Chello Multicanal and ZON Multimédia have confirmed a strategic partnership for the production, marketing and distribution of children's, movie and entertainment channels in Portugal and Portuguese-speaking Africa. The new company, Dreamia – Serviços de Televisão, equally owned by the partners, has been incorporated in Lisbon and extends the successful relationship between Zon and Chello Multicanal.
Nov 30 2009 | Posted in
Articles |
Read More »
Anevia, a specialist in video streaming solutions and service infrastructure, and BNS, Asia’s leading IPTV technology and content solutions provider, have combined their expertise to provide Asian hospitality, broadcast and telecom service providers with high performance TV and video solutions. The Anevia-BNS partnership has already generated interest among IPTV service providers, leading to deployments in Singapore, Macau, the Philippines, Indonesia [...]
Nov 30 2009 | Posted in
Articles,
IPTV,
IPTV |
Read More »
Korean mobile TV operators will introduce interactive services in December. The country’s six terrestrial DMB operators will start ‘DMB 2.0′ services and allow customers to access a range of data services such as e-commerce, stock updates, and personal video recording. Despite the services being available shortly, there are no handsets as yet that support the technology. Satellite DMB operator TU [...]
Australia’s proposed National Broadband Network will help boost the number of IPTV. A Frost & Sullivan report has predicted 235,000 IPTV subscribers for the country by 2014, while New Zealand is also predicted to have 141,000 IPTV subscribers by 2014 as a result of its own new broadband network. Work is expected to start on the new Australian broadband network [...]
Nov 30 2009 | Posted in
Articles,
IPTV,
IPTV |
Read More »
Playcast, a venture capital-backed company based in the UK and Israel, claims to have developed a system that will allow video games to be played in the home via existing cable TV networks, without the need for any extra hardware. It claims its new system will allow video games to be played live on existing set-top boxes of on-demand TV [...]
Nov 30 2009 | Posted in
Articles,
Broadcast |
Read More »
Virgin Media has unveiled plans to use a new measurement tool in the fight against digital piracy. The firm has revealed it is to use consultancy firm Detica’s CView software as part of the platform for its upcoming music download and streaming service. It is hoped the program will help to measure illegal files-haring activity across a range of networks, [...]
Nov 30 2009 | Posted in
Articles |
Read More »
The BBC will consider cutting some of its digital television and radio services after the analogue TV signal is switched off in 2012, its director general, Mark Thompson, has said. Thompson also said that there would be “reductions in some content” including a look at the “current scope of our website”. He promised that, after the switchover, a higher proportion [...]
IPTV usage is up 150 per cent according to a survey carried out by goetzpartners. In September and October 2009, it conducted a representative survey among Germans aged between 14 to 69 years, asking, in addition to usage intensity, about requirements, ideas and willingness to pay for IPTV. There is a clear indicator that consumers are turning increasingly towards IPTV. [...]
New forecasts by technology and media specialist Coda Research Consultancy show that mobile phone users in Italy accessing video content via their devices will climb to 5.1m in 2015, and that revenues will reach US$685m. Coda's report into the Italian TV market shows that users accessing TV content via DVB-H alone will double from its present 1.2m users to 2.5m [...]
Virgin Media has emerged successful in the patent dispute lodged against it by Gemstar TV Guide. The London High Court rulings call into question the ability for intellectual property rights holder Rovi to enforce its patents both in the UK and with operators around the world. Gemstar, now part of Rovi, had claimed Virgin's EPG had breached three patents which [...]
