NDS has announced the provision of an end-to-end suite of technologies to cable operator Kabel BW, enabling the launch of the operator’s VOD service. Kabel BW’s new DVB-C-based VOD system is based on NDS’ MediaHighway STB software and VOD technology. The launch of the new service in December provided Kabel BW subscribers with instant access […]
The Virgin Media Entertainment Index reveals 2010 was a record breaking year for On Demand viewing, with just under 900 million programmes watched in total – a 10 per cent increase on the previous record, set in 2009. Virgin Media’s On Demand service is the third most watched ‘channel’ on the platform with customers, on […]
Google’s YouTube is planning an unlimited subscription service for movies to take on Netflix and Amazon and the UK will be the test bed says a report in the New York Post. Google has been talking with Hollywood studios for months and is looking to launch the streaming service first in the UK and Europe […]
Western Poland’s largest telecom operator is now live to subscribers with its Wypoz˙yczalnia Filmów VOD service, which is built upon a comprehensive solution from SeaChange|eventIS, the multi-screen video software company. Available commercially since the end of 2010, INEA’s VOD service is running on the open converged Service Delivery Platform (cSDP) from SeaChange|eventIS, which also served […]
CBS and Netflix have announced a two-year, non-exclusive licensing agreement that will allow select TV shows from CBS’s library as well as full seasons of classics to be streamed instantly from Netflix. CBS retains an option to extend the agreement for up to two additional years. Beginning in early April, dozens of shows from CBS […]
Italy’s Mediaset has said it will boost its pay-TV products with the launch of a new hybrid system of broadcast and broadband. Mediaset said the new product, called Premium Net TV, is based on a digital terrestrial decoder that can be used with a broadband connection. It will allow customers to get free access to […]
Amazon’s TV service has gone live to its ‘prime’ customers who pay $79 a year for free two-day shipping. They can now choose from 5,000 TV shows and movies such as to stream to PCs or connected devices. The move ramps up the battle with Netflix which has a subscriber base of 20 million. Amazon […]
Sky’s response to the BBC Trust on the syndication guidelines for BBC on-demand television content heavily criticises the decision to limit the content to BBC “aggregation products”, i.e. YouView / iPlayer. Sky says “[we] support the wide distribution of BBC public service content, including BBC on-demand content” but added “the fundamental principle of broad distribution […]
VOD operators must pay more to be regulated because the new co-regulatory body got its budgeting wrong. The Association for Television On-Demand (ATVOD) estimated running costs for its first year (2010-2011) would be £426,388, (€505,000) covered by charging fees to VOD operators. But now it says there is “uncertainty” over how many VOD operators will […]
On Demand Group, the global VOD aggregator and subsidiary of SeaChange, and Inview Technology (Inview), have announced an agreement to launch both transactional VOD and subscription VOD services on millions of connected TV sets in major European countries, starting in Italy in the second quarter of this year. Inview’s NEELiX platform is incorporated in millions […]