In a seeming about-turn from its previous position, US telecoms and media company Cablevision is putting its support behind major US broadcast networks in their attempts to stop online television start-up Aereo from broadcasting TV programming over the Internet. Cablevision had been the subject of an action from companies such as Disney and News Corp […]
Live sports content is driving consumer mobile video viewing according to research from QuickPlay Media. A survey of UK mobile subscribers between the ages of 18-44, revealed more than half (52 per cent) of mobile video users watched at least one Olympic event on either a smartphone or tablet. Furthermore, of those who have watched […]
Further details have emerged of the Redbox Instant by Verizon online entertainment joint venture formed between US telco Verizon and retail solutions specialist Coinstar. Eric Bruno, Verizon’s vice president of strategy and planning for consumer and mass business markets, told Bloomberg that the service would offer subscription streaming, movie sales and rentals by Christmas, along […]
Netflix has overhauled its service on Android-powered mobile phones. In a blog-post, the company outlined the update: “At the top of the new browse screen on Android phones is a row that lets you continue watching programmes or films that you previously started watching right where you left off is a very handy feature. Lower […]
Canadian communications and media company Shaw Communications is taking the battle to OTT providers such as Netflix by launching Shaw Go, a service delivering the latest premium television programmes to customers anyplace, anytime on popular mobile devices, including the Apple iPad and new iPhone 5. The first phase of Shaw Go is the Movie Central […]
Global mobile satellite communications services provider Inmarsat has launched SBTV, a platform that enables airlines to provide real-time and updated on-demand entertainment content to passengers’ own devices. News, sports and other video content is transmitted to the aircraft over the SwiftBroadband network and then distributed wirelessly to passengers’ own devices, which can include smartphones, laptops, […]
According to market research company The NPD Group, on the anniversary of the failed introduction of Qwikster, Netflix has garnered more US subscribers than ever. One in four US households now subscribe to Netflix, based on data from NPD’s Subscription VOD report. “Today marks the first anniversary of Netflix introducing Qwikster, its by-mail DVD and […]
In Q1 2012, Americans spent nearly 35 hours per week watching video across screens and close to another five hours using the Internet on a computer. Amercians spend 1 hour 38 minutes per week on gaming devices and among owners of gaming devices that have the ability to stream video content (also referred to as […]
The number of older viewers in the US watching TV shows and movies weekly on tablets has skyrocketed in the last year while usage among tablet owners under 45 has plateaued, according to an annual survey of consumer video viewing habits conducted by Altman Vilandrie & Company and Research Now. The survey showed tablet owners […]
While many TV forecast that spending more time watching programmes on non-TV platforms such as iPads means spending less time watching “regular” television, just the opposite is the case. According to research from TDG, 88 per cent of adult tablet owners use the device to watch video, with television programmes ranking high on their content […]