Interest in mobile TV remains very low, with just 1 per cent using it in the past 12 months and only 3 per cent saying they were likely to try it in the next year, according to Continental Research's Autumn 2007 Mobile Report. Mobile phone owners were asked whether they would prefer to have an ad-free package that required a [...]
BrightSpot Media, creator of BrightSpot.TV, will surpass one million video ads served in the month of October. With BrightSpot.TV, consumers spend a few hours each month watching and interacting with commercials they find relevant and entertaining. These consumers originate from well established brands such as Gamefly, Napster, MLB.com, NBA, and XM Canada.
ROK Entertainment Group, the UK-based specialist mobile applications developer, has launched its first streamed mobile TV deployment in India through local operator BSNL. The service offers an initial portfolio of 6 channels to include English Music Channel (EMN), Hindi music channel (Geet), an entertainment channel (Bindaas), a Bollywood channel (Zoom), a live Hindi news channel plus a Regional Offering for [...]
CacheLogic, provider of the Digital Asset Delivery Network, has confirmed that global Internet TV network Babelgum is using its Velocix network to deliver progressive video streaming of on-demand TV content. The Velocix Network is designed to enable content owners, movie studios, and broadcasters to deliver video and other large digital assets over the web.
Akamai Technologies, global service provider for accelerating content and applications online, has launched TheHDWeb, a 'proof-of-concept' portal designed to showcase the experience consumers can have with high definition (HD) content online. The Website showcases content from a variety of industries including music, movies, professional sports, games and news. Companies providing HD content for the initiative include Apple, BBC Motion Gallery, [...]
ITV DVD has signed an agreement to make more than 300 features from its movie library available for download to own and download to rent via the British online retailer Coolroom. Films from ITV DVD's library will be available to consumers from £0.99 (E1.4) both on Coolroom's download store on www.coolroom.com and on Coolroom's IPTV channel across Microsoft Media Center.
NDS has announced its results for the first quarter ended September 30, 2007. Revenue for first quarter was up 25 per cent to $204.9 million (E142m) and operating income for first quarter was up 31 per cent to $58.3 million Commenting, Dr. Abe Peled, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NDS said, “Our business has seen continued strong performance across [...]
Sirius Satellite Radio reported a narrower third-quarter loss and recorded a 50 per cent increase in new subscribers ahead of its planned combination with larger rival XM Satellite Radio. Sirius reported a loss of $120.1 million (E83.2m) for the three months ended September 30, compared with a loss of $162.9 million in the year-ago period. Revenues rose 45 per cent [...]
Ashley Highfield, head of the BBC’s Future Media and Technology unit, defended the iPlayer in an interview with silicon.com. Asked: “Has criticism of the iPlayer, both around non-PC versions and DRM, been fair?” Highfield replied: “No. It’s understandable if we’d only ever intended to launch an XP-only iPlayer but that was never the plan. When we launch services we will [...]
From Sotires Eleftheriou in Paris The AB group is to launch a new digital satellite platform, called Bis Television, to be available simultaneously from the Hotbird and Atlantic Bird 3 satellites. The platform will consist of all (except for the time being M6 and W9 and i-Television) of the free DTT channels, plus a number of AB group's own channels [...]
