UHD is part of every broadcaster conversation but is it ready for the market – there are plenty of TVs being sold but what about standards, content capture, workflow and transmission? Chris Forrester chaired a discussion with senior representatives from BT Sport, Harmonic, Harmonic, Snell Advanced Media and Sony. [bitsontherun xioz1Mru-hLYU43gg]
2016 will be a key inflection point for the rollout of Ultra HD via satellite, according to NSR’s UltraHD via Satellite, 3rd Edition report. NSR forecasts over 785 Ultra HD channels by 2025, and satellite capacity required to carry bandwidth intensive Ultra HD channels will drive an added $280 million in annual leasing revenues. The […]
Parks Associates has published international data from the company’s OTT Video Market Tracker service showing OTT video usage in Western Europe is continuing to expand, with 55 per cent of UK broadband households and 51 per cent in France watching TV programming and movies online, compared to 70 per cent in the US However,
India pay-TV broadcaster TataSky, 30 per cent owned by Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox (and 51 per cent by conglomerate Tata Groupo) is again contemplating mounting an Initial Public Offering (IPO). This is not the first time the operator has been rumoured to be considering a public float, but this time the reports seem well-founded. […]
US pay-TV network STARZ will undergo a “landmark transformation” on April 5th with the introduction of a new STARZ brand campaign and mission, as well as a repositioning and reprogramming of the ENCORE suite of channels under the STARZ flagship brand. The single master brand approach across the STARZ and STARZ ENCORE networks will not […]
UK fans of Formula One will not be able to see live coverage of the sport free-to-air after 2018 following a new broadcast partnership between Sky and Formula One Management, save for the home British Grand Prix and at least two others. Sky also confirmed that coverage would be available in Ultra HD from next […]
Has America become a marathon nation when it comes to video content consumption? Indications point to “yes”. Seventy per cent of US consumers now binge watch an average of five episodes at a time, and almost one-third (31 per cent) binge on a weekly basis according to Deloitte’s 10th Digital Democracy Survey. In addition to […]
UK quad-play operator Virgin Media is to ramp up the amount of exclusive video-on-demand programming available to its Virgin Media TV XL customers to watch through its TV on demand service. David Bouchier, Chief Digital Entertainment Officer at Virgin Media, revealed the operator’s intentions at a preview screening of Kingdom, a raw, emotional family drama […]
Research from Parks Associates shows usage of authenticated video viewing, or TV Everywhere, reached 40 per cent of US pay-TV consumers in 2015, up from 22 per cent in 2013. Entertainment Habits on Connected CE Devices shows the percentage of respondents watching authenticated video at least once a month is 23 per cent, which both […]
Netflix customers are the most likely entertainment consumers to promote their service to others with Netflix having risen to the top of the entertainment brand power list in both the UK and US, according to Ampere Analysis. Among channel and pay-TV platform brands Netflix has