Pro-copyright consumer education body the Industry Trust for IP Awareness has revealed a new marketing strategy for movie search website findanyfilm.com, which will see the site form powerful alliances with the UK’s leading publishers. From March 2013, the website’s database, which offers live film availability for more than 40,000 titles across all viewing formats, will […]
Not content with launching a channel dedicated to the world’s most enduring spy with its Sky Movies 007 service, Sky has revealed that it is working with Disney to create a brand new television channel, Sky Movies Disney, further strengthening its hold on premium film and TV content. The new channel will be the home […]
A third of Germans aged 16-29 are increasingly using time-shifted Internet TV services rather than broadcast channels, according to a survey carried out by Ipsos for Kabel Deutschland (KDG). About 70 per cent of young adults accessed online services via a smartphone, compared with 47 per cent of the population as a whole and only […]
Numerous Hindi and Bollywood films are now available on FindAnyFilm.com, the easy-to-use gateway to legitimate film, TV and video services, with online pay-per-view digital movie distribution business Sanona becoming the first in a host of new legal film providers to take advantage of the site’s unique proposition, following its transfer to the Industry Trust late […]
John Farrel, a YouTube regional director, has made a bold prediction saying that by 2020 some 75 per cent of audiovisual content will be consumed via broadband. Farrel is YouTube’s Latin America director, and while he didn’t quite claim that YouTube would be the dominant supplier, he stated that “TV has been the leading media […]
The BBC Trust has commissioned a review to examine whether the way the BBC distributes its content provides good value for money for licence fee payers. The work is being undertaken by specialist media consultancy Mediatique and will look into the BBC’s UK distribution activities, from ‘traditional’ methods such as television and radio, to the […]
Slow and jerky online video could become a thing of the past should the efforts of Internet researchers in seeking to make the web faster bear fruit. Researchers at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland are involved in a project that aims to significantly reduce online delay, or latency, without the need to invest in […]
Further reinforcing its programming repertoire in its online entertainment sector battle with players such as Netflix, Amazon.com has secured an expanded content licensing agreement to bring classic series and hit TV shows from CBS Television Distribution and Showtime Networks to Amazon’s Prime Instant Video service, extending the catalogue of CBS content available for Prime members […]
IGN Entertainment, the video games media company, has launched a new IGN app on Roku streaming devices. The new IGN channel on Roku gives customers access to hours of IGN’s content, from original series to video reviews and game help videos, to exclusive live streams and more. Roku joins iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, YouTube and […]
Chip maker Intel has confirmed that it is working on a set-top box that would stream content to connected TV sets. Speaking at AllThingsDigital’s ‘Dive Into Media’ conference, Erik Huggers, general manager of Intel Media, suggested the device would offer “a vastly superior experience” to today’s cable STBs. Although Intel is traditionally a business-facing company […]