YouView has published its draft User Interface and Search Policy for consultation with industry, setting out how content will be presented to viewers in a way that makes it easy for them to discover. The policy also details YouView’s approach to allocating EPG positions to video on demand content providers in the YouView User Interface. […]
Amazon.com has revealed a licensing agreement with Fox that will allow Amazon Prime members to stream instantly a broad selection of popular movies and TV shows from the Fox library. This deal will bring the total number of Prime instant videos to more than 11,000 movies and TV shows later this fall. FOX titles available […]
Mexico’s Maxcom Telecomunicaciones is set to launch an online video and live television rental service using a technology that allows streaming with a very low broadband speed. The telco already offers phone and Internet services in Mexico, where it has around 100,000 broadband users, The service will pitch it into competition with Netflix’s recently-launched operation […]
Facebook has unveiled more partnerships with major media companies in what looks like a bid to transform the world’s biggest social network into a key entertainment hub. As reported here on Tuesday, Facebook will launch a real-time stream of what its users are watching and listening to online. The social network will introduce the […]
Hulu now has more than one million paying subscribers, Chief Executive Jason Kilar has told a Goldman Sachs conference. He confirmed that it reached that milestone at the end of the summer and the site is now on its way to easily exceed that number by year’s end. Hulu launched a subscription tier last November […]
YouView TV, the joint venture between the BBC, ITV, BT, Channel 4, TalkTalk, Arqiva and Channel 5 announced the appointment of Chris Bramley as Chief Technology Officer. As CTO, Bramley will take immediate responsibility for YouView’s technical team and delivering the venture’s overall technology strategy. Bramley was responsible for designing and delivering the first OTT […]
Polish pay TV operator Cyfra Plus has confirmed plans to enhance its service later with the launch of a 3D channel, expanded HD line-up and a free web TV service. The operator has already aired some 3D content but is planning on increasing its output, including additional sports events and at least two movies in […]
Netflix and Discovery Communications have made an agreement to bring episodes of shows including “Man vs. Wild” and “River Monsters” to the streaming service. The deal is the first major move by Discovery to make full episodes of its TV shows available for instant streaming, expanding well beyond the short clips that are now available […]
The BBC has launched a new version of its homepage in beta. The emphasis is shifted from news, sport and weather to the iPlayer, which was still in its infancy when the current homepage was launched in 2008. The new site is clearly built for the tablet age. The entire homepage fits inside the screen […]
US telco SureWest Communications has upgraded its VoD service, enabling it to launch an on-screen commerce application branded ‘Watch & Buy’ that enables subscribers to purchase DVDs and Blu-ray discs for home delivery. The telco has upgraded its VoD platform to the latest generation of SeaChange International’s VoD software applications platform, VoDlink 5.0. SureWest will […]