Italian telco Fastweb has launched a free on-demand Chili TV that can be watched on any device connected to the Internet. Chili has some original programming as well as content from international studios and Italian producers including Warner, Paramount, MovieMax, Fandango, Lucky Red, Mondhome and Bim. Movies can be rented for 48 hours or purchased […]
MPP Global Solutions, a provider of payment services and eCommerce solutions to the media and entertainment endustries, are set to integrate their eCommerce payment services into the woomi platform to monetise the cloud-based video distribution service across multiple devices including Samsung connected TVs and Blu-ray players in the UK, ahead of an international launch in […]
MPP Global Solutions has been selected as the core Payment Service provider to manage transactions for Miniweb’s woomi platform on multiple devices, including Samsung connected TVs and Blu-ray players. MPP, the leading provider of Payment Services and eCommerce Solutions to the Media and Entertainment Industries are to integrate their eCommerce payment services into the woomi […]
Cryptography Research and The Athena Group have announced an agreement which will enable Athena to develop Differential Power Analysis (DPA) countermeasures for use by licensees of CRI’s DPA patents. “As part of our focus on delivering high-quality tamper-resistant security cores to serve the needs of ASIC and FPGA customers, Athena is excited to become a […]
Digital pay-TV technology solutions provider NDS and German cable MSO Tele Columbus are teaming up to launch a new HbbTV service. The service will be developed and hosted by Alcatel-Lucent, running on NDS MediaHighway set-top box software. In addition to its existing encrypted Free-TV and Pay-TV offering, the new HbbTV service will provide Tele Columbus […]
ANT, a provider of software and services for the delivery of digital TV, has announced that Good Mind Industries (GMI) has selected the ANT Galio HbbTV Platform for its new range of STBs. Working closely with German distributor COMAG, the product line is to be targeted at the HbbTV (Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV) retail market […]
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings fears that getting too large will start “an Armageddon” with cable networks. Hastings talked about Netflix’s “niche” philosophy of staying “not too big, not too small” — in a discussion at the Wired Business Conference in New York City. “We’ve consistently said getting into current season TV or newer movies would […]
Motive TV has won a US pilot trial for its ‘television anytime, anywhere’ place and time-shifting technology. San Francisco’s KOFY-TV, owned by Granite Broadcasting, is to test-run the service in order to “identify the most attractive features…for all of Granite’s US markets,” according to a statement. Len Fertig, CEO of Motive Television PLC said: “Motive’s […]
Verimatrix has announced the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) for IPTV will be deployed on the NTV-PLUS wholesale network to secure video for the “IPTV NTV-Plus” service via local broadband network operators. NTV-Plus, a leading Russian satellite broadcaster covering all of European Russia, Siberia and Ukraine with more than two million subscribers, is adding […]
German TV viewers will be able to access international programmes via hybrid, HbbTV-compliant devices following a deal between teveo interactive and Mediapool Content Services. The companies unveiled their HbbTV-based content platform ‘International TV’ at ANGA Cable. The platform will use the authorisation and payment system TV-ID, developed by teveo. Within the framework of the partnership, […]