Spain’s ONO has seen its TiVo offering taken up by 150,000 customers, it says. At the end of 2012 it had 100,000 TiVo customers, 11% of its TV user base. The service is available across its entire fibre network, priced at just €5 per month. “Our goal is to continue expanding the number of users and […]
Digisoft.tv, a global provider of HTML5 set-top box (STB) software and Dune HD, a global leader in full HD media players and connected boxes, announced at NAB a new cost-effective consumer platform aimed at carriers and retailers. Based on the award-winning Dune HD Connect StickSTB with additional support for the company’s full line of IPTV […]
EU antitrust regulators are to clear the $15.8 billion takeover bid by U.S. cable group Liberty Global for Virgin Media without requiring concessions, say reports. The European Union competition authority is set to announce its decision by April 15th. Antoine Colombani, Commission spokesman for competition policy, declined to comment.
RGB Networks, the provider of scalable multiscreen IP video delivery solutions, has confirmed the availability of its Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG) Gen 2, the second generation model of its VMG product line. Building on the field-proven capabilities of the first-generation platform, the VMG Gen 2 is the heart of RGB’s ’Multiscreen 2.0’ live streaming solution, […]
Communications technology specialist Ericsson is launch a new high performance compression platform which it claims raises the bar for efficiency and flexibility in the delivery of TV services over all networks. The AVP 4000, powered by Ericsson’s first-ever in-house developed programmable video processing chip, addresses multiple applications, regardless of codec, resolution or network. “The AVP […]
Last Saturday at midnight (March 30) ought to have seen a large cluster of major Indian cities switch off their analogue TV signals. 36 towns and cities were affected. Unfortunately, not all went to plan. India’s Information & Broadcasting Ministry admits that the conversion to digital TV is – at best – complete only in […]
According to a report from US consumer research body the Consumer Reports National Research Center, with carriers offering introductory discounts as much as half off, it’s little wonder why three quarters of those who bought a triple or quad-play telecom package (cable, Internet, home phone, cell phone) suggest that they would definitely or probably purchase […]
A big weekend series of top-rated cable shows managed to put US network TV firmly in its place as the finale of The Walking Dead, plus the debut Season 3 opening episode of Game of Thrones as well as the final episode of The Bible all combined to ruin Sunday evening as far as network […]
Continuing its transatlantic buying spree, following its takeover of Virgin Media in the UK and acquisition of a 27.3 per cent stake in Charter Communications in the US, broadband cable MSO Liberty Global has acquired 25.3 million shares in Ziggo, the largest cable operator in the Netherlands from Barclays Capital Securities Limited at €25.00 per […]
UK cable operator Virgin Media has been hit with a $100 million lawsuit in a New Jersey, US court. The plaintiff is investment manager W R Huff Asset Management, and they are alleging that they supplied Virgin (and its predecessors) with crisis management advice and in particular aided Telewest Communications and NTL with bankruptcy advice. […]