Vodafone Germany has launched a new standalone IPTV service, branded Giga TV Net. The move follows the launch of MagentaTV by rival Deutsche Telekom last month. Giga TV Net is available for €9.99 per month for the first year and then €14.99 beyond that period. The basic service offers 62 SD channels and 40 HD […]
MediaKind – the new brand identity for Ericsson Media Solutions – will upgrade and further extend its Mediaroom platform, which currently enables the existing Magio IPTV service in Slovakia, to provide a pathway for future cloud migration and the introduction of virtualised architectures in both countries. This converged, agile, and highly scalable TV solution will […]
Italy is seeking new measures to combat piracy, a phenomenon that has assumed enormous dimensions and is hindering the growth of the pay-TV sector. The intention is to implement measures introduced in the UK such as blocking the illegal servers during football matches, as Italy has so far only acted against websites and apps, reports […]
Third-quarter results for US multichannel video subscriptions cut short a brief wave of optimism for the sector, according to Kagan, a media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. Accelerating losses from satellite providers and weakening net adds from Sling TV and DirecTV Now virtual multichannel alternatives drove the overall decline. Combined, the cable, direct […]
Findings from research and analysis firm Leichtman Research Group indicate that the largest pay-TV providers in the US – representing about 95 per cent of the market – lost about 975,000 net video subscribers in 3Q 2018, compared to a pro forma loss of about 410,000 subscribers in 3Q 2017. The top pay-TV providers now […]
Pay-TV revenue in Asia Pacific, comprised of subscription fees and local and regional advertising sales, will top $56 billion (€48.95bn) in 2018 after 5 per cent annual growth, according to a new report, Asia Pacific Pay-TV Distribution, from analyst firm Media Partners Asia (MPA). The Asia Pacific pay-TV industry will continue to expand at a […]
Wurl has entered into an agreement with Samsung to power select programming on Samsung’s new TV Plus service. Integrated with millions of Samsung Smart TVs, TV Plus is a new Internet-based TV service delivering a bundle of live channels and on-demand content from multiple media brands. For Samsung Smart TV owners, the Samsung and Wurl […]
Broadpeak and Inca Networks, a specialist in intelligent video delivery, have partnered to provide Minnesota-based ISP Hiawatha Broadband Communications (HBC) with a reliable and scalable IP video delivery solution. The subscriber management and user experiences are powered by Espial’s Elevate Cloud IPTV platform, which is a TV-as-a-service solution that enables HBC to offer IPTV and […]
NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company and independent provider of content protection and multiscreen TV solutions, has announced the launch of a secure multiscreen solution with pay-TV operator Ultravision, part of the Ultra Telecom group, in Mexico. The solution marks the first cloud deployment of the Conax GO Live solution in Mexico. Ultravision’s new multiscreen service […]
Broadpeak, a provider of CDN and video streaming solutions for content providers and pay-TV operators worldwide, has announced that Ultravision, a pay-TV operator in Mexico, has selected Broadpeak solutions to power its new IPTV multiscreen service. Ultravision will rely on Broadpeak’s BkM100 video delivery manager, BkS400 HTTP video cache servers, and BkS350 origin packager. By […]