Netflix has transformed the viewing habits of millions of U.S. consumers — but it may need to do more to win their hearts. Those are among the findings of a new study of “over-the-top” video viewing from Knowledge Networks. The research — conducted not long before Netflix’s much-discussed changes in its pricing policies — shows that – 35% [...]
The number of U.S. consumers planning to purchase a smart TV has nearly doubled in less than a year, according to new consumer research from Parks Associates. The firm’s Consumer Decision Process: Summer Update reports more than 10% of broadband households plan to purchase a smart TV in the second half of 2011, up from 6% in the first [...]
Aim High, produced by Warner Bros and the Hollywood director McG, could be a major step in Facebook’s evolution as a player in the entertainment business. The show surrounds the adventures of Nick Green, a high-school-student-turned-secret-agent.Facebook users who install the Aim High app will be offered the chance to watch episodes in a personalised mode. It will gather photos, wall [...]
Broadcom Corp.’s reported exit from the markets for television video processing chips illustrates the increasingly intense state of competition in this area, as Asian suppliers drive the established Western suppliers out of the business, according to the IHS iSuppli Digital TV & Set-top Box Semiconductor Market Tracker from information and analysis provider IHS. A recent press report noted that [...]
The perception that online video is cannibalising television viewership seems to be just that: a perception. At least during prime-time hours. More than half of web series video viewers (56 per cent) say they still tune in regularly to watch prime-time television, according to a survey of 1,500 people recently commissioned by Blip.tv, an online platform for web series. [...]
BBC Worldwide confirmed that the global BBC iPlayer App has launched in Australia and will be available to on the App Store exclusively on iPad. The app will give iPad users access to a quality mix of classic and contemporary British television specifically tailored for Australian viewers. The global BBC iPlayer is a video on demand subscription service that [...]
Microsoft is said to be planning a Web-based pay-TV service that it can build onto its Xbox Live platform say US reports. Microsoft is working with Comcast and Verizon to bring TV to the Xbox 360 connected game console. Within the next few weeks, Comcast will make Xfinity On Demand content available to Xbox users, while FiOS TV will make [...]
International Launch Services (ILS), using a Proton rocket with its Briz-M booster stage, successfully launched SES’s QuetzSat-1 satellite late on Sept 30 from the Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Some nine hours into the flight, the satellite was flawlessly separated from the rocket into its geostationary transfer orbit. ILS has now launched 19 SES satellites using the Proton rocket system. QuetzSat-1 will serve [...]
Back in January, Dolby Labs, a vital IP and audio CODEC supplier to the broadcasting and cinema industry, was trading at almost $70 a share. This week they hit an all-time low of just $27. The past few months have seen good news, and bad, for San Francisco-based Dolby. The good came in the shape of a legal dispute against [...]
Spain’s largest pay-TV platform, Digital Plus, is changing its name and from mid-October will use the brand Canal Plus. The current channel Canal Plus will be branded as Canal Plus 1 to avoid misunderstanding. So, the Canal Plus family of channels will be named: Canal + 1, Canal+ Dos, Canal+ Acción, Canal+ Acción… 30, Canal+ Acción HD, Canal+ Comedia, Canal+ [...]
