Facebook […]

August 22, 2011By Colin Mann

Nielsen: 10 Android apps account for 43% of all usage

Ten Android apps account for nearly half of all usage, while most Android users spend close to an hour on apps and the web each day, according to a report by market research firm Nielsen. The top ten apps took up 43 per cent of user’s time, and the top 50 attracted 61 per cent, […]

August 19, 2011

Vodafone Germany adds 4 MTV channels

Vodafone Germany has added to its IPTV content after inking a new distribution agreement with MTV Networks for Nickelodeon HD, Comedy Central HD, MTV and Nick Jr. The IPTV platform already carries Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and music channel Viva. Now MTV and Nick Jr have been added to the IPTV service, whilst Nickelodeon and Comedy […]

August 19, 2011