Indian OTT entertainment platform Eros Now, and multinational professional services network KPMG in India have published an in-depth report on India’s OTT market which projects that India will have more than 500 million online video subscribers by FY 2023, making it the second biggest market in the world after China. According to the study, 87 […]
South Korean telco SK Telecom has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Samsung Electronics jointly to develop and commercialise the world’s first 5G-8K TV. The 5G-8K TV will revolutionise users’ television-watching experience by directly receiving 8K video over SK Telecom’s ultra-low latency and ultra-wideband 5G network. SK Telecom plans to apply Mobile Edge Computing […]
Roku is further expanding the Roku TV licensing programme to Europe. Hisense is the first European Roku TV partner and is expected to launch Roku TV models in the UK later this autumn. TV makers can license Roku TV reference designs and use the Roku OS to quickly build leading smart TVs. Roku TV was […]
The HbbTV Association, a global initiative dedicated to providing open standards for the delivery of advanced interactive TV services through broadcast and broadband networks for connected TV sets and set-top boxes, has published the HbbTV specification for phase 2 of application discovery over broadband (ADB). This specification has been developed for markets in which set-top […]
Last week saw moments of high drama in the UK House of Commons as Parliament returned from its summer recess. According to data analysis from Limelight Networks, the extraordinary political events caused significant Internet traffic spikes as people streamed the major moments of the day. On September 3rd, Limelight saw 343 per cent increase in […]
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), the Nordic region’s leading streaming company, will launch its Viaplay streaming service in Iceland in the first half of 2020. Viaplay will now be available to viewers in all five Nordic countries. Viaplay already has more than 1.4 million paying subscribers across the region and offers viewers a unique combination […]
Video infrastructure provider Bitmovin has revealed its annual Video Developer Report, which suggests that latency is the most significant issue faced by over half (54 per cent) of video developers. “The Bitmovin Video Developer Report is
Viaccess-Orca (VO), a provider of OTT and TV platforms, content protection, and advanced data solutions, has partnered with Zodiac Systems, a specialist in cloud and device video service-delivery software. The partnership will offer a joint solution making it easier and more cost-effective for TV operators to deploy VO’s cloud-hosted TVaaS and Service Delivery Platform (SDP) […]
Amazon has announced a lineup of more than 15 new Fire TV Edition products for customers around the globe, including the first Fire TV Edition smart TV with built-in far-field voice control, the first OLED Fire TV Edition smart TV, and the first-ever Fire TV Edition soundbar. “Customers have told us how much they use […]
Analysis by media analyst firm Ampere has predicted where the next Netflix originals are likely to be produced. A number of Netflix markets appear to be underweight in terms of their local original production activity relative to the importance of the market to Netflix. Other markets that have yet to receive local production investment are […]