Dish Network has announced that Dish Online.com now gives its US customers instant, unlimited access to HBO and Cinemax titles not offered by Netflix’s online service. In connection with HBO’s new online video destinations, HBO GO and MAX GO, Dish Network customers who subscribe to HBO or Cinemax premium channels can now instantly watch nearly […]
In a move designed to position it for the next stage in the Internet-driven revolution in home entertainment, supermarket chain Tesco has acquired a majority stake in video-on-demand pioneer blinkbox. blinkbox is the UK’s leading movie streaming service, offering thousands of titles streamed on the internet to 2m users each month. Their catalogue of more […]
LoveFilm, the UK DVD and online video rental business, has confirmed a deal to stream Disney films. LoveFilm subscribers will be able to watch more than 50 Disney titles. The company will also make new releases available to non-members around five months after their box office premiere for between £2.49 (€2.84) and £3.49 a film. […]
Canada’s leading television companies are targeting Netflix and other online streaming services in an attempt to bring the fast-growing competitive threat to the TV business into the same regulations they must follow. Senior executives for Astral Media said that documents have been filed with regulators seeking a review of the California streaming service’s ability to […]
Open IPTV platform YouView has published its final core technical specification for launch and announced further device partners. A single technical document, detailing the core YouView interoperability specification for launch is now available on the YouView web site. The YouView Core Technical Specification references the Digital Television Group’s D-Book 72 and provides a set of […]
The global consulting firm is producing a turnkey solution: OTT TV, aimed at letting service providers, content companies or retailers deliver both linear and on-demand content to TV sets and a range of other platforms including PCs, mobile, gaming consoles and broadband-connected TVs. Unveiled at NAB, the Accenture Over-The-Top TV solution is “based on a […]
Media Excel, a provider of live and file based encoding and n-Screen adaptive bitrate transcoding, and Verimatrix, have formed a partnership that enables digital TV service operators to securely deploy high quality video over any IP network to multiple screens – TVs, PCs, mobile devices and beyond. A combination of the Verimatrix VCAS for Internet […]
US online television revenue growth accelerated in 2010, rising by 34.2 per cent, up from 31.2 per cent in 2009 according to IHS Screen Digest. Total revenue in 2010 amounted to $1.6 billion, up from $1.2 billion in 2009. Growth was driven by a reinvigorated online advertising market that expanded by 64.7 per cent to […]
YouTube has launched a live-video streaming service in beta as it continues to build its live content offering. YouTube has so far offered one-off streams of music concerts and sports events and will cover the IPL. YouTube Live will eventually be a permanent feature of the search engine, integrating live streaming and discovery tools. Viewers […]
The majority of consumers of all ages in seven major markets around the world are choosing to watch video content over the Internet via their televisions, PCs, smartphones and other electronic devices, according to Accenture’s Video-Over-Internet Consumer Usage Survey. Among 6,500 consumers surveyed, 85 per cent of participants ages 18 to 24, 82 per cent […]