Digital media services company Avail-TVN has unveiled AnyView Authentication, its managed service designed to give service providers a quick and easy route to offering TV Everywhere access to high quality, high demand content via programmers’ federated content portals. AnyView Authentication allows service providers to authenticate securely and authorise subscribers to the TV Everywhere portals of […]
Sky Broadband customers are to get access to free, unlimited and high-speed WiFi at thousands of public places across the UK through new Sky “WiFi Hotspots from The Cloud”. Located in popular and useful locations such as in transport hubs, shopping centres and coffee shops, WiFi Hotspots from The Cloud will allow eligible Sky […]
Orange is launching its smartphone app for interacting with TV shows to the UK. User point the phone camera at the TV to identify shows by cloud based signal processing then they can share their viewing habit with social networks. The app has had about 100,000 downloads since release in France last year. It will […]
Hulu Plus, the US online subscription service, has confirmed it is now available on seven Android tablets with a brand new, “super deluxe” Hulu Plus user interface. Writing in a company blog, Software Developers Rajiv Makhijani and Zachary Pinter advise that the Hulu Plus app from Google Play can be downloaded, enabling a new way […]
Channel 5 is to launch its TV catch-up Demand 5 to Android devices, connected TVs and the PS3 this summer. The broadcaster says it has seen viewing across Demand 5 double over the past 12 months. James Tatam head of digital said syndication remains a core part of its strategy, and has helped drive “huge” […]
DTS, a specilaist in HD audio, has announced a partnership with mobile multimedia software vendor NXP Software to integrate a suite of DTS audio technologies in their QuickPlayer and CineXPlayer smart media player solutions. DTS’ collaboration with NXP Software enables studios, service providers and network operators to rapidly deploy HD video services with the highest […]
OTT provider FilmOn.com says its Air tuner for iPhone/Android is now available in the UK. The company will be shipping the FilmOn Air for free, to all its yearly UK and European based subscribers, so they can watch local network television on their computers and mobile devices. FilmOn has licensed over 120 HD online television […]
As predicted by advanced-television.com, US retail giant Walmart has confirmed details of its disc-to digital conversion service. The service is powered by Walmart-owned video streaming service VUDU and will increase the take-up of the studio-backed UltraViolet digital content rights ecosystem. The initiative sees Walmart, in partnership with the major Hollywood studios Paramount Home Media Distribution, […]
As the BBC prepares a big push for its online coverage of this summer’s Olympic games, Ralph Rivera, the BBC’s director of future media, says this year could be pivotal for TV’s next evolution. “Our aspiration is that 2012 will do for digital and connected televisions what the coronation did for TV,” he told the […]
A report from Juniper Research finds that growing user satisfaction with mobile TV on tablets will push average monthly viewing times to 186 minutes per month in 2014. The report finds that as users become more accustomed to viewing content on tablets, and as a wider range of content becomes available on tablets, consumers will […]