Advanced video services provider Avail-TVN is to provide content for the Google Fiber broadband TV service. Launched in July 2012 in Kansas City, Google Fiber offers connection speeds 100 times faster than traditional broadband and delivers both Internet and TV into the home. Avail-TVN will provide a range of content including studio, broadcast and cable […]
SmarDTV and Nagra, both Kudelski Group companies and Samsung Electronics have successfully combined CI Plus and HbbTV with DRM to enable video-on-demand for OTT networks directly to iDTVs without the use of a STB. The system integrates the Nagra Gravity User Interface running in HbbTV on Samsung 2012 TV models allowing Nagra PRM protected content […]
BeBanjo has been chosen by BT Vision to help mange its VoD offering across multiple platforms. BeBanjo’s products will help BT Vision to its VoD services to its 700’000+ subscribers with more control and efficiency in several aspects including rights, scheduling, operational workflow and metadata. “Over the past 3 years the amount of content we […]
TeliaSonera and HBO Nordic have signed an agreement enabling TeliaSonera’s TV customers to see a number of the acclaimed TV series the day after the US premiere of each episode. The service will be available as of mid-October via both on TV as well as online. The service will be priced at less than €10. […]
KnowHow Movies, the digital entertainment service from Dixons Retail, owner of UK and Ireland retailers Currys and PC World, is now available on a range of new platforms and devices, offering customers more ways to purchase, rent, and enjoy film and TV entertainment from major Hollywood and leading TV studios. Following the mid-August announcement that […]
Logiways, a leading vendor of Secure VoD Content Broadcast Delivery Platforms, announced that it has selected Cognik’s CogniKuest Recommendation Engine to power its next generation VodAccess VoD Delivery Platform for Broadcasters and Non-Linear TV Operators. Says Joel Minot, VP of Marketing at Logiways “Our Broadcast Customers demand a VoD experience that is as advanced as […]
ASA, the UK advertising watchdog, has ordered BSkyB to stop exaggerating the speed of its film download service, after rival BT complained its claim that it was “instant” was misleading. BSkyB ran a press ad promoting its new film rental service, Sky Store, marketing it as a “movie store in your home – available instantly […]
STV’s video on-demand service is now available through YouView, the BBC-backed hybrid Freeview set top box. The Scottish broadcaster’s VoD app is available to access for YouView customers in STV licence areas of Scotland. Viewers can watch STV programmes live and also catch up on shows from the ITV Network, such as Coronation Street and […]
In a move that will help forestall pirating of its big ticket shows, Australian broadcaster ABC is to premiere the first episode of season seven of Doctor Who – Asylum of the Daleks – on its online service iview Sunday September 2 from 5.10am EST immediately after its UK launch on September 1. ABC1 Controller […]
The chief content officer of Netflix has defended it from accusations that it is paying uneconomically high rates as part of a land grab in the UK VoD market. Ted Sarandos told the Guardian that Netflix was prepared to pay a “tremendous amount of money” for the exclusive rights to show popular films and TV […]