Virgin Media and Universal Pictures are teaming up to launch PictureBox, a movies-on-demand TV subscription service. From July, the PictureBox service will be available to Virgin Media’s 3.6 million TV subscribers for £5 (E5.87) per month, and will provide a selection of recent and library feature films. Subscribers will be able to view films from […]
SeaChange International, provider of software and hardware solutions for VOD television, has announced financial results for its fiscal 2010 first quarter ended April 30th, 2009. Total revenues for the quarter were $48.9 million, which was $3.5 million or 8per cent higher than total revenues of $45.4 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2009. Net […]
Orange is to launch a VOD site in France called Welles (after Orson Welles), offering "mid-tail" recent archive shows. Most videos (500,000 at launch) will be ad-supported but some premium content is planned.
A footnote in the Digital Britain report recommends £30m (E36m) be set aside for research by its Technology Strategy Board (one of several new bodies it recommends to take up tasks outlined in the Report). One of the TSB's priorities is collaborative research on a consolidated micropayment scheme for VOD. While its preamble to the […]
Since launching its on-demand television wholesaling business using technology and services from SeaChange International less than two years ago, Japanese telecommunications giant KDDI is now enabling 17 cable television operators across the country to offer on-demand movies and television to their viewers. KDDI is currently offering more than 6,000 titles regional and international on-demand content […]
The BBC Trust has delayed its decision on the go-ahead of the BBC lead Project Canvas as it calls on more detail from BBC executives and their partners BT and ITV. The Trust, which had decided there was no need for a commercial impact assessment, was due to make a decision in July, however all […]
C4 is to put its back catalogue online free of charge – giving viewers the chance to watch every episode of its homegrown shows. From July, more than 4,000 hours of the channel’s archived content – about 10,000 programme titles – will be added to the 4oD catchup service. The catchup service currently offers viewers […]
The BBC has revealed plans for the next-generation of its online video service, the iPlayer, which include increased functionality and recommendation possibilities. The BBC's Director of Future Media and Technology, Eric Huggers, told members of the Broadcasting Press Guild that the new service would be as much a "you player as an iPlayer." Among the […]
Video search engine blinkx has struck a deal with interactive TV company Miniweb that will see its services become available on digital set-top boxes in the UK. The deal will significantly widen the audience for blinkx’s search offering, which indexes a range of online video content, including content from YouTube and the various web TV […]
BSkyB has heavily criticised the BBC Trust’s decision not to conduct a full market impact review of Project Canvas, the broadband TV joint venture with ITV and BT, and says the Trust needs to demonstrate it is genuinely independent of the service it is meant to regulate. Sky also believes the project, which aims to […]