Western Digital, a specialist in external storage solutions and maker of the popular WD TV media player family, is making the Hulu Plus subscription service available to its WD TV Live Plus and WD TV Live Hub family of media players. WD TV customers can now watch hit TV shows, movies and catch up on […]
New deals with digital distributors helped CBS increase its second quarter revenues and profits. The US TV group’s revenues from content licensing and distribution were $889 million for the three months ended June 30, a 21 per cent rise from the same time a year earlier. CBS is receiving about $200 million from Netflix over […]
Monaco Telecom is preparing to launch a new service enabling customers to view its IPTV video on demand service on other wireless-enabled devices such as tablet computers. Monaco Telecom will be the first telecoms operator to provide the nCloud, a multimedia server created by specialist IPTV set-top box provider Netgem. Monaco Telecom launched an IPTV […]
Smart TV applications publisher Flingois teaming up with Syabas, a global distributor of digital entertainment solutions, to bring Flingo’s open source project, Fling, to Syabas’s Popbox and Popcorn Hour set-top boxes. Consumers with these devices can now ‘fling’ videos and music directly from the Web to their TV. This partnership, adds more devices to Flingo, […]
DVD sales have seen a 5.7 per cent fall in revenue to just more than £1bn for the UK video entertainment sector in the first half of the year. Spending on digital viewing via download and streaming services to portable devices rose 18 per cent year on year, according to figures from the British Video […]
Central European Media Enterprises (CME) has confirmed that Voyo, its pan regional video-on-demand brand, has been launched in Romania. Through Voyo, Romanian viewers can now access catch-up TV from PRO TV’s archives, see local shows for free immediately after broadcasting, and watch live events such as Champions League Football. Viewers can also pay to see […]
Rentrak, a specialist in multi-screen media measurement serving the advertising, television and movie industries, has signed an exclusive, long-term multi-platform VoD reporting agreement with Digital+, the Spanish broadband TV provider. Digital+ (PRISA Group’s audiovisual holding company) was the first company to introduce interactive systems, including digital television and VoD, and is now leading the charge […]
Following comments made earlier in the year by BBC Director General Mark Thompson that an international version of the iPlayer app would be made available later in 2011 for “a small number of dollars per month, definitely fewer than ten”, BBC Worldwide, the BBC’s commercial arm, has confirmed that it is now offering audiences across […]
Eurosport and Ziggo have extended and expanded their distribution agreement for Eurosport and Eurosport HD in the Netherlands, as well as the new Dutch language version of Eurosport 2, Eurosport 2 HD and Eurosport’s catch-up TV service. Eurosport 2, which includes the recently acquired exclusive rights for Bundesliga football, will now be one of the […]
Avail-TVN, the digital media services company, has announced an expanded, long-term agreement with Stingray Digital, a specialist in interactive music services. The agreement builds on the success of the Karaoke Channel On Demand, owned and operated by Stingray Digital and licensed and delivered exclusively through Avail-TVN. The expanded agreement continues Avail-TVN’s role in providing a […]