Belgacom is increasing the number of free football matches available to its TV customers. Previously customers could watch one free match from the Jupiler league per day. From the 2011-12 season, they can watch every match which Belgacom holds the rights for, including five matches each Saturday and some of the play-off matches. No additional […]
Turkish police have arrested 32 people believed to be members of hacker collective Anonymous. The group has been active in Turkey protesting against government plans to set up a national net filtering system. On 22 August, Turkey is planning to turn on a system that demands people sign up for one of four filtering packages […]
N24, a German all-news channel, will go HD on July 1st. N24 is also joining the SES Astra-backed HD+ system where its HD signals are encrypted other than for those viewers subscribing to the low-cost HD+ service. N24 is the eleventh HD+ service on SES Astra, and follows Nickelodeon and Comedy Central which both added […]
Città Digitali has become Italy’s second TV channel to broadcast in 3D on the occasion of the European Digital Television Forum being held in Lucca. The project is backed by Lucca-based channel City Television, Sisvel Technology, CSP – Innovation in ICT (a research organization of the Piedmont Region) and SIM2 Multimedia (an Italian company active […]
UKTV is strengthening its commitment to its lifestyle genre by launching Really onto Freeview. Moving to Freeview channel 20 on August 2nd, Really will still be available on Sky and Virgin Media. Replacing Dave Ja Vu, Really will sit immediately below its UKTV-stablemate, Dave on Freeview’s EPG. This move will mean that three of the […]
Motorola Mobility has confirmed that its Internet Protocol Rights Management-Home Network (IPRM-HN) technology has passed the Digital Transmission Licensing Administrator’s (DTLA) approval process as an “approved output and recording technology” for digital transmission content protection (DTCP). As interest in delivering media beyond the TV screen rapidly increases, the DTLA approval gives service providers confidence in […]
Rupert Murdoch has warned that China will encourage piracy and limit opportunities for its own movie market if it does not open up to foreign films. Delivering a speech on ‘Film Dream in the Era of Capital’ at the Shanghai International Film Festival, the News Corp. chairman praised China’s optimism, global aspirations and creativity, saying […]
New films and high quality TV dramas are becoming increasingly reliant on projected video entertainment sales revenue in order to be green-lighted for production, according to an independent survey conducted by Oxford Economics. The study, commissioned by the British Video Association, shows that video revenues account for 47 per cent of revenues of feature films […]
KidsCo, the international children’s channel, has confirmed it will begin airing on the Wananchi Group’s new DTH platform, Zuku TV, from July 1st 2011. KidsCo will be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on its basic package, direct to home, making the channel available across the whole of Kenya. KidsCo will extend […]
The Spanish police have arrested three suspected computer hackers in connection with recent cyber-attacks on Sony’s PlayStation network as well as corporate and government websites around the world. The police said that with the arrests, they had dismantled the local leadership of Anonymous, the shadowy international network of computer hackers. According to the statement, Anonymous […]