Philippine telco PLDT has announced the launch of a new IPTV service dubbed Watchpad. Existing subscribers to the company's myDSL broadband service will receive the TV over DSL offering for free. Initial channels available include National Geographic, Cartoon Network, Pinoy Box Office, CNN, Animax Mobile, CNBC and GMA 7. PLDT customer sales and marketing group […]
YouTube is close to a deal with Channel 4 that will lead to the majority of the broadcaster's content being available on the site. Like the recent deal with IPC, Channel 4 is being granted the rights to sell its own advertising around the content and share the revenues with YouTube. Such a deal would […]
According to The Diffusion Group, new TV Everywhere (TVE) efforts will face stiff competition from Over-the-Top (OTT) providers set on pushing Internet video beyond the PC to the TV and mobile devices. TDG, says both the TV Everywhere initiatives of incumbent PayTV operators such as Time Warner Cable, and the web-based OTT video services of […]
The Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) has published the Profiles specification for its Release 1 Solution. This specification is accompanied by a revision (Version 1.1) of its seven-volume Release 1 IPTV Solution specification, originally published in January 2009. All OIPF specifications are freely available for download from the Publications section of the Forum website www.oipf.tv. The […]
A survey has revealed that 2 per cent of all TV viewing in the US comes from non-traditional TV devices. In a recent survey of multichannel TV users, Horowitz Associates says the 2 per cent represents two hours of the 130.2 overall hours that US TV viewers watch in a month. The best device for […]
comScore said that in August YouTube surpassed 10 billion views in a single month in the United States , now on the third anniversary of its $1.65 billion deal with Google, YouTube has released more precise viewing figures than it had in the past, saying it serves more than 1 billion videos a day or […]
According to reports in the US internal YouTube e-mails, handed over in the preliminary discovery phase of the pending court action brought by Viacom, indicate that YouTube managers were aware of unauthorized content on the site and chose not to remove it. If true this would harm You Tube's defence that it cannot be responsible […]
From Colin Mann in Cannes Project Canvas, the IPTV joint venture between the BBC, ITV, Channel 5 and BT, is co-operating with HbbTV, the new pan-European initiative aimed at harmonising the broadcast and broadband delivery of entertainment to the end consumer through connected TVs and set-top boxes. The Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) cross industry […]
The Kudelski Group is renewing its attempt to take full ownership of OpenTV with a higher offer valuing the interactive TV software maker at $215 million. The deal offers OpenTV shareholders $1.55 per share for the 108 million outstanding shares that Kudelski does not already own. In February Kudelski, which currently owns 27% of OpenTV’s […]
An IMS Research study has revealed that IPTV deployments globally are largely attributed to tier 1 telcos. By the end of 2014, IMS Research forecasts 40.1 million TV households will be subscribers of Tier 1 telco IPTV services. Rebecca Kurlak, research analyst and author of the study, states, "Tier 1 telcos have the advantages of […]