The UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is calling for views on whether there is any need for legislative change to deal with the issue of illicit IPTV streaming devices. According to the IPO, the use of IPTV boxes to access illegal content appears to have increased in recent months. Such boxes were originally designed to allow […]
IP-based video delivery solutions specialist MobiTV has closed $21 million (€19.91m) in funding from Oak Investment Partners and Ally Corporate Finance. The funding will accelerate the expansion of the MobiTV Connect Platform to enable IP delivery for pay-TV providers. “We’re able to future-proof the service providers’ pay-TV offerings through state-of-the-art features and rich user experiences […]
In its latest IPTV Market Leader Report, Kagan Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, has named Edgeware as the VoD server software market leader in three out of its six tracked regions. TheTV CDN technology specialist is one of 32 technology vendors that were tracked by Kagan in four categories – VoD server software, […]
French commercial media group TF1 has threatened to withdraw from the platforms of some French IPTV operators. Régis Ravanas, head of advertising and diversification at TF1, said the group is looking to raise its revenues by making IPTV operators like Free, Orange and SFR pay to carry its DTT channels (TF1, TMC and NT1). If […]
Spain’s Cuerpo Nacional de Policía (National Police Force) has successfully raided a store in a shopping centre in the Málaga resort of Calahonda, owned by an ISP suspected of hosting a large-scale illegal IPTV streaming business, thanks to a collaborative effort with Premier League and content security specialist Irdeto. Investigations revealed that the ISP in […]
Five people have been arrested in a crackdown on the sale and distribution of illegal TV set-top devices in the North West of England and Wales. The multi-agency day of action on February 8th saw the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), Greater Manchester Police, City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) and the […]
French IPTV platform Free is adding two new channel bundles to its service for €2.99 each per month. The first is a Vietnamese bundle of four channels including pubcasters VTV1 (news and documentaries), VTV3 (entertainment), HTV9 (general entertainment) and NetViet/VTC10 (dedicated to ex-pats). The second is Arabic kids bouquet Telekidz that comprises of preschool networks […]
ProSiebenSat.1 Media has signed a long-term agreement with Vodafone for the distribution of its free, paid, HD, and VoD content. Starting at the end of February, Vodafone customers in Germany will be able to directly order and use maxdome via Vodafone’s new GigaTV entertainment platform. With this agreement, maxdome will be distributed via all major […]
Last week Sky announced that in 2018 it would introduce an OTT broadband service which would include its SkyQ set-top box, and targeting the 2 million homes in the UK (and 6 million in Europe) which had no possibility of satellite dish reception. The news went down very badly with investors holding stock in Luxembourg-based […]
Telefónica’s IPTV platform Movistar Plus is offering free iPlus set-top-boxes in an attempt to boost subscriptions to the pay-TV platform by satellite, which currently has 800,000 subscribers (versus 3.7 million via IP). The device will allow new and current subscribers to have access to HD channels, VoD and online box office content. Recording services are […]