The BBC has launched iPlayer on Microsoft’s Xbox Live platform with an interface to tie in to Kinect motion control. All the broadcaster’s TV catch-up content will made available free of charge to all Xbox console owners. Other entertainment apps, including Channel 4 and 5’s equivalent catch-up players, are only available for the console’s Gold […]
The UK’s largest independent producer is set to shake up the video-on-demand market by allowing viewers to bypass services such as LoveFilm and Netflix and catch hit shows via its TV app. All3Media, producer shows such as Skins, Shameless. The Only Way is Essex and Peep Show, has struck a deal to launch a VoD […]
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics has revealed that it will focus on smart and 3D TV sales in the Middle East in order to strengthen its dominant presence in the large emerging market. The company said it aims to aggressively market its latest high-end TV sets and expand cooperative tie-ups with content suppliers to […]
Comigo, an Israel-based company, has announced the introduction of a feature-rich Smart TV platform that will considerably enhance the TV experience by uniquely extending viewing across all types of handheld devices, opening up revolutionary personalisation and interactive socialisation capabilities. Comigo’s advanced Smart TV platform includes applications for Smartphones and Tablets (Android and iOS based), an […]
BBC Director-General Mark Thompson has confirmed that the corporation intends to offer a download service of archive content over and above the seven-day catch-up service available via iPlayer. Addressing the Royal Television Society in London, Thompson noted that after the seven day public service window, a large proportion of what the BBC makes and broadcast […]
The European Commission is to produce a policy paper on Connected TV as part of its efforts to get every European digital and stimulate a vibrant market in ultrafast broadband. Delivering a keynote address at the Cable Congress in Brussels, Neelie Kroes Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, said that broadband […]
As the BBC prepares a big push for its online coverage of this summer’s Olympic games, Ralph Rivera, the BBC’s director of future media, says this year could be pivotal for TV’s next evolution. “Our aspiration is that 2012 will do for digital and connected televisions what the coronation did for TV,” he told the […]
Suggesting that connected TVs are “punching below their weight,” in terms of iPlayer requests, Daniel Danker, General Manager, iPlayer at the BBC has called on consumer electronics manufacturers to simplify such devices. “If connected TV is going to be mainstream, you have to go back to basics,” he told delegates at the DTG Summit 2012 […]
Connect TV, a broadband-supplied portfolio of TV channels, launches this weekend to UK viewers with Freeview HD or Smart TV functionality, and are broadband-enabled. Connect TV has embraced MHEG functionality and uses a batch of dedicated channel numbers on the EPG. Some of the TV services are already generating around 200,000 streams a month. CEO […]
French media regulator CSA has commissioned a study on the development of connected TV. Emmanuel Gabla, a CSA board member, said that though only about 5 per cent of French homes had a connected TV now the regulator believed connected TV would become common in the future. The CSA is concerned the entry of new […]