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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
With limited broadband capacity affecting television consumption across Africa, the region will soon have access to far more content and customised services by using satellite broadcast capacity to provide Video on Demand (VOD). Global connected set-top box manufacturer Dune HD has partnered with French VOD technology provider Quadrille to create a receiver able to download […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Walt Disney Company and Netflix have revealed an unprecedented deal for Marvel TV to make multiple original series of live-action adventures of four of Marvel’s most popular characters for Netflix, beginning in 2015. Led by a series focused on Daredevil, followed by Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage, the narrative will unfold over […]
With access to OTT subscription based video on-demand (SVoD) services more easily and readily available due to the integration of smart TVs as the main TV in many consumers’ homes, OTT SVoD services are gaining in popularity. Offering a cheaper media source with a competitive breadth of video content, subscriptions are increasing as these services […]