Belgian telco Belgacom has launched TV Replay, a new, exclusive service which allows Belgacom TV customers to watch programmes up to 36 hours after they’ve been broadcast, on their TV, computer, tablet or smartphone. In the first phase, TV Replay will offer six channels, and on 15 April, seven other channels will be added. Following […]
Full year TV viewing figures for 2013 compiled by Thinkbox – the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK – show that the TV set remains the centre of people’s TV viewing, accounting for 98.5 per cent of total viewing. Non-TV set screens such as tablets and laptops accounted for the remaining 1.5 per […]
Sky customers can now access even more TV box sets on demand, including full series of 24, Modern Family, Girls and Bones. This builds on the rapid expansion of the service throughout 2013, during which time the number of hours of TV box sets available on Sky has more than doubled. TV fans are now […]
Arris has published the results of a study into consumer preferences during Valentine’s nights in. The survey of 1,000 UK consumers found that:
Comcast has signed an agreement with Warner Bros to start selling the studio’s titles through the Xfinity On Demand digital store. Effective immediately, Xfinity TV customers in the US will be able to purchase Warner Bros. movies and TV shows to own and access anytime, anywhere, on any device, often several weeks ahead of DVD […]
LOVEFiLM, an Amazon company, and Warner Bros International Television Distribution have announced a German subscription video on demand (SVoD) deal to bring several popular kids shows from Warner Bros Animation to stream instantly. Among the newly added SVoD titles are cartoon classics like Tom and Jerry and The Sylvester and Tweety Show as well as […]
Comcast has signed an agreement with Warner Bros to start selling the studio’s titles through the Xfinity On Demand digital store. Effective immediately, Xfinity TV customers in the US are able to purchase Warner Bros movies and TV shows to own and access anytime, anywhere, on any device, often several weeks ahead of DVD release. […]
Wowza Media Systems, a provider of Simply Powerful Streaming media server software, has launched its new Wowza Streaming Engine, with more powerful performance capabilities and a new intuitive management interface for easily deploying, managing and monitoring live and VoD streaming to any device. The customisable and scalable Wowza Streaming Engine software is the newest version […]
The BBC, Channel 4 and ITV are joining forces to establish a new service to make their catch-up TV services – BBC iPlayer, ITV Player and 4oD – available as standard on all smart TVs. It was originally envisaged that YouView would be used as the future brand and technology for public service broadcasting, eventually […]
State-owned TV group RTVE, operator of La 1 and La 2 among other TV channels, has launched a VoD service in Spain with a catalogue of over 5,000 documentaries available on all distribution platforms (mobiles, tablets, Smart TVs, Internet) claiming to be the largest VoD doc offer in Spanish in the world. Called “Somos Documentales” […]