Viaccess-Orca (VO), a global specialist inOTT and TV platforms, content protection, and advanced data solutions; Wiztivi, a company for multiscreen user interfaces (UI); and EKT, a company that specialises in the design and manufacture of STB solutions, have joined forces to create an end-to-end (E2E) OTT multiscreen and IPTV solution for pay-TV operators and service […]
VITEC, a specialist in advanced video encoding and streaming solutions, and ATX Networks, a technology player in optical and media access platforms, have announced a strategic partnership to provide a fully secure architecture for distribution of IPTV content throughout the enterprise network via VITEC’s EZ TV IPTV and Digital Signage Platform and ATX’s carrier-grade UCrypt IP […]
Revenues from pay-TV in Spain increased by 14 per cent in 2017, according to Spain’s competition and markets watchdog, the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC). Pay-TV brought in €564 million with free-to air TV earning €560 million in the fourth quarter of 2017, according to the latest data available on the […]
Espial has announced that Hiawatha Broadband Communications (HBC), a provider of high-speed Internet, digital TV, telephone, and commercial services in Minnesota and Wisconsin, has expanded its affiliation with Espial to offer App-based IPTV and OTT services to set-tops, mobile phones, tablets, and streaming players including Roku. “Espial’s Elevate platform enables us to offer a seamless […]
Ed Vaizey, the former Minister for Culture and the Digital Economy, has revealed that George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer between May 2010 and July 2016, sought to move UK broadcasting to IP delivery. Delivering a closing Keynote Address on the Current Policy Landscape for Digital Communications at the DTG Summit in London, Vaizey suggested […]
Matthew Postgate, Chief Technology and Product Officer, BBC, has admitted that the Corporation will, at some stage, transition to becoming an all-IP broadcaster, but was unable to put a definitive timescale to such a move. Delivering a keynote address at the DTG Summit in London, Postgate suggested that the current 11-year BBC Charter period would […]
Pay-TV subscribers in Spain grew by 8.6 per cent in 2017 to a total of 6.6 million, with IPTV leading the market with 4 million subscribers, according to the latest figures from the CNMC. IPTV gained 569,000 subscribers in 2017 against a drop of 109,000 for DTH. Convergent packages are driving IPTV growth with 11.7 […]
The cord-cutting trend that threatens the future of the global pay-TV industry was not confined solely to the United States in 2017 according to business information provider IHS Markit; total pay-TV subscriptions also declined in 13 other markets. Customers cancelling their TV services in favour of online alternatives has been a key factor in declining […]
According to findings from Hub Entertainment Research’s What’s TV Worth, the firm’s annual study on the perceived value of TV services, there is a large gap in perceived value between online TV services and traditional cable, satellite or fibre optic services. Highlights from the study:
A man who infringed Sky’s broadcast copyright by streaming Sky Sports content to the public has been forced to pay £45,000 (€51,500) in fines and damages. Between March 3rd 2017 and April 1st 2017, Wasaq Rasheed shared streams from (the then) Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2. These streams were found on IPTVdonations.com, an illegally-run […]