French broadcaster TF1 is considering launching a subscription-VoD service. CEO Nonce Paolini said that a subscription-VoD service was one of several projects TF1 was considering. According to French newspaper Les Echos, Paolini also said the possible revival of discussions last year to form a partnership with rival broadcaster M6 for an SVOD service was “an […]
Netflix Open Connect, the single purpose video content delivery network launched last year, is now delivering the majority of Netflix international traffic and is growing at a rapid pace in the domestic market. In early 2012 Netflix began enabling Internet service providers (ISPs) to receive, at no cost to them, Netflix video directly at […]
Consumer spending on home entertainment in 2012 in the US rose for the first time in five years, albeit marginally, coming in at just over $18 billion according the Year-End 2012 Home Entertainment Report compiled by members of trade body DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group, tracking sources and retail input. According to the DEG, resilience, […]
Lord Sugar was paid £500,000 (€615,000) to chair YouView, as staff costs totalled over £3 million. YouView – a joint venture between the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, BT, Arqiva and TalkTalk – paid Sugar £500,000 for the year to the end of March 2012, according to its financial filing at Companies House. The […]
M-GO, the digital entertainment service joint venture between DreamWorks Animation and Technicolor, has confirmed its launch into public beta. M-GO’s pay-as-you-go streaming service helps people find, rent, buy and enjoy digital entertainment on the devices they use and choose – TVs, iPads, tablets, Blu-ray players, streaming players, Macs, PCs and soon game consoles and smartphones. […]
AT&T is offering U-verse TV customers in the US a new way to watch movies across screens with AT&T U-verse Screen Pack. Available for $5 a month, U-verse TV Screen Pack customers get unlimited, instant playback of an extensive library of movies on U-verse TV, Uverse.com and on the U-verse app for tablets and smartphones. […]
The surprising news emerged late January 4th that Jason Kilar, the CEO of studio-backed Internet streaming service Hulu – the US joint venture of Disney, Fox Broadcasting and NBCUniversal -is step down from his role. Rich Tom, Hulu’s CTO, is also leaving the company. In a blog, Kilar wrote: “Earlier today, I sent the below […]
The BBC recorded 77 million iPlayer requests for TV and radio programmes from December 22nd to January 1st – 32 per cent up on a similar 11-day period last year, when it reported 58.4 million requets. iPlayer traffic peaked on New Year’s Day with a record 6.7 million requests for TV programmes, up from a […]
A failure in Amazon cloud services hit Netflix users in the US, Canada and Latin America on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day claims the online movie rental company. The failure affected various devices ranging from gaming consoles such as the Nintendo Wii and PlayStation 3 to Blu-ray DVD players according to Netflix. Some other devices […]
OTT video supplier Hulu is asking its key shareholders for an additional $200 million in order to fund overseas expansion and to secure more programming rights. Hulu’s three shareholders, Disney, News Corp and Comcast are being asked to fund around $200 million, according to the Wall Street Journal, despite the five-year venture remaining unprofitable to […]