Ownership of Connected TV devices (including smart TVs, smart blu-ray players, IP-enabled game consoles and digital media streamers) in the US grew 5 per cent quarter-on-quarter in Q3 2014 and 28 per cent year-on-year to reach 168 million units. Fuelled by a desire to watch video content delivered via the open Internet, the average US […]
NAGRA, a Kudelski Group digital TV business and independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, has announced that its MediaLive multiscreen solution is enabling Belgian cable operator VOO to distribute its premium pay-TV content beyond its cable subscriber base and use OTT to reach any consumer with a broadband connection. Deployed “in the […]
Conax, part of the Kudelski Group and a specilaisrt in total service protection for pay-for-media, content owners and entertainment services, has announced it is providing primacom, one of Germany’s largest cable TV providers, with content revenue protection for its growing DVB cable and pay-TV network. Based in Leipzig, primacom has deployed the flexible Conax Contego […]
Senior executives at the BBC have revealed further details of the Corporation’s proposals to close BBC as a broadcast channel and reinvent it online. The changes – which are subject to approval by the BBC Trust – will generate savings of £50 million, which will be reinvested into BBC Three online, as well as strengthening […]
Time Warner chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes says HBO’s OTT channel will open up the premium channel not only to the 10 million broadband-only homes in the country, but will attract many of the 70 million basic cable customers that don’t subscribe to the channel. HBO will initially market the channel (that launches next year) […]
UK supermarket retailer Sainsbury’s has launched its Sainsbury’s Entertainment OTT channel on streaming media platform Roku with the aim of giving users access to a range of content. Sainsbury’s Entertainment allows users to buy or rent the latest movie blockbusters including 22 Jump Street, How to Train Your Dragon 2 and Spiderman 2. In terms […]
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has unanimously approved the creation of an Olympic Channel. It adopted the recommendation following a Feasibility Study that suggested the creation of an Olympic Channel was a viable opportunity for the IOC: To provide a platform for the continuous exposure of Olympic sports and athletes beyond the Olympic Games period […]
Video and visual technologies are becoming increasingly important for interacting with customers and each other, according to information technology research and advisory specialist Gartner. The firm predicts that by 2017, live video broadcasting will be the new ‘selfie’ and recommends that product managers start creating a ‘visual’ strategy straight away to accommodate this trend. “The […]
Civolution, the solutions specilaist for identifying, managing and monetising content and the European streaming service Wuaki.tv, part of Rakuten Group, the world’s third largest e-commerce company, have conformed the integration and deployment of Civolution’s content protection technology NexGuard, which is enabling Wuaki.tv to roll out session-based watermarking for Ultra HD movies. The Wuaki.tv platform aims […]
Almost 90 per cent of the most popular and highest quality film and television content is now available across legal digital platforms, according to the findings of a report compiled by consultancy firm KPMG. The report, UK availability of Film and TV Titles in the Digital Age, examines