The television industry is responsible for the proliferation of illegal content piracy and needs to lift its game to prevent it, according to Hybrid TV CEO Robbee Minicola speaking at Get Ready for Digital TV conference. Minicola said that illegal piracy is the result of consumers not getting the content they want at the times […]

About 200 reactions to the interim Digital Britain report have been published. Among highlights are Sky's call for Virgin's network to be opened up to third party services, Virgin's caution on Canvas and general skepticism on anti-piracy plans and the Digital Rights Agency. Sky says it is “increasingly anomalous” that the cable network is a […]

According to a study released by the Council for Research Excellence and funded by Nielsen, TV watching has not waned in the US despite the emergence of mobile phones, iPods, and Internet media. Researchers followed 476 people for two 14-hours days and recorded how much they used media along with other daily activities. The research […]

Owners of the controversial Swedish BitTorrent website the Pirate Bay – currently embroiled in a copyright trial in Sweden – have announced they’re going to start using VPN (virtual private network) technologies to make its users harder to track. In typical 'pirate style' the unlogged VPN service will be called IPREDator, named after a new […]

From Colin Mann in Cannes Paramount Digital Entertainment (PDE) and film production and distribution company Gaumont have announced the development of 'Section 8', an interactive Web series exclusively distributed in the US by social portal MySpace. Endemol will handle worldwide distribution, product integration and brand partnerships. Section 8 is an interactive short-form serial thriller set […]

From Colin Mann in Cannes Al Jazeera Network, the Middle East-headquartered international broadcaster, is significantly stepping-up the distribution of its feature programmes. It will be offering a range of its factual and documentary programming from Al Jazeera English, the Al Jazeera Documentary Channel and the Al Jazeera Satellite Channel. The library available from Al Jazeera […]

SecureMedia announced that is has been accepted as a member in the Open IPTV Forum, the pan-industry initiative that was established to take IPTV to the mass market. Founded in 2007, the Open IPTV Forum’s goal is to develop and promote an open, end-to-end specification for IPTV based upon existing technologies and open standards that […]

Freeview in New Zealand has welcomed two major developments that have taken place in NZ Digital Television. The first is the news yesterday that TVNZ 6 and TVNZ 7 are set to become available to all Sky TV viewers on a subscription free basis. The second development is the news that TVNZ has acquired a […]

Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has confirmed its second high definition channel in Europe with the launch in Portugal on April 6th of its general entertainment, action and adventure channel, AXN HD. The channel combines a mix of movies from the US and around the world as well as popular series such as CSI and Supernatural. […]

From Colin Mann at IPTV World Forum Marking Hulu's first UK deal, the online video service has signed with Digital Rights Group (DRG) to roll out titles from its catalogue. Hulu's US service, launched publicly in March 2008 now offers content from more than 1,200 shows, series and movie titles from more than 130 providers. […]