Digitalsmiths, a TiVo company, and specialist in personalised content search and recommendations, has launched Seamless Insight, a reporting and analytics platform. Seamless Insight provides video service providers actionable visibility to optimise targeted content promotions that increase average revenue per user (ARPU) and improve viewer engagement. As personalised content discovery features expand, video service providers face […]
Samsung Electronics Co. UK has confirmed the availability of a refreshed and improved Curzon Home Cinema Smart TV App on the Samsung Smart Hub, giving users access to select films, including recently acclaimed titles Joe starring Nicolas Cage, and Ida from director Pawel Pawlikowski, the day they are released in Curzon cinemas. Widening its cinema […]
Next generation cable provider Layer3 TV has selected SeaChange International as a key vendor for its in-home platform, which will launch in the US in 2015. Layer3 TV will use SeaChange’s open Nucleus video gateway software to deliver a service that incorporates the best of television, social and digital life – all within the existing […]
While digital media players clearly enable use of streaming video and other platforms that enhance viewer control, new GfK research suggests that they may actually provide a net gain for traditional TV viewing. The report, Digital Media Players 2014, shows that
Updated streaming media device data from Parks Associates reveal that 10 per cent of US broadband households purchased one of these devices, either a streaming media player or stick, in the first three quarters of 2014, already matching sales from 2013. The research finds Roku is still
Quad-play operator Swisscom has reacted to the September 2014 launch in Switzerland of online entertainment streaming service Netflix by offering a new video flat rate service – Teleclub Play – with several thousand hours of television series, classic films, children’s programmes, documentaries and sports programmes. “In collaboration with Teleclub, we have put together a particularly […]
Netflix is expected to achieve 17 million paying subscribers to its international operations by the end of 2014, following its announcement of 14.4 million international subs in September. Launches in six European countries during September will help to boost the total, according to Digital TV Research. Simon Murray, Principal Analyst at Digital TV Research, said:
Communications infrastructure and media services specialist Arqiva has announced its existing Connect TV channels; Motors TV, SonLife Broadcasting Network, RTDoc and Vintage TV, are now available via on demand TV service YouView. Viewers of Motors TV, RTDoc and Vintage TV are able to access the channel content via the red button from the same LCN […]
Spaniards are now able to watch all Telefónica’s pay-TV channels from Movistar TV without the need of using a set-top-box. The company has entered into an alliance with Samsung to create Movistar TV Ready which will be available on all Samsung’s Smart TVs, featuring all the services currently distributed by Movistar TV. The integration of […]
TV technology specialist Vision247 has extended to the number of channels that it is streaming via the FreeviewHD service to include new channels focused on news, shopping and religion. The new channels include France24, TVC, Best Direct ShowcaseTV, BelieveTV, GodTV, ACBN. These will join more than 20 other news, sport and lifestyle channels freely available […]