DataCash, a MasterCard company, is partnering with Smart TV app development consultancy, TV App Agency, to deliver Smart TV payment solutions. The partnership will see DataCash integrate its payment gateway into TV App Agency’s ‘TV App Engine’, offering a new way for brands and app developers to accept payments through their applications. DataCash’s payment gateway […]
Opera Software and LED TV provider Hisense have announced that the Opera TV Store has now launched on selected models of Hisense Smart TVs, extending the partnership between Opera and Hisense and bringing exciting new apps to TV viewers. Hisense, which is already using the Opera Devices Software Development Kit to power their entertainment portal, […]
The Spanish public broadcaster TVE is launching a VoD service using the HbbTV standard. The service, branded Boton Rojo (“red button”), distributes over 90,000 hours of content (news, sports, children programming) combining the TVE’s website content with some extra content. To gain access to the service, users will have to press a red button on […]
Philips Smart TV platform has been expanded further using cloud-based services including Cloud TV and Cloud Explorer. Cloud TV delivers hundreds of TV channels to Philips Smart TVs streamed via the cloud. Cloud Explorer allows users to view their videos and photos stored with established and trusted cloud-storage providers. The new cloud-enabled services are available […]
Industry grouping the Smart TV Alliance has unveiled the next step in its evolution with the launch of a Developer Support Program, enabling application developers to submit Smart TV applications to a single integrated QA process to port applications across Alliance compliant Smart TVs. The Alliance is also releasing a new software development kit (SDK […]
Fans flocking to BBC Sport’s digital coverage of the football transfer deadline day (September 2nd) have driven record digital traffic for BBC Sport. As audiences followed the latest rumours and signings throughout the day across four screens – PCs, tablets, mobiles and connected TVs – BBC Sport online saw the highest number of global daily […]
Canadian digital movie service CinemaNow has unveiled its UltraViolet disc-to-digital service allowing users to take their physical DVDs, convert them to a digital format in the convenience of their home, and watch them on CinemaNow, which is available through more than 1,000 connected devices. “Today is a significant day for the movie industry in Canada […]
Adconion Media Group’s, multiscreen and video brand advertising platform smartclip, has published the results of a study into the impact of Smart TV advertising in collaboration with LG Electronics. As recent research reveals that global Smart TV shipments reached 12.7 million units in Q1 2013, the appetite for the device is growing amongst consumers which […]
Investment specialists Morningstar did not pull any punches in a note to clients on August 30th, saying that the UK market has overreacted in its somewhat negative view of BSkyB over the launch of the rival BT Sport pay-platform, and that “[BSkyB’s] sports content remains far superior to that of BT. BSkyB also dominates content […]
Cognitive Networks, a provider of real-time data services that power Enhanced TV on Smart TVs, has revealed tha LG Electronics will be the first to integrate Cognitive Networks’ real-time data service on its Smart TV platform, enabling a more robust “Enhanced TV” experience for consumers. Enhanced TV allows viewers to run applications that augment the […]