Hulu, the video website owned by News Corp and NBC Universal, hopes to expand internationally and is interested in Britain, France, Germany and Japan. Peter Smith, President of NBC Universal International, told reporters that his firm would love to roll out the online video joint venture further but that there were no concrete plans to […]
ITV has signed an agreement with BT to supply a range of current and library programming to customers of BT's digital TV service, BT Vision – ITV's first deal of this type with a VOD operator. BT Vision customers will also be able to enjoy a range of library content on demand.
Content licensing leaders NTTC, (National Telco Television Consortium) and SMS, Satellite Management Services, have forged a strategic relationship to provide increased options for IPTV and SMATV system operators in the US. The move is aimed at reaching farther and deeper into traditional residential style IPTV systems by adding a variety of content deployment products. "NTTC […]
IPTV platform supplier Amino Communications is to acquire Swedish vendor Tilgin AB’s IPTV set-top box (STB) division in a £2.5 million (€3.17m). The company says the purchase of Tilgin IPTV, which offers a range of H.264 HD IPTV STBs within its ‘Mood’ product line, will further enhance Amino’s award-winning product portfolio and add new software […]
Eleven per cent of adults in the US aged 18 to 34 now watch TV online at least once a week, according to the latest findings by MultiMedia Mentor from Knowledge Networks. These young adults spend 80 per cent more time online than the general 18-to-34 population, and 16 per cent more time (about 1.25 […]
Project Kangaroo's set back continue as CEO Ashley Highfield leaves the online venture before launch to become managing director for Microsoft UK’s online operation. He will be replaced on an interim basis by Rod Henwood, the former Channel 4 business director responsible for launching 4oD, the channel’s on-demand service, while a search for a replacement […]
Subscribers to TV services powered by the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV and multimedia software platform have more than doubled, reaching over 2 million subscriber homes and powering services on nearly 4 million set-top boxes worldwide. In the past quarter Mediaroom customers have connected 500,000 new subscribers across the globe. AT&T is one of Microsoft's fastest-growing Mediaroom […]
Multimedia Research Group's latest IPTV Global Forecast shows that global IPTV subscribers will grow from 20.4 million IPTV subscribers in 2008 to 89.6 million in 2012. To drive this growth, IPTV Operators worldwide are expected to continue investing in improved Quality-of-Service, ease-of-operation, HD content, exclusive programming and time-shifting as differentiating features. In Europe, for example, […]
Despite the popularity of online video, new research shows that European content owners are struggling to turn a profit as delivery costs in many cases exceed advertising revenues. By comparison, businesses in the US have been more successful at making money from online content, having negotiated better technology distribution deals and established more effective advertising […]
According to a survey of nearly 2000 UK digital TV viewers, commissioned by Microsoft-s Connected TV Business, over a quarter of digital viewers (27 per cent) still rely on flicking through all the channels to choose what to watch, wasting more than one week per year channel surfing. On average, digital viewers in the UK […]