An increasing number of television viewers are turning to the Internet to watch videos, films and TV episodes, according to a new survey conducted by Harris Interactive. In the past year, YouTube has extended its lead as the top site for online videos, with search engines and television networks gaining ground. Some 65 per cent […]
According to ChoiceStream's 2007 Survey of Viewer Trends in TV and Online Video, 65 per cent of consumers who watch video on their computers, mobile devices or digital media players are watching professionally-produced TV programming, including network- and cable-produced shows, news and sports. This number exceeds the39 per cent of consumers watching user-generated video by […]
The telco TV market is quickly adding new deployments and subscribers, which is boosting headend equipment sales as each deployment requires at least one headend, reports research firm In-Stat. Growth in the ranks of subscribers means more revenue from licence, service, and support fees for vendors of middleware, content protection, and on-demand platforms, the high-tech […]
Internet TV platform Brightcove, and IAC have announced a wide-ranging agreement giving IAC businesses the opportunity to launch comprehensive Internet video initiatives with Brightcove. Ticketmaster, Citysearch and 23/6 are among the first IAC brands to utilise Brightcove’s platform to create, manage, publish, distribute and monetise video on the Web. Under the terms of the agreement, […]
After a 32 per cent jump in sales in the second quarter, worldwide IPTV equipment sales hit $682.5 million (E473.7m) in the third quarter of 2007, up 23 per cent sequentially, according to Infonetics Research's quarterly IPTV report. Likewise, manufacturers of IP set-top boxes (STBs) saw revenue jump 35 per cent worldwide in Q3 from […]
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has confirmed the first set of global standards for IPTV. The standards were built with technical contributions from service providers and manufacturers from the information and communication technology sector. The new standards were developed by the Focus Group on IPTV in ITU’s telecommunication standardisation sector. Contained within the documents produced […]
US telco Qwest Communications will invest an extra $300 million in capital to build fibre-to-the-node networks (FTTN) to reach 1.5 million homes in 20 markets but is not planning to deliver IPTV service over those networks. Qwest Chairman and CEO Ed Mueller also promised more details about Qwest's plans in late February of 2008 when […]
BT Vision, the next-generation digital-TV service, now features a new viewer magazine banded 'On Vision'. Designed by BT Vision, and produced and hosted by emuse, it runs in the Microsoft Mediaroom Tasman TV browser for BT Vision customers to view on screen. On Vision keeps viewers informed about the quality programming they can expect in […]
SK Telecom, South Korea’s top mobile carrier, is planning to launch a video-on-demand TV service that can be used through any Internet operator. SK Telecom will intends to launch the service with Samsung Electronics providing set-top boxes. Detailed schedules for its launch are not yet known.
Channel 4 is previewing the first episode of the new series of its flagship drama Shameless exclusively on MySpace. Shameless already has a profile on the social networking site with 16,800 fans so far. The first episode of the fifth series will be split into four eight-minute segments and premiered on MySpace from 26th December.