After a strong uptake period, the growth dynamic of IPTV market in the region slowed down. The main restraining factor apart from growing competition on pay TV market was lack of sufficient infrastructure. Therefore, in the future, an important market driver will be investments in high speed broadband technology: fibre-to-the-home/building (FTTH/B) as well as cable […]
Shortly after announcing a series of measures better to protect against copyright infringement, Google has revealed it is to acquire digital media solutions provider Widevine with the intention of improving access to video content across the web. According to Mario Queiroz, Google’s VP of Product Management, with rapidly improving broadband and wireless speeds, more powerful […]
Video search-engine operator blinkx is hoping it will be available on UK IPTV platform YouView when it launches in 2011, and has initiated discussions to that end. “We know the YouView team very well and we are involved in the various processes they currently have running with the tech teams,” blinkx founder and chief executive […]
The number of German TV households using cable TV has dropped from 57.6 per cent in 2005 to 52.7 per cent in 2010, according to a study by German magazine Focus. At the same time, the number of satellite TV households has grown from 41.2 per cent to 45.7 per cent and households using digital […]
Deutsche Telekom has confirmed it will expand the number of HD channel on its IPTV platform Entertain. From December, TNT Film HD, TNT Serie HD, Syfy HD, Sport1+ HD, Planet HD and Classica HD will be accessible to subscribers – with AXN HD to follow in February of next year. All of the German telco’s […]
French telecoms operator SFR is launching a new ultra-high speed triple-play service. SFR’s Neufbox Evolution STB is equipped to deliver 3D TV shows and films, as well as delivering content to a user’s smartphone or PC. The service is priced at €34.99 per month – and comes complete with a bundle of voice calls, web […]
Telefonica’s IPTV service Movistar Imagenio continues leading the growth in the Spanish pay-TV market with an increase of 18.2 per cent in the number of its subscribers to 773,000 in the third quarter of the year. The company, with a market share of 19 per cent, captured 26,000 new clients in the third quarter, up […]
Accedo Broadband, provider of app stores and applications for IPTV and Connected TV, has revealed that Viasat, the leading free-TV and pay-TV operator in Scandinavia, has selected Accedo to help develop, test and launch its Viasat OnDemand application for the LG NetCast platform. Viasat OnDemand is already available for consumers to watch via the Internet […]
BT profits have beaten expectations thanks to strong growth in both broadband and its BT Vision television service. Pre-tax profits at the telecoms giant rose 13 per cent to £496 million in the three months to the end of September, compared with the same period last year. BT said its full-year earnings were likely to […]
The BBC and BT have revealed plans to bring BBC iPlayer, the public service broadcaster’s video-on-demand service, to the telco’s IPTV platform, BT Vision. BT Vision will introduce BBC iPlayer over the next five months, in a phased release starting in early December. All BT Vision customers will be able to access the service by […]