Tilgin, supplier of broadband services solutions for operators, has announced a new release of its Service and Device Management software, VCM. Tilgin’s remote management solution enables the operators to expand their service offering of triple play services while keeping operating cost under control. The new VCM 5.6 introduces Remote Management of IPTV Set Top Boxes while also further improving its [...]
comScore has released July 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, showing that 158 million US Internet users watched online video during the month, the largest audience ever recorded. Online video reached another all-time high in July with a total of 21.4 billion videos viewed during the month. In July, Google Sites continued to rank as the top US [...]
The Kudelski Group owner of Nagravision and major shareholder in Open TV, has released its half year 2009 results. During this period, the Group says it started to reap the fruits of the migration of a significant share of its digital TV conditional access deployed base to the service model. In 2008, the Group delivered over 25 million new generation [...]
German cable operator Kabel Deutschland (KDG) added 23,000 digital pay-TV subs during the 12 months to the end of June, a 2.8% increase on the previous year for a total of 842,000 digital pay-TV RGUs at the end of the first half of the year. The proportion of subscribers taking premium services, including pay-TV, DVR and triple-play, reached 31.5% compared [...]
Time Warner Cable and Verizon plan to test systems to offer shows on the Web to their pay TV subscribers following Comcast's example in the TV Everywhere initiative. Pay-TV companies are concerned that the recession-resistant subscription revenue of cable television could be undermined if cable shows became widely available over the Web, effectively cutting out the cable and satellite TV [...]
US drama Heroes was the most popular illegally downloaded show this year, according to research firm Big Champagne. About 55 million people downloaded the show, whilst 51 million chose to access Lost, the second most popular show. All of the programmes in the top 10 were American. Visits to leading torrent sites, which index video and music files, have also [...]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome Pay-TV subscribers in Western Europe grew by almost 13 per cent to more than 62 million during the year ending March 2009, or over 36 per cent of total TV households, according to the latest market research by Milan-based e-Media consultancy. The fastest growing platform was IPTV, which was up more than 49 per cent [...]
From August 31st, Czech Television, the public TV broadcaster in the Czech Republic, will broadcast its HDTV channel via T-Systems Czech Republic and Media Broadcast’s HDTV satellite services. As part of a bidding consortium, Media Broadcast sends the programme signal to the Usingen teleport close to Frankfurt, Germany. From the teleport, the programme will be distributed via the ASTRA satellite [...]
NBC Universal has appointed Denise O’Donoghue, co-founder and former joint managing director of UK-based Hat Trick Productions, as head of its international production division. She has a brief to grow the business aggressively both organically and through acquisition.
Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures and Lionsgate have begun offering the first movie downloads that can be burned to disc using virtually any DVD or Blu-ray Disc burner for playback on a range of devices. The four studios are offering the downloads through online movie service Film Fresh, which made the first US movie delivery deal with popular video [...]
