As the 2010 working year drew to a close, it emerged that a report looking at whether News Corp’s proposed acquisition of the 61 per cent of BSkyB it does not already own would give the media group too much media power, was sent to the British government without being made public. The UK government asked comms regulator Ofcom to [...]
While the consumer electronics industry prepares its wares for the CES in Las Vegas, the foundations of a quiet revolution in TV viewing continue to be built, with 21 per cent of all TVs shipped in 2010 forecast to have Internet connectivity, according to DisplaySearch. The company’s Q4’10 Quarterly TV Design and Features Report, forecasts that the category will [...]
According to analysts Gleacher & Co, Netflix service is about 10 times larger than Apple’s iTunes video rental service at the time. Apple reportedly makes about 475,000 rentals a day whilst Netflix sell over five million rentals daily. As far as what Apple is renting, about 150,000 a day are movies and 400,000 are TV episodes. Close to 90 per [...]
Consumers are using the connected features of their connected TVs and say that they are pleased with the results, according to The NPD Group. The research firm’s Connected TV Owner Study reveals that nearly half of US consumers (45 per cent) who say they have an Internet-connected TV, access Internet features. Of those who have connected their TVs to the [...]
Technicolor has said that it will issue new shares worth about €213 million to pay back creditors after it failed to sell assets in its restructuring process fast enough. The group had issued about €265 million of debt in so-called disposal proceed notes (DPN) during its 18-month-long restructuring process in which it sought the protection of French courts to restructure [...]
Sonic Solutions’ RoxioNow platform licensee, Sears, has launched its online movie download service, Alphaline Entertainment. The new service enables the US retail giant and its Kmart customers to download entertainment online, including new movies on the same day they are released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc. Sonic is working with Sears on a multi-phase rollout that includes making the service [...]
Intelsat’s troublesome Galaxy 15 satellite, which went AWOL back in May, has been brought back under control. Galaxy 15 – as had been hoped – rebooted itself automatically as it was designed to do once it had lost all its battery power. During the preceding seven months the craft had threatened dozens of other satellites as it drifted through space. [...]
Consumer research from Leichtman Research Group, Inc. (LRG) found that 61 per cent of households in the United States have at least one high definition television (HDTV) set, and about 26 per cent have multiple HDTVs. Comparatively, in 2005, 12 per cent of US households had at least one HDTV, and 1 per cent had more than one HDTV. While [...]
American voters believe free market competition will protect Internet users more than government regulation and fear that regulation will be used to push a political agenda. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 21 per cent of Likely US Voters want the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to regulate the Internet as it does radio and television. Fifty-four [...]
Once there were three fierce rivals competing for pay-TV loyalty in the Middle East. In July 2009 Showtime and Orbit merged their competing services into the Orbit-Showtime Network (OSN). Now Arab Radio & Television (ART) has placed its five leading entertainment channels onto the OSN system. ART Aflam 1 and 2 plus ART Hikayat 1 and 2, as well as [...]
