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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
The UK’s Competition Commission (CC) has provisionally found that Sky’s control over pay-TV movie rights in the UK is restricting competition between pay-TV providers, leading to higher prices and reduced choice and innovation for subscribers. Sky has for many years held exclusively the rights to the movies of all six major Hollywood studios in the […]