Netgem has announced the launch of the new Netgem TV experience, designed for the UK market. Combining in one simple interface the best of ‘free-to-view’ and ‘skinny bundles’ with On-Demand streaming content, it offers: – Freeview Play provides subscription-free catch-up and On-Demand access to BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All 4, Demand 5 and UKTV Play; […]
Amazon has announced Alexa for Hospitality, a new experience offered to hoteliers that brings the Alexa voice assistant to hotels, vacation rentals, and other hospitality locations. Using the Amazon Echo in their room, guests can now ask Alexa for hotel information, contact the hotel to request guest services, play music in their room, order PPV […]
Content discovery and viewer lifecycle management leader, ThinkAnalytics, has announced that Tata Sky, India’s leading content distribution platform for pay-TV and OTT, has selected ThinkAnalytics to power personalised content recommendations across connected devices. The personalised recommendations will initially be available on Tata Sky’s applications across mobile and PC platforms. Tata Sky, which has over 18 […]
Aura, Telefónica’s artificial intelligence (AI), voice-controlled digital assistant, is now available on the Movistar Plus pay-TV platform in Spain via iOS and Android apps. Subscribers to Movistar Plus can use voice commands to change channels, search for content, ask for recommendations, order content, and pause and rewind whilst using the service. The app is also […]
Vodafone Portugal has rolled out Smart Replay, a new feature of its Vodafone TV service, that offers a new way to watch football on TV. This new feature is available free of charge to all triple-play subscribers. With Replay, Vodafone customers can interact with the live coverage of matches in both SD and HD. Whenever […]
DISH has introduced new Amazon Alexa voice capabilities that give customers the ability to set recordings, launch apps and navigate menus on Hopper family set-top boxes. This update enhances the Hands-Free TVTM experience by building on DISH’s existing Alexa voice functions, including the ability to play, pause, fast-forward, rewind and search content. “We are working […]
Specialist provider of input devices and interaction mechanisms ruwido has unveiled its latest designs of multimodal input devices specially developed for the needs of Android TV services. In order to meet the demands of today’s TV landscape, where TV platforms have been opened up to multiple content sources which means a fantastic variety of services […]
Channel 4 has announced that All 4 viewers can now ask the Google Assistant to play content from All 4 on Chromecast, from their Google Home and Google Home Mini. This represents the first time a UK on-demand TV service has become integrated with Google Assistant across Google’s family of Home devices. Viewer can say, […]
As fans around the world get ready to head to Russia for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, US broadcaster FOX Sports and IBM are launching what they describe as a historical AI collaboration across multiple FOX Sports properties and programming— the first of its kind for the broadcaster. Beginning with the 2018 FIFA World Cup, […]
Friend MTS, the content and revenue protection specialist, has announced that castLabs, a global player in premium digital video technology, has joined the ASiD Watermarking Partner Programme to better protect premium content from streaming piracy on OTT connected devices. “Integrating Friend MTS’ ASiD subscriber watermarking within our PRESTOplay video player SDKs, alongside our DRMtoday DRM […]