A first-quarter gain of just over 2 million subscribers to its streaming service helped Netflix shares soar, passing $200 a share in after-hours trading for the first time since 2011. Industry expectations were of about 1.7 million. Quarterly revenue exceeded $1 billion for the first time. Netflix also announced a new subscription option designed to profit from the practice of [...]
MTV has cancelled its top-rating reality show Buckwild, days after the death of its 21-year old star Shain Gandee. The show was in the middle of shooting its second season. According to US gossip site TMZ, the show’s producer JP Williams said he plans to continue the show, which follows the lives of a group of young people from a [...]
Dolby Laboratories and Royal Philips Electronics in association with CAMERON | PACE Group (CPG) announced at NAB in Las Vegas that they have signed an agreement to integrate the Dolby 3D format into CPG’s 3D video content production workflow and to collaborate on the use of the Dolby 3D format. All parties believe that glasses-free 3D presentation in the home [...]
At NAB Vimond Media Solutions revealed the Vimond Sports Experience, a new product that enables users to create extraordinary online environments for sports fans. Vimond Sports Experience is a sports-specific online-viewing service for its Vimond Platform, which drives multiformat over-the-top (OTT) services for all major Nordic broadcasters and others around the world. The Vimond Sports Experience is a suite of [...]
Elemental Technologies, the leading supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, announced that Warner Bros. has deployed Elemental Server video processing systems to enhance its Emmy Award-winning Digital End-to-End (DETE) content workflow and distribution system. Elemental Server drives large-scale content conversion while significantly reducing the physical, power and heating footprint required to output studio-grade video assets for distribution. Warner [...]
Following a range of initiatives announced October 2012 as the service approached its 20th anniversary, international news channel Euronews confirmed at MIPTV that it is rolling out a new organisation that plays on the strengths of its 400-strong journalist staff and the quality of its editorial line. The user experience – already pinpointed as a priority by Euronews in early [...]
Reinforcing comments made by fellow senior executives at BSkyB as to the broadcaster’s commitment to content production, Sophie Turner Laing, Sky’s Managing Director of Content, has suggested that high-end drama will drive the next stage of its growth. Delivering a MIPTV ‘Media Mastermind’ keynote speech, she told delegates that “you can give viewers all the technology you want, but unless [...]
BBC R&D has commercially launched Stagebox, a camera-mounted device that enables programme makers to link multiple cameras, and move HD content, over a standard internet network for the very first time. Stagebox is an important step in helping the broadcast industry move toward a truly open and end-to-end internet protocol (IP) production chain. Stagebox combines all professional broadcast feeds and [...]
History fans in the UK will soon be able to delve even further into ancient cultures, famous figures and monumental historical events with the launch of new channel H2 on Saturday, May 4th, 2013. Part of the A+E Networks brand portfolio, H2 is a complementary brand to History, providing audiences with more to explore, more to reveal, and more to [...]
Media Excel, specialist in adaptive bitrate, multi-device transcoding for multiscreen video delivery – and Dogan TV Holding, Turkey’s leading commercial broadcaster – have announced a deal for supporting the entire transcoding infrastructure of Dogan TV’s new OTT platform, netD. “At Dogan TV we are constantly looking for ways to monetise our content by enhancing the overall user experience across all [...]
