A report from Juniper Research forecasts that consumers will interact with voice assistants on over 8.4 billion devices by 2024; overtaking the world’s population and growing 113 per cent compared to the 4.2 billion devices expected to be in use by year end 2020. Despite this, monetisation of the voice assistants themselves remains a challenge. […]
With its European-wide launch set for March 24th, the Disney+ SVoD platform has a user experience equal to that of Amazon Prime Video, but still clearly lags behind industry leader Netflix, according to a large-scale user experience study conducted by digital-TV product agency TeraVolt. In the survey, which analysed the user experience of various streaming […]
TiVo has won another battle to protect its patents. An appeal before the US Court of Appeals has backed a decision issued by the US International Trade Commission. While the patents under discussion have in themselves expired, the verdict is likely to help further decisions pending of a similar nature. The next argument with Comcast […]
Recognising that top 10 lists are a frequent way to find out what’s popular, Netflix is rolling out a new Top 10 feature. In addition to the overall top 10 list, users will also be able to see the top 10 most popular series and top 10 films when they click on the movies and […]
Movistar Plus is upgrading its pay-TV platform adding new functionalities including a voice-controlled remote and double-screen option to watch two different channels at the simultaneously. It is also adding new services including Apple TV+. The platform is boosting its UHD content with more football matches and original TV series. Movistar says that around 30 per […]
Some 75 million people in the US are now using a smart speaker, and more than half of them – 39 million – are using it to control their smart TV, video streamer or other TV device at least weekly. This finding comes from Strategy Analytics’ report, 2019 Smart Speaker User Survey – US Results, […]
TiVo Corp is to merge with Xperi Corp, creating one of the largest licensing companies in the world. In an all-stock transaction representing approximately $3 billion (€2.7bn) of combined enterprise value and following the close of the transaction, Xperi shareholders will own approximately 46.5 per cent of the combined business, and TiVo shareholders will own […]
Subscribers to Vodafone TV is Spain are now able to manage their programming with their voice thanks to a new remote control device equipped with a microphone. The new remote will enable subscribers to make personalised searches with different criteria (by actors, directors, genres etc), total control of video with rewind and forward functionalities, launch […]
FandangoNOW, the US VoD service from movie-focused digital service Fandango, has launched an on-demand movies and TV store on Facebook’s home video calling device, Portal TV. The new FandangoNOW store will provide Portal TV users access to more than 100,000 new release and catalogue movies and next-day TV shows to rent or buy, no subscription […]
Bulgarian multiplay telco A1 Bulgaria has launched A1 Xplore TV, an advanced TV user experience powered by Zappware’s video back-office: an end-to-end solution. A1 Xplore TV viewers will be able to find and enjoy content easily through the Zappware Nexx 4.0 user experience. “Our goal is to constantly offer innovative services to our customers to […]