Intel Corp is trying to sell its un-launched OTT service for $500 million and wants to complete a deal by year-end. Verizon Communications, tipped as candidate, is already speaking with content providers according to Bloomberg. OnCue has faced challenges getting content providers interested since it was launched last February. The chipmaker’s new CEO, Brian Krzanich, […]
Prior to its consumer launch later this week, executives behind TV streaming service VuTV have revealed further details of the operation’s positioning and strategy. Speaking exclusively to advanced-television.com, Mike Alexander, Business Development Manager at Strategy & Technology (S&T), confirmed that the service would be available on Channel 238 on UK DTT Platform Freeview and deliver […]
According to Australian company Roy Morgan Research, the proportion of Australians streaming or downloading TV, movie or video content online and not watching live broadcast TV at all has doubled, to 6 per cent of the population — or 1.2 million people. The company says this trend is related to two larger trends: the increase […]
PayWizard, the subscriber management and billing specialists for multi-screen media, has teamed up with Racing UK to launch Racing UK Anywhere, a service that allows consumers to watch horseracing on the move and on multiple devices. PayWizard worked closely with Racing UK on the launch of Racing UK Anywhere, upgrading the horseracing channel’s Subscriber Management […]
Members of Amazon’s LOVEFiLM can now access thousands of films and TV shows from the LOVEFiLM Instant streaming catalogue on Xbox One, Microsoft’s new generation console. Available now from the Xbox One App Marketplace, the LOVEFiLM Instant app features all of the service’s most popular features including HD streaming, Dolby Digital Plus (5.1) surround sound, […]
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has decided that he doesn’t want to disrupt the TV business and will sell its nascent OnCue service, according to Reuters. Intel intended to launch OnCue by the end of this year, and the plan was to offer a TV subscription service that would stream live TV feeds as well as […]
Wuaki.tv, the OTT provider based in Spain, is to launch in France, Germany and Italy next year, with a further 10 European launches, including the Nordic region, planned for 2015, Simon Homent, UK content director told the OTTtv World Summit. Rakuten, the Japanese e-commerce group that owns Wuaki, already has a presence in four of […]
On the occasion of UN World Television Day, ITU research shows that the world has witnessed a massive shift from analogue to digital television, with over 55 per cent of households with a TV now receiving a digital signal compared with just 30 per cent in 2008, according to new data from the organisation’s flagship […]
OTT television plays an important role in driving customer engagement and providing existing and prospective customers additional means of consuming their content, according to Luke Bradley-Jones, Product Director, TV, at BSkyB. Delivering a Keynote Address at the OTTTV World Summit in London, Bradley-Jones told delegates that Sky’s range of content access offerings such as Sky […]
IHS says that one of the major myths still casting a shadow over the TV industry is that viewing is largely moving over to non-linear forms, “with users increasingly time-shifting using PVRs and on-demand services on the set-top box and online”. However, according to an IHS report, the actual numbers show this anxiety to be […]