YouTube is dramatically expanding its movie rental service with the addition of 3,000 titles from major Hollywood studios, positioning the online video service to capitalise on the growing number of Internet-connected televisions and portable devices. YouTube head Salar Kamangar revealed the initiative in a blog post, telling users that they would be able to watch […]
ESPN has launched an Android app but only for customers of Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Verizon FiOS TV. The sports programmer is making four live network feeds – with most of the same programming that’s available on TV – available through a free app for Google’s Android operating system to subscribers of […]
Turkish ISP TTNet has selected video equipment developer SeaChange International as systems integrator and a primary technology provider for its IPTV service Tivibu Ev. SeaChange assembled a multinational team of engineers, project managers and technology partners to build advanced television services. SeaChange’s professional services have developed the operational processes and procedure designs to support the […]
On the eve of Google’s San Francisco developer conference there are reports in the US that it has decided to delay the release of any further TV products until it could make significant improvements. Google TV received lukewarm reviews on its release of the $600 STBs from Sony and Logitech and the company has failed […]
Online movie streaming service Netflix is working on a push into Latin America and is close to announcing deals with three of the continent’s largest broadcasters to begin streaming programming online in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico, the Financial Times reports, citing several people briefed on the plans. According to the Financial Times , Netflix […]
Australian telco Optus is partnering with FetchTV jointly to develop an IPTV service with integrated mobile functionality for smartphones and tablet devices. The service is scheduled for launch in the second half of 2011 and is part of Optus’s broader TV strategy to develop a suite of converged video services, delivering choice and control for […]
Growing sales of Internet-enabled or connected TVs will help push video service providers to move more quickly to develop offerings that combine elements of conventional pay-TV with over-the-top (OTT) Internet video in an effort to maintain service revenues, but the migration path to hybrid video is uncertain at this point, according to the latest report […]
Rovi Corporation and Sony Electronics have revealed that Sony has launched Rovi Advertising Service, part of Rovi Cloud Services, on connected Sony Bravia TVs in the US, providing greater opportunities for brands to reach consumers. Under this new relationship, Rovi will sell and deliver advertising to the latest line of connected Sony Bravia TVs. Rovi […]
Harmonic has announced that TV Azteca, the second largest broadcaster in Mexico, has deployed Harmonic’s IP-based video processing solutions to facilitate satellite distribution of its expanded HDTV service to hundreds of retransmission sites throughout Mexico and Central America. The new DVB-S2-based distribution system relies on Harmonic’s multifunction compression and stream processing solutions to reduce the […]
Deutsche Telekom’s turnover dipped 8 per cent to €14.5 billion in Q1 with profit down 19 per cent to €1.6 billion. However its Entertain IPTV service grew to 1.257 million subs, up from 896,000 a year ago. In Hungary, Magyar Telekom topped 750,000 subs on IPTV and DTH during March, resulting in a 13.5 per […]