ESPN Player, the live and on-demand sports streaming service, is now available on Samsung Smart TVs across the UK and Europe, and will launch on LG Smart TV’s in the near future. Sports fans with Samsung Smart TVs are now able to download the free ESPN Player App directly onto their TV’s from Samsung Apps. […]
The number of TV sets connected to the Internet will reach 759 million by 2018 for 40 countries covered in the Connected TV Forecasts report from Digital TV Research, up from 115 million at end-2010 and the 307 million expected at end-2013. This translates to 26.8 per cent of global TV sets by 2018, up […]
Cloud computing platform NPTV has been formally launched with the aim of making broadcast television truly interactive following a highly successful demonstration of the technology at IBC 2013. NPTV will offer TV-as-a-service on a platform that renders multi-sourced video in real-time, with the ability to deliver interactive video to a range of devices, including set-top […]
Emerging Insider Communications, a boutique public relations and marketing firm launching the TV industry’s first comprehensive multi-discipline Think Tank to address disruptions, innovations and new methodologies across television, advertising, and the entertainment content landscape. Emerging Insider is bringing together a range of professionals across non-traditional disciplines including media psychologists and research sociologists to pair with […]
Amazon’s LOVEFiLM has announced the arrival of its new and improved LOVEFiLM Instant streaming application on LG Smart TVs in the UK and Germany. The enriched app allows LG Smart TV owners to find content easier than ever before with an improved search function and recommendation engine, navigate more efficiently with an optimised user interface, […]
More than 8 billion Internet-connected video devices will be installed worldwide in 2017, exceeding the population of the planet, according to research from the Broadband Technology Service at IHS. The installed base of video-enabled devices that are connected to the Internet — a category that includes diverse product such as tablets, smart TVs, games consoles, […]
OTT content, video delivered on connected devices via the Internet – including services such as YouTube and Netflix, is the most prominent way of accessing video content among 18-34 year-olds with connected TVs, according to the new Connected Intelligence Applications and Convergence Report from The NPD Group. Three quarters (75 per cent) use their connected […]
Cloud-based TV operator Magine has secured agreements with leading international TV manufacturers: LG Electronics, Panasonic, and TP Vision (for Philips TV). The Magine app will be available on all Smart TVs sold by these manufacturers in a number of key European territories. The availability of the Magine app on these Smart TV manufacturer platforms gives […]
UK telco BT’s Openreach infrastructure business has decorated 400 of its vans with liveries designed to drive awareness of both the availability of fibre and the link between superfast broadband and the next generation of home entertainment. The maxi vans, which are being driven by hundreds of recently recruited Openreach apprentices and engineers, are adorned […]
The BFI (British Film Institute) has unveiled the BFI Player, a brand new video-on-demand platform aimed at the millions that enjoy independent and specialised film and who will now get the full BFI experience, wherever they live. Available nationwide from October 9th, the BFI Player will support the UK’s film industry by offering new distribution […]