Italian broadcaster Mediaset has extended its Infinity VoD streaming service to smartphones, providing subscribers with access to over 5000 movies in HD plus a large selection of cartoons. Owners of Android, Windows Phone and iOS devices will need to download the Infinity app from the App Store, Google Play or Windows Store. The service is […]
The latest Australian Multi-Screen Report, covering the fourth quarter of calendar 2013, shows robust viewing of broadcast television on in-home TVs. Australians are spending more time watching conventional television than they did a year ago and are also using Internet-connected devices to complement their viewing of TV and other video. An estimated 40 per cent […]
Further to its recent update on the commercial availability of its Tablet TV service and announcement of its first full market beta test this summer in San Francisco, digital TV software solutions provider Motive Television has revealed that it has received confirmation that testing of its technology for Freeview Tablet TV by the UK’s Digital […]
Tablet Television, America’s first broadcast TV service for tablets, has revealed plans for its first beta market test in San Francisco and start of commercial operations in autumn 2014. Tablet TV, a joint venture of Motive Television and Granite Broadcasting Corporation, puts television a touch away for portable devices with no subscription fee, cable, satellite […]
Vuclip, the independent mobile video and media company, has published the results of a study of Vuclip’s user base conducted by marketing and research firm Millward Brown. The study revealed that Vuclip’s more than 20 million mobile video consumers in India are largely trending towards mobile devices as their go-to source for content with 81 […]
Elemental Technologies, a supplier of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, has announced that MobiTV, a specialist in enabling delivery of live and on-demand TV Everywhere, is using Elemental video processing solutions to support its cloud-based video delivery platform. MobiTV is using Elemental Live and Elemental Server to deliver more than 40 HD television […]
Positioning itself as “the biggest innovation in the history of TV broadcasting” and promising to level the broadcasting playing field, create new revenue streams for celebrities and organisations, and enrich the viewer experience, US start-up operation Private Label Mobile TV hopes further to loosen the stranglehold of cable television providers. It claims that boosting revenue […]
Bharti Airtel is launching Pocket TV, a direct-to-phone TV service, this week. Bharti, India’s largest telco, says it will offer live content from more than 150 TV channels. The service will go live on Google Play this week and on iOS phones next month. The service is restricted to existing subscribers of Bharti’s Airtel DTH […]
The use of high-definition services is increasing on large home screens in Finland, while more and more users carry their televisions with them on personal mobile devices. Greater numbers of Finnish people are enjoying HD image quality, particularly for watching sports. A survey commissioned by DNA indicates that consumers in Finland are making active use […]
Parks Associates research shows that nearly 30 per cent of US broadband users watch video on a mobile phone monthly, with the average user watching 1.7 hours of video on a mobile phone each week. “Since 2008, revenues from voice services for the top-four US mobile network operators (MNOs) have declined