xTV, a Silicon Valley based company pioneering the new, has announced the deployment of its Connected TV and Media Management platform, featuring some of the world’s best known brands. The xTV platform enables organisations to build their own enterprise media network that organises all of the enterprise video, social & breaking news into a Real-time […]
For the next half decade, connected television is primarily a complementary, incremental, platform for existing broadcasting and content owners, according to the findings of a recent report – Connected Television in the UK and Ireland – from consultancy firm Deadline Media TV. The report’s author,
The latest Australian Multi-Screen Report, covering the second quarter of calendar 2013, shows Australians are progressively adopting new screen technologies, creating new options to view broadcast television and other video. Australians continue to spend the vast majority of their screen time with the in-home TV set. People watch an average 96 hours and 37 minutes […]
Smart or connected TVs are the most important device for an operator’s future content revenue, according to trend research from Irdeto, the specialist in Media Protection, Multiscreen and Revenue Assurance solutions. The vox-pop research, conducted among broadcast industry professionals at IBC 2013, also confirmed that many in the industry see OTT entrants as the biggest […]
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, […]