Sky has confirmed that its catch-up services will expand to include 12 new channels before the end of the year – including Discovery, TLC, E!, Star, Watch, GOLD, Dave, Alibi, Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Cartoonito and Sky News. The satellite broadcaster has also beefed up the Sky Box Set Collection, which is available for Sky+HD box […]
The BBC has released iPlayer performance figures for August 2013: The online catch-up service recorded 234 million requests in August, up up 19 per cent on this time last year. Mobile and tablet requests made up 32 per cent of total BBC iPlayer requests – equalling the record set in June this year August saw […]
Australian TV network Ten has launched a new and improved website and app – tenplay – as the first phase of its TV everywhere strategy. The tenplay app is available now on Apple iOS and Sony Bravia, and the Android version will be available later this year. tenplay will also be deployed on hybrid broadcast […]
Ofcom has today upheld an appeal by Playboy TV UK / Benelux Limited in relation to two decisions by the Authority for Television On Demand (ATVOD) – which is responsible for regulating the editorial content of certain on-demand programmes services On September 17th 2012, ATVOD determined that Playboy TV UK / Benelux Limited provided two […]
TalkTalk has confirmed the launch of its Essentials TV proposition. Aimed at Freeview customers looking for a little extra TV but who don’t want to pay a lot, it gives viewers access to catch-up TV via a smaller, lower cost YouView set top box, for £7.50 a month. This is a headline price, not a […]
Subscribers to Sweden’s Com Hem pay-TV service will soon be able to access Netflix through TiVo set-top boxes, the second partnership between a European cable provider and the streaming service. Com Hem has confirmed that Netflix will be available in December through TiVo boxes, allowing subscribers to watch the streaming service’s shows and movies through […]
Billing itself as a “game-changer” in the sector, Wuaki.tv from the Japanese organisation Rakuten Japan, is a hybrid business model offering users a choice of a la carte rental of the latest movies and TV series, or a monthly subscription to the Wuaki Choice service, providing limitless streaming of a wide selection of film and […]
Kaleidescape has announced that the Kaleidescape Store, the online store that enables consumers to download movies with video and audio quality equal to Blu-ray Disc and DVD, is now available in Canada. The new service was launched in the US in December 2012, and in the UK in May 2013, and is initially backed by […]
Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel, which launched its Foxtel Play OTT service to connected device mid-summer, is further strengthening its armoury against existing and potential subscription TV sector players by revealing details of a video-on-demand platform offering extensive movie content over the Internet. The new – dubbed ‘Presto’ – is a pre-emptive strike against mooted similar […]
Research from Nielsen estimates that 38 per cent of Americans now “use or subscribe to” Netflix – a significant increase on the 2012 figure of 31 per cent. The findings from the US research and ratings firm also reveal that 18 per cent of Americans use Hulu, up 6 per cent on last year, with […]