Netflix is now streaming content in 4K with the second season of its original drama House of Cards. In a blog post, Netflix said that although its catalogue of Ultra-HD content is currently small, it expects to add more 4K content and increase the number of devices it can be accessed on later this year. […]
People who illegally download billions of pounds worth of movies also love going to the cinema and don’t mind paying to watch movies, according to recent academic research published in the Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Economics. In the first study to examine the differences between movie and music pirates, the key finding was those […]
Parks Associates research shows Amazon has made significant gains in the OTT video market as nearly 20 per cent of all US broadband households now have an Amazon Prime Instant Video subscription. The Q1 2014 survey of 10,000
In a move set to complete its transition from a largely VoD-focused company to one that has an equal emphasis on live/linear programming and an authenticated Pay OTT TV experience, open source video platform Kaltura has acquired Tvinci, the provider of Pay OTT TV services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Kaltura says the […]
Barry Diller, the main backer of Internet TV streaming service Aereo, has described the tactics of the US broadcasters in the US Supreme Court copyright case as “obnoxious” and warned that stopping the service was stopping technology. “Aereo has been criticised as a gimmick, as a way of avoiding copyright rules. In fact, it was […]
Sony has confirmed a deal with Sky that will see the Sky Go and Now TV services become available on the PlayStation 4. Now TV will launch this summer and Sky Go ‘later this year’. Now TV offers live streaming and on-demand content from a selection of Sky channels and has been available on PlayStation […]
Research from Informa and AirTies Wireless Networks shows that 67 per cent of satellite and cable service providers see inconsistent wireless coverage as a major barrier to delivering video services in the home. The global survey of 235 senior industry cable and satellite operators, telecom service providers, mobile operators, OTT consumer IP service providers and […]
S4C – the national television channel for Wales – has launched on OTT platform TVPlayer, making it available to a wider audience throughout the UK. TVPlayer has proven itself to be the fastest growing mobile TV service in the UK, having grown by a million users since it launched at the beginning 2014. The addition […]
Comcast and MGM Television (MGM) have agreed a deal that will see MGM content available through the Xfinity On Demand digital store. Xfinity TV customers can own and access movies anytime, anywhere, on any device, often before the DVD release. MGM titles to be added to the Xfinity On Demand store will include: Bull Durham, […]
In a new national survey conducted by strategic research, marketing and brand consultancy Miner & Co. Studio, seven out of 10 US TV viewers consider themselves binge-viewers – an activity that the same percentage of respondents says is “addictive”. The study – Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: Binge-Viewing Is our New Favorite Addiction – identifies binge-viewing […]