Online TV service Hulu has launched a new subscription service in Japan, a move that marks the first international expansion for the company. Starting at launch and in the weeks following, Hulu’s service will offer entertainment fans in Japan unlimited instant access to hundreds of premium feature films and thousands of episodes from previous seasons […]
LoveFilm, the DVD postal subscription service that currently covers the UK, Germany and Scandinavia, might target new territories with a digital only service. LoveFilm says it would consider a streaming only service for certain markets. The criterion would include the expansion of the connected TV market and the availability of rights; a UK streaming only […]
Entone, a provider of hybrid TV and connected home solutions, and Nordija, the widget-based IPTV solution provider, have confirmed the availability of Nordija’s fokusOn widget-based middleware on Entone’s family of hybrid TV devices and DVRs. The fully integrated solution offers service operators a more efficient and cost-effective solution that can be quickly and easily deployed […]
RGB Networks, a provider of scalable multiscreen IP video delivery solutions, has revealed that Waoo!, a Danish broadband provider delivering fibre-based network services to nearly 200,000 households, has selected and deployed RGB’s Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG) and TransAct Packager, to provide a complete transcoding and packaging solution for its new OTT video service. Waoo! is […]
On Friday evening (Aug 26) Google boss Eric Schmidt delivered the annual MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival. He confirmed that Google TV would launch in Europe early next year with the UK “among the top priorities”. One cautionary comment came from Stewart Purvis, a former CEO at ITN and now professor of […]
Google is to launch its web-TV service in the UK within the next six months, according to reports. The launch was confirmed by CEO Eric Schmidt speaking at the Edinburgh International TV Festival. Schmidt said Google TV did not threaten broadcasters and would enable them to experiment with new formats online. He defended the company’s […]
Veteran US media analyst Rich Greenfield of BTIG Research, says Google should buy Hulu – though he still refers to the decision to sell as a “mistake of epic proportions”. Hulu, owned by Comcast, News Corp., Disney and Providence Equity, has reportedly extended the deadline for initial bids to this weekend (Aug 26th). Those […]
Ooyala has revealed its online video platform now integrates with Adobe Flash Access software. The new offering combines the leading video publishing, management, analytics and monetization solution with Adobe’s robust cross-platform content protection offering to provide seamless accessibility and scalability for high-quality video delivered online and on device via Adobe Flash technology. The integration enables […]
If you restrict legal access to your content does that increase piracy? Yes, says TorrentFreak revealing that since Fox Network restricted its shows to an eight-day catch up on Hulu and Fox.com, illegal downloads of those shows has more than doubled. The torrent news Web site tracked several popular Fox shows–including Hell’s Kitchen and MasterChef–on […]
Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt will tell the audience at the Edinburgh TV Festival this week that “Google needs you” according to The Guardian. In the annual MacTaggart lecture Schmidt is expected to say Google wants to help the industry and draw a line under a history of fraught legal actions with studios and broadcasters over […]