Two suppliers of Kodi-type illegal devices have each been jailed for four and half years in Newcastle Crown Court in the northwest of England after being found guilty of conspiracy to defraud. John Dodds and Jason Richards sold hundreds of devices that enabled their customers to view Premier League football via unauthorised access to Sky […]
Streaming platform and device specialist Roku has confirmed that the Sanyo brand is now part of the Roku TV licensing programme. Funai Corporation – the exclusive licensee for Sanyo consumer televisions and home video products in North America – expects to ship the first Sanyo Roku TVs in Canada this quarter. “The Roku operating system […]
Despite pre-bout warnings from two UK IP protection bodies of the risks associated with illegal streaming ahead of the March 31st fight between Anthony Joshua and Joseph Parker, digital platform security specialist Irdeto has identified 339 streams that illegally redistributed the fight. Many of these lower quality, illegal streams put consumers at risk of a […]
According to Dataxis research, the number of pay-TV subscribers in Asia owning a 4K set top box reached 53.6 million at the end of 2017. As at date, more than 30 pay-TV operators have launched 4K set-top-boxes in Asia. The South Korean IPTV operators, Korea Telecom, LGU Plus, SK Broadband and Tbroad were the first […]
In a move designed to boost the take-up of fibre and pay-TV services across Italy, Sky Italia and fibre optic infrastructure provider Open Fiber have agreed a long-term deal to launch a fibre-only service from summer 2019. This fibre-only service will be available alongside Sky’s existing services. The deal will give Sky access to Open […]
One of the UK’s leading intellectual property (IP) protection organisations has joined forces with the national police unit which leads the response to tackling IP crime to warn users of the risks of illegal streaming ahead of the March 31st fight between Anthony Joshua and Joseph Parker. UK intellectual property protection organisation FACT (Federation Against […]
As part of its ongoing commitment to deliver better broadband to Australians, multiplay telco Vodafone is partnering with Netflix and launching Vodafone TV, its first-ever streaming media device. Starting immediately until June30th, Vodafone will offer customers a complimentary pre-paid 12-month standard subscription to the Netflix service on two of its 24-month nbn (national broadband network) […]
EKT, a company specialising in the design and manufacture of STB solutions and Quadrille, an independent software vendor for content delivery over broadcast networks, have announced the completion of the integration of the Quadrille MStore client into the EKT STB software stack. The integration of the Quadrille MStore client allows any of EKT’s customers on […]
Telefónica’s pay-TV platform Movistar Plus will quadruple the picture quality of its TV over the coming days with the launch of its new 4K STB. The new device will allow up to 4,000 pixels in horizontal resolution with UHD quality equipped with a HDR system. The launch is seen as a definitive boost to the […]
A long-running case involving the sale of illegal TV boxes online has seen the offender ordered to pay back almost £5,000 (€5,722). Mark Hindley, of Lymm, Cheshire, in the northwest of England, was arrested in September 2015 on suspicion of selling illegal TV devices. Hindley appeared in court in 20177 after he started selling the […]