DVR software specialist SageTV has revealed on its website that it has been acquired by Google. The likelihood is that Google will add SageTV’s TiVo-like recording capability to GoogleTV and the Google cloud. “We’re thrilled to announce that SageTV has been acquired by Google,” said the statement. “Since 2002, we’ve worked to change the TV […]
The new May online video rankings from comScore show that 176 million US Internet users, or about 83.3 per cent of the US audience, viewed online videos last month, spending an average of 15.9 hours per viewer over the month. More than 5.6 billion viewing sessions were recorded that month by comScore. Most of the […]
Sony movies have been pulled from Netflix’s online streaming service as a result of what Netflix describes as a “temporary contract issue” between Sony Corp. and its pay-TV distributor, Starz. Pauline Fischer, VP of Content Acquisition, said June 17th in a blog post to subscribers that the “two valued partners” were working through their differences. […]
Senior execs have used the NCTA in Chicago to play down the cord cutting threat that Netflix poses. “Our industry has always been about new content. Netflix is primarily a service that provides library programming,” said Philippe Dauman, chief executive of Viacom. Robert Marcus, chief operating officer of Time Warner Cable was even more bullish, […]
LBC America, a special TV channel tailored for Lebanese and Arab expats living in North and South America, is being transmitted over the web as part of the ‘myTV’ portfolio ofIinternet channels. LBC America carries the best of LBC’s output plus music and movies from Rotana’s archive of material. LBCI Chairman Pierre El Daher said:” […]
Broadcast services company Red Bee Media, responsible for managing more than 90 per cent of broadcaster video on demand content consumed in the UK, has launched RedPlayer, which it claims is the first ‘media grade’, end-to-end, next-generation online video platform. RedPlayer allows broadcasters and content owners in the UK and internationally to deliver and monetise […]
Synacor, a specialist in powering personalised homepages and online entertainment services for high-speed Internet subscribers, has announced it will enable Mediacom, the eighth largest cable television company in the US, to offer TV Everywhere services for their subscribers. When the services launch later this year, authenticated and entitled Mediacom subscribers will access TV Everywhere content […]
According to The Diffusion Group’s (TDG’s) latest analysis of ‘Netflix Streamers’ – those who stream Netflix content to their net-connected devices – the inclination to downgrade pay-TV services has doubled in just the last 12 months. In March 2011, TDG queried a random sample of adult broadband users that subscribe to cable, satellite, or telco […]
Over three-quarters of Americans (77 per cent) have watched a TV show on the Internet rather than on a traditional television, according to a poll by Harris Interactive. Over half of those with cable met (56 per cent) would stop paying for cable, if certain stipulations were met. Other findings in this poll include: – […]
The Chairman of the Canada’s broadcasting regulator has called for a rethink of the entire regulatory system, including the status of his own organisation. Delivering a welcome address at the Banff World TV Festival, Konrad von Finckenstein, Chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), outlined a number of media industry activities that are […]