Sky Italia has expanded the range of devices that its Sky Go multiscreen service is available on. Previously only available on iPads and Galaxy Tabs, the service is now accessible on PCs, Macs and iPhones. Sky Go, which offers 25 channels, is free to all Sky Italia HD customers – accounting for 73 per cent […]
Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has announced that its Premium Play service will be available for the iPad from April. The service provides access to over 2,000 TV programmes that can be watched on a TV, a computer or an Xbox console. Launched in November 2011, the Premium broadband service has now been running for 100 […]
Initial findings from the Mobile Media Consumption Q4 2011 survey conducted by independent mobile advertising network InMobi suggest that mobile has surpassed TV in terms of time spent,with mobile web users spending 27 per cent of their media time on mobile and spending 22 per cent of their media time on TV. InMobi suggests that […]
The relentless march toward digital media technology has driven the evolution of consumer electronics from specialised electronic devices to multipurpose, networked computing devices, with the advent of ‘smart CE devices’ having a profound effect on the digital multimedia home, according to research firm NPD In-Stat, who forecast that smart CE device unit shipments will surpass […]
Time Warner Chief Executive Jeff Bewkes has defended the autumn 2011 launch of digital movie technology UltraViolet, led by the Warner Bros. studio, stressing the importance of launching early rather than waiting for further improvements. Speaking at the Deutsche Bank Media and Telecommunications conference in Palm Beach, Bewkes said the reason the studio didn’t wait […]
US retail giant Wal-Mart Stores is in discussions with companies behind the UltraViolet (UV) common file format and digital rights authentication ecosystem to provide an in-store service that will assist customers in registering DVDs they already own, reports The Wall Street Journal. UV has some 800,000 household accounts in the US since the first UV-enabled […]
Samsung and Qualcomm have confirmed they will release a secure HD service utilising Qualcomm’s Snapdragon StudioAccess and ARM’s TrustZone technologies. This service allows consumers to watch HD videos directly on their mobile device through Samsung Media Hub. This secure HD service will be debuted on the 5.3″ HD Super AMOLED display of the Samsung Galaxy […]
Digital content technologist Adobe has unveiled what it is claiming as the industry’s first fully integrated video technology platform, codenamed Project Primetime, to enable smooth, TV-like experiences for ad-supported videos across Web-connected devices. This new platform delivers premium video and ad content consistently across all major platforms, including Apple iOS, Google Android, desktop operating systems […]
TiVo is planning to extend its digital TV technology expertise beyond the DVR. Commenting on the company’s Q4 results, Tom Rogers, TiVo President and CEO, said the advanced television services specialist was continuing to make strides to bring the look and feel of the TiVo user interface to other platforms beyond the DVR. “To that […]
Netflix will be available on Sony’s new game console Playstation Vita from launch. The Vita is the successor to the Playstation Portable and the carriage agreement will initially cover Netflix’s subscribers in the US, Canada and Latin America. “We are very excited that Netflix is available on PS Vita at launch,” said Greg Peters, vice […]