YouTube Direct is a new market place service whereby TV and online news editors can obtain video from so-called “citizen journalists”. News outlets seeking footage can announce it in a variety of ways, including via call-out videos. “News organisations always want to verify the content they use,” said Steve Grove, head of news and politics […]
Telstra will begin a live trial of its new digital set-top “T-box” this week, ahead of its release in Australia. Several hundred customers will begin using the device in a trial that will enable them to start watching movies downloaded from the Internet on their TV sets. The T-box will make it possible for Telstra […]
BSkyB and Virgin Media had a rare show of unity when they agreed that the Project Canvas open IPTV platform should not be cleared by the BBC Trust because it isn't providing anything the market isn't already. Griff Parry, director of on demand for Sky, told the C21Media's FutureMedia conference "there's no evidence of market […]
MSN Video, Microsoft’s long-form video platform, will come out of its testing phase and be fully available to consumers after Christmas. Ashley Highfield, Microsoft’s managing director and vice- president consumer and online, UK, said he planned a full rollout of MSN Video after Christmas, in response to “a real demand for MSN Video from agencies […]
The number of US broadband households watching premium online content, including movies and TV shows via the Internet, doubled in the last year, according to a study from Parks Associates. Currently over 25 million US broadband households regularly watch full-length TV shows online, while over 20 million watch movies online. It says this shift highlights […]
ITV and Hulu are to sign a deal allowing the platform to distribute full-length ITV shows- some exclusively. As part of the deal ITV will gain an equity stake in Hulu UK, understood to be about 25%. Hulu’s parent company is owned equally by Disney, NBC Universal, Providence Equity and News Corp. ITV is the […]
An IMS Research report has revealed that the broadcast industry will experience an estimated 19 per cent annual increase in worldwide shipments during 2010, representing an 11 per cent annual increase in revenues over 2009. This includes all broadcast encoders serving the ingest, transcode, distribution and contribution (fixed & mobile) markets. At the end of […]
An IMS Research report has revealed that the broadcast industry will experience an estimated 19 per cent annual increase in worldwide shipments during 2010, representing an 11 per cent annual increase in revenues over 2009. This includes all broadcast encoders serving the ingest, transcode, distribution and contribution (fixed & mobile) markets. At the end of […]
Nearly two-thirds of Netflix subscribers have tried out the company’s 'Watch Instantly' streaming service, and more than half use it at least once a month, according to a survey released by research firm One Touch Intelligence. The survey findings suggest that usage of the streaming service has moved beyond the early adopter stage and into […]
People who download music illegally also spend an average of £77 (E85)a year buying it legitimately, a survey has found, while those who claimed not to use peer-to-peer filesharing sites spent a yearly average of just £44. Almost one in 10 of those questioned aged between 16 and 50 said they downloaded music illegally. However, […]