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LOVEFiLM app for iPod, iPhone

Amazon’s LOVEFiLM has launched its new LOVEFiLM Instant app for iPhone and iPod touch. This enhanced app allows members in the UK to stream the latest films and TV series from the LOVEFiLM Instant catalogue on their iPhone and iPod touch for the first time. Along with a slick new design, the updated app also […]

November 15, 2013

C Media investment boosts YOU On Demand

YOU On Demand, a multi-platform entertainment and VoD company in China, has released its unaudited operating results for the three-month period ended September 30th 2013. On November 5th, the company announced that C Media Limited, a China-based mobile video service provider, raised its aggregate strategic investment in YOU On Demand to $6 million, with an […]

November 15, 2013

On-demand TV in demand, HD & 3D failing to impress

HD and 3D TV are failing to impress, as the UK’s TV viewers put digital recording features, on-demand content and subscription-free viewing on their list of ‘must have’ TV features, according to research from set-top box provider Humax. The survey of 2,000 UK adults reveals

November 13, 2013

Major makeover for Netflix UI

Online entertainment service Netflix has unveiled what it describes as the biggest update to its TV experience in the service’s history, a “radically new look” that makes Netflix on TVs a much richer and more immersive experience, according to the company. The new design was created specifically for the big screen, featuring multiple cinematic images […]

November 13, 2013By Colin Mann

Deutsche Telekom powers Swiss VoD

Deutsche Telekom Business Development & Innovation (BDI), has announced that Teleboy, Switzerland’s leading live streaming service, is the first customer of VideoRise, BDI’s recently launched online video platform powered by Saffron Digital. Teleboy is using VideoRise to launch Teleboy VoD, Switzerland’s first subscription VoD service, available on iPhone, iPad, and the Web with more than […]

November 13, 2013

Netflix joins Virgin Media TiVo

Netflix is now available through Virgin Media’s TiVo platform. New and existing customers who sign up to one of Virgin’s Premiere or VIP Collections will receive a six-month subscription to the on-demand service for free. “With the addition of our Netflix app, Virgin Media customers have an unbeatable line-up of movies and TV series to […]

November 12, 2013

Deutsche Telekom renews TV streaming with Norigin

Norigin Media, a TV Everywhere Company that enables multi-screen TV services and products, has announced the renewal of its long-term contract with DTAG (Deutsche Telekom) for Streaming TV and VoD across mobile devices. The contract includes the continued use of Norigin Media’sTV and VoD Client Applications and Live Hosted Headend across mobiles and tablets. Norigin […]

November 12, 2013

Digisoft supports content distribution in South Africa

Digisoft.tv (Ireland) and Discover Digital (South Africa) have signed a development and agency agreement at Africa Com, in the presence of the Irish Minister for Trade and Development Joe Costello T.D, who is leading an Enterprise Ireland Trade Mission to South Africa and Nigeria. The focus of the mission will be growth sectors such as […]

November 12, 2013

FreeviewPlus HbbTV for Australia

In what it describes as one of the most important developments in its five year history, Australian DTT platform Freeview has announced plans to unveil the most advanced free-to-air EPG service ever seen in Australia with the launch of FreeviewPlus in the first half of 2014. The FreeviewPlus service will provide Australian viewers with a […]

November 11, 2013By Colin Mann

PS4 premium TV app from EPIX

Premium entertainment network EPIX, the joint venture between Viacom, its Paramount Pictures unit, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Lionsgate, has confirmed the availability of the EPIX app on the PlayStation4 (PS4) system in November 2013. EPIX will be the first premium TV network to launch an authenticated app on the new PS4 system expanding the network’s current […]

November 8, 2013