MOVL has announced the release of their patented MOVL Connect Platform at the Game Developers Conference Online in Texas. The MOVL Connect Platform gives developers the tools necessary to create apps that can link SmartTVs and mobile devices. The platform allows various devices to communicate in a shared experience and supports the creation of multi-user, […]
Virgin Media has confirmed that Sky Anytime will be launched on Virgin Media VoD. Virgin Media TV customers now have access to On Demand content from a range of Sky channels in line with their underlying subscriptions, with the content bundled into their existing TV package at no extra cost. Customers subscribed to the Sky […]
Liverpool’s managing director, Ian Ayre has said that the football club is interested in negotiating their own overseas television rights deal and moving away from the existing Premier League agreement. The 20 Premier League teams currently command a deal worth £1.4 billion for their overseas broadcast rights to 2013. Liverpool are not happy at having […]
ProSiebenSat.1 is signing an extensive VoD rights agreement for maxdome with Disney Germany. The cooperative arrangement will add over 500 titles to the portfolio of Germany´s largest online video rental service. The agreement includes kids and family programming and feature films which will be made available through maxdome both on a transactional basis and within […]
Australian telco industry trade group Communications Alliance has applied to participate in the copyright case between iiNet and the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) , with the anticipation that an industry-led solution to content piracy online can be reached by early 2012. AFACT, on behalf of a number of big movie studios, took […]
TV2, Norway’s largest commercial broadcaster, on October 11th supplied Norway’s first-ever live national 3D transmission. The 3D broadcast was of the Norway vs Cyprus UEFA football international to Canal Digital’s pay-TV operation. The game, from Norway’s national football stadium Ullevaal in Oslo saw the home team win 3-1. TV2 used a T-VIPS JPEG2000 Gateway unit […]
FOX Soccer has renewed exclusive media rights with The Football Association (FA), the governing body of football in England, for six more years through the 2017-18 soccer season. The multi-platform deal grants FOX exclusive rights to all FA content in all languages for the US and Caribbean territories, including the FA Cup tournament, England’s national […]
Sainsbury’s is spending £1 million (€1.15m) to buy Global Media Vault, a white-label digital entertainment distribution vendor, to power its launch in to online content retailing. The UK supermarket says the acquisition will be used to add digital content to Sainsbury’s Entertainment, the site it launched in November 2010 to sell CDs, DVDs and books. […]
Mukesh Ambani, India’s wealthiest man, is set to sign a deal with Walt Disney’s Indian subsidiary that will provide his Reliance Industries with the content for its next generation of mobile telecoms. The deal, expected to be sealed in the coming weeks, is between Reliance and UTV, one of Bollywood’s largest entertainment groups, which Disney […]
The Simpsons has been saved from the axe at the 11th hour. The cast have agreed to take a pay cut, meaning the show will go on being made until at least 2014. James L Brooks, the show’s executive producer, wrote on Twitter that he was “crying animated tears of joy”. The Simpsons has seen […]