According to Sandy Howe, SVP, Global Marketing, ARRIS, a number of key findings from the firm’s recently-published Consumer Entertainment Index suggest that Service Providers should take advantage of additional monetisation opportunities based on their pay-TV subscribers’ entertainment consumption habits, expectations and needs. She told media delegates at ARRIS’s Video Leadership Forum that 30 per cent […]

Findings from a survey conducted by streaming specialist Wowza Media Systems have revealed that consumers expect consistent video experiences across all their video-capable devices. According to the survey, conducted at

Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from its latest Broadcast and Streaming Video Equipment and Pay TV Subscribers report, which tracks pay-TV subscribers and video equipment sold to telco IPTV, cable, and satellite TV providers.

Massive Interactive, a specialist in platform software and design for multiscreen TV Everywhere entertainment, has rolled out the Deutsche Telekom Videoload service across Panasonic 2014 Smart TVs. Following on from the successful launch of Videoload on LG Smart TVs, Massive continued working with Deutsche Telekom to deliver the next phase of its device roadmap. The […]

Watching a live stream of a movie can be more energy-efficient than watching the movie on DVD, according to a new study by researchers at Northwestern University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory commissioned by Google. The researchers studied five different ways of viewing movies and, using a systematic method called life cycle analysis, estimated the […]

Amazon and CBS Studios have annoucned that sci-fi drama Extant, produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television, will premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Instant Video in the UK. The first episode of Extant premieres on Prime Instant Video on July 10th, the day after the US premiere on CBS. New episodes will be available to stream […]

OTT streaming TV platform 1 Mainstream has announced it was named a Cool Vendor in Gartner’s ‘Cool Vendors in Media, 2014,’ authored by Allen Weiner, Mike McGuire and Andrew Frank. According to Gartner, regarding the companies they have selected this year, “all deal with issues of disruption in the areas of creation, distribution and monetisation. […]