Australian pay-TV provider Foxtel has confirmed that Telstra BigPond broadband customers will not be charged for any data when using Foxtel on Xbox 360, and six BigPond TV channels are to be added to the service. This means all video content will be unmetered for Telstra BigPond customers when viewing the Foxtel on Xbox 360 […]
blinkx has confirmed that a blinkx app is now available on Roku, the Internet TV platform. The app can be found in Roku’s Channel Store and allows customers to seamlessly search, discover and watch high quality videos from blinkx’s extensive index of professionally produced content. “Roku recently hit more than 15 million channel downloads, in […]
Berit Svendsen, CEO of content protection specialist Conax, has revealed that the company’s strategy is more focused on introducing products to market that support the OTT challenge than specifically serving IPTV as a platform. With a strong client base in satellite, digital terrestrial and cable, Conax only has sister company Telenor Nordic deploying its content […]
emuse and ES3 have announced the establishment of an exclusive partnership that will see emuse’s Raven Advanced Advertising System pre-integrated into ES3’s suite of TV applications for Microsoft’s Mediaroom IPTV platform. Raven provides digital television platform operators and content owners with an end-to-end advertising decision, delivery and reporting solution, and has been deployed globally in […]
An analysis of the top 75 media economies across North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific by media information provider SNL Kagan, evidences strong growth prospects for IPTV The analysis notes that IPTV adoption has increased at a 92.4 per cent compound annual growth rate over the past six years and […]
According to new market data from ABI Research, 11.3 million pay-TV subscribers were added at the end of first quarter of 2011. “By the end of 2011, the total number of pay-TV subscriptions is expected to exceed 759 million,” says practice director Jason Blackwell of ABI Research. Cable TV still maintains the largest market share; […]
Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media Olympics and Sport, has hinted that the future for local TV in the UK is likely to be on the basis of a number of individual licensees, with IP the delivery format. Hunt told members of the Broadcasting Press Guild that he was confident the government […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its Cable, Satellite, and IPTV Video Services and Subscribers report, which tracks the telco IPTV, cable video, and satellite video markets. “We’re seeing continued growth in the pay-TV market, driven by providers‚ ability to offer voice/video/data service bundles, a broad range of linear and on-demand content, […]
Espial, a specialist in On-Demand TV solutions, has announced that RomTelecom has now surpassed 35,000 IPTV subscribers with access to on-demand TV services powered by Espial MediaBase. These include timeshift-TV and video-on-demand services. RomTelecom is the incumbent telecom provider in Romania with more than 2.7 million landlines.
Bundled services provision has become one of the most successful ways to prevent customers from churning in telecoms world in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). One of their main components is often IPTV. Although the IPTV market is in the early stage of development, changes in media consumption are likely to ensure the market stable […]