Speaking at the Connectivity Conference at MIPTV in Cannes, Vivendi Mobile Entertainment CEO Cèdric Ponsot said “there’s a lot of fear around how connected TVs will affect existing businesses and broadcasters,” but he urged people to meet it head on. He said content creators must not hold back from increasing syndication and distribution of content […]
All BT Vision subscribers will be able to access the BBC iPlayer service via their TVs by June says iPlayer product manager Gideon Summerfield. Recently the BBC has released a version of the player for Freeview HD boxes that conform to the D-Book 6.2.1 specification powered by MHEG-5 middleware. The BBC has also certified the […]
Hulu’s chief executive Jason Kilar has confirmed figures first released at IP&TV World Forum stating Hulu+ will have over a million subs by year end. Kilar also reiterated that the company is on track to approach $500 million in revenue in 2011, up from $263 million in 2010. Its first-quarter revenue grew 90 per cent […]
D-Book 7, the detailed interoperability specification for digital terrestrial television with extended Connected TV functionality, is now available from the UK’s the Digital Television Group website. D-Book 7 is the product of 18 months of industry collaboration between manufacturers, service providers and technology companies. The seventh edition builds on previous editions of the D-Book and provides an […]
Panasonic has confirmed the activation of professional sports apps for baseball and basketball on its 2011 line of Vira Connect-enabled HDTVs. The planned addition of interactive sports apps including professional baseball, basketball, hockey and football was initially announced in January at the International Consumer Electronics Show. Viera Connect, a significant enhancement of Panasonic’s connected IPTV […]
Amino Technologies has secured a follow-on order to provide its hybrid/OTT technology to support Telecom Italia’s deployment of its Cubovision all-in-one multimedia broadband service. Launched in December 2010, Cubovision offers home TV access to a range of digital terrestrial TV channels, leading web TV sources, and pay-per-view films as well as personal content such as […]
Espial, a specialist in On-Demand TV solutions, has confirmed that Hitachi is shipping their latest connected TV models into the Japanese market powered by the Espial TV Browser. Hitachi has incorporated the Espial TV Browser which is included in the following Connected TV models shipped to only Japanese market: Hitachi P42-XP07(PDP), P46-XP07(PDP), P50-XP07(PDP), L32-XP07(LCD), L37-XP07(LCD), […]
Motorola Mobility has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Swedish IPTV software provider Dreampark. The acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter of 2011. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Dreampark’s software portfolio maximises operator flexibility and performance by taking advantage of the powers of open standards, such as HTML and scalable […]
Ahead of this year’s MIPTV in Cannes early April, online TV broadcast platform FilmOn.com is finalising several major deals aimed at consolidating the company’s position as a platform streaming both existing TV stations and brand new channels created specifically for the platform. The online entertainment portal, which offers a service dubbed ‘virtual live cable television’ […]
EchoStar Europe have unveilled their SlingLoaded HDS-600RS, a HD digital video recorder (DVR) to combine Freesat+ features with Sling Media’s place-shifting ability, enabling TV anywhere, on all popular smartphones and tablets. The SlingLoaded feature enables users to watch and manage their live and recorded TV remotely anytime, anywhere, via 3G or Wi-Fi, with no additional […]