The arrival of the latest season of Game of Thrones on blinkbox helped the Tesco-owned movie and TV streaming service to a record breaking day on July 15th. Fans who missed out on the show when it was aired on Sky Atlantic earlier in the year have flocked to the service to see the Great […]
PlayOn, the media server software from MediaMall Technologies that streams online videos to TVs and mobile devices, has confirmed the launch of the PlayOn app for the BlackBerry 10 platform. For the first time, BlackBerry 10 customers in the US and Canada can watch content from Hulu, Netflix and HBO GO on their smartphone. By […]
Envivio, a provider of software-based live and on-demand delivery solutions, has revealed that Volia, a Ukraine pay-TV operator, has selected Envivio Muse transcoders for its new OTT Internet TV services. Volia’s transcoding solution runs on the 4Caster G4 platform, Envivio’s high performance computing appliance for broadcast and multi-screen video processing. Envivio was selected by Volia […]
Just as it seemed the race to purchase online entertainment service Hulu was entering the final straight, its three owners – Fox, Disney and NBCUniversal – have called off their planned sale and announced that they will invest $750 million in the service. The move represents the second time Hulu has been taken ‘off the […]
Research from comScore reveals that 16 per cent of Canadian adults say they no longer watch any traditional TV and exclusively stream content online. The findings also show that 45 per cent of respondents say they watch both TV and online video content, 35 per cent just watch TV and 4 per cent watch neither. […]
Also at Sun Valley Malone told Reuters that all US MSOs would benefit from owning the online streaming service Hulu. Yahoo, AT&T and Time Warner Cable, have been linked to bids for Hulu, with US pay TV operator DirecTV said to be ahead of the pack. Malone siad: “On their own, if they were the […]
Media technology and content distribution specialist Vision247 has been selected by ViewSat, a provider of video distribution services, as its partner for provision of web streaming services to its extensive customer-base of television channels. ViewSat is a fast growing global satellite provider serving Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, Europe and North America with television and […]
Rovi Corporation, driving digital entertainment innovation, has announced that Freescale Semiconductor is releasing an Android chipset certified for DivX Plus Streaming. The Freescale i.MX 6Quad applications processor with Android Integrated Circuit (IC) is designed for use in a broad range of consumer electronics (CE) products running the Android operating system and provides a path for […]
Three bidders are chasing Hulu’s name and assets according to reports – with suggestions that DirecTV is one of the trio prepared to pay well over $1 billion for the US OTT service. Two consortia are also in the bidding pool. Former News Corp executive Peter Chernin is linking with telco giant AT&T to make […]
Innovation is critical to telco survival, finds Ovum. Yet many operators miss the big picture, exaggerate the threat from OTT players, and misunderstand the broader benefits of innovation. New research from the analyst firm examined more than 3,500 new service launches since 2009, finding that telcos must compete less and collaborate more. When comparing telcos’ […]