Mediaset, Italy’s largest commercial broadcaster, has turned to global consulting firm Accenture to create and manage its Mediaset Infinity service, which delivers film and television shows on-demand to a wide array of IP-enabled devices such as set-top boxes, PCs, tablets, connected TVs and gaming consoles. Leveraging the Accenture Video Solution (AVS), Mediaset launched its new […]
Sky has unveiled further details about its new “Buy & Keep” movie service. Until now, Sky only allowed its customers to rent movies from the Sky Store, but its Buy & Keep service supports downloads that can be stored permanently on a Sky+HD box. Furthermore, every download will supported by a DVD copy that will […]
Amazon has revealed its much-anticipated TV streaming device – dubbed Amazon Fire TV – at an event in New York.The device has WiFi built in, and Amazon claims it has three times the performance and power of sector competitors AppleTV, Roku and Chromecast. It has 2 GB of RAM, which is designed to ensure applications […]
Amazon has acquired the streaming rights to all eight seasons of 24 as well as the incoming new series, 24: Live Another Day… All 192 episodes of the series, that feature Jack Bauer and friends thwarting terrorist attacks, as well as the new season will be available online exclusively to Amazon Prime Instant Video subscribers […]
Findings from an online survey by Harris Poll on behalf of Comcast suggest that an overwhelming majority of Americans binge-watch television shows, and when they do, they prefer current season episodes. Over half of binge-watchers would rather
Google’s Chromecast has added support for a trio of new apps in the US, namely movie-streaming Vudu, music player Rdio, and Sony-owned TV library Crackle. Owners of Chromecast can access the apps through the $35 dongle immediately via an Android or iOS device, as well as via Google Chrome on a PC. The news comes […]
Israel’s Vidmind has partnered with Media Excel to deliver time-and-place shifting of linear TV channels as part of its turnkey hybrid OTT/DTT solution. Virtual operators can now utilise existing free-to air content and offer it to their audience to view at any time and across multiple connected devices – as part of a Prime TV […]
The BBC and other broadcast partners are set to drop their annual contribution to the YouView set top box venture by 85 per cent to around £750,000, (€883,000) leaving BT and TalkTalk to plug the funding gap. ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and the BBC have been concerned that a platform originally created to give […]
blinkbox, the on-demand movie and TV service from UK retailer Tesco, is responding to the challenge of delivering an experience that is consistent both in terms of reliability and ensuring that movies look great, regardless of the device they’re played on, by using the latest Microsoft Azure cloud technology. According to Jon Robinson, Group Head […]
Modern Times Group (MTG), the international entertainment group, has announced that its Viaplay online pay-TV business and MTGx digital accelerator will merge to create a digital entertainment powerhouse under the leadership of Rikard Steiber, MTG Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer. Viaplay, which was launched in 2011, is MTG’s largest digital business and offers […]