Communications market research firm Infonetics Research has released the fourth quarter (4Q08) edition of its IPTV and Switched Digital Video Equipment, Services, and Subscribers report. Jeff Heynen, Directing Analyst, Broadband and Video, Infonetics Research, said that with service providers around the world countering decreasing revenue by cutting capex, one would assume video equipment providers would […]
A Knowledge Networks study offers clear evidence that streamers and downloaders of TV network video have embraced – or at least accepted – advertising as an alternative to for-pay models. Eighty per cent of network video downloaders favour watching ads in exchange for free video, up from 67 per cent in 2006; and 69 per […]
Recent findings from broadband research consultancy The Diffusion Group (TDG) suggest that the appeal of widget-enabled TV and video systems will be far greater than many expect. As well, the range of widget-based applications demanded by consumers will quickly eclipse the basic 'information push’ apps to be featured on the first wave of widget-enabled TVs […]
Independent Web TV service Babelgum has released a new version of its mobile video application in the US, UK and Italy and simultaneously launched a redesigned website with a Flash-based player, offering, it says, one of the first fully integrated video mobile and web user experiences. Babelgum mobile has already experienced success in the UK […]
Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB), supplier of technology to the global digital television industry, has been accepted as a member of the Open IPTV Forum. The Forum is an industry organisation working on "Open Standards" for end to end IPTV solutions.
Disney has struck a deal with Google’s online video network YouTube to distribute short-form content from ESPN and ABC. The agreement would extend the Internet reach for ESPN’s sports highlights and ABC News updates and provide another outlet for video snippets taken from the ABC broadcast network and ABC Family cable channel shows. Disney hopes […]
The Swiss operator is immediately adding the new channels nine of which will be English-language channels from the UK. They include BBC Three, BBC Four, CBBC, Cbeebies, Five, E4, More 4, ITV 3 and ITV. German channels ZDF Infokanal and Eins Extra will also join the line-up, along with Austrian music channel gotv, Bibel TV […]
According to German press reports Deutsche Telekom is having chronic technical problems with its IPTV platform T-Home Entertain. News magazine Stern says internal documents show call centres and technicians are having to deal with a tidal wave of complaints. The main problem seems to be poor pictures with latency and drop outs with the disruption […]
Google ‘s YouTube and Universal Music are in talks to create a premium online music video service. If they reach a deal, the service could mark a significant step forward in Google’s attempt to generate revenue from YouTube, which it acquired for $1.65 billion in 2006. They are in talks to create a stand-alone site […]
Viacom is sympathetic to Time Warner’s “TV Everywhere” says CEO Philippe Dauman who said the company was “very open” to experimenting with models that would allow cable, satellite and telco TV subscribers to view cable content online. “We think it has to be seamless to the consumer, and we’re working [with the distributors] on the […]