Entone, a global provider of Cloud TV and Connected Home solutions, has announced that Horry Telephone Cooperative (HTC) has selected its Engage hosted service assurance platform to support their hybrid IPTV services. Engage is Entone’s multi-device (IoT) service assurance solution that provides premium support and management tools to ensure an optimised consumer experience. For over […]
Bell Media has revealed that its premium TV streaming service CraveTV will become available direct to all consumers on January 1st 2016. The announcement means that the content available exclusively on CraveTV will soon also be offered to all Canadians with access to the Internet. “As our business model has continued to evolve, the time […]
Vodafone and Orange are seeking deals with Netflix – which is set to launch in Spain in October – to stop the expansion of Telefónica’s Movistar Plus, their main rival. Their strategy is reaching distribution agreements and alliances with the US streaming service to offer their clients good series and films. Vodafone and Orange claim […]
Comcast has responded to the threat of cord-cutting by announcing the beta test of Stream, a new streaming cable service for its own Xfinity Internet customers that it says furthers the cable MSO’s goal of providing TV choices for everyone. In a Blog Post, Matt Strauss, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Video Services for […]
Motive Television, the technology provider to broadcasters and pay-TV operators, has developed new technology to add OTT players to its TabletTV product. Examples of Internet platforms that will be available in the UK include YouTube, BBC iPlayer, STV Player, ITV Player, All4, BT Sport, and Netflix. In the US, a similar selection of the most […]
According to research from TDG, the use of legacy pay-TV services among Netflix Streamers has declined only three points in the last three years, from 87 per cent to 84 per cent, within the margin of error. At the same time, the use of Netflix streaming among pay-TV users has increased 33 per cent, up […]
Digital TV Research forecasts 68.83 million SVoD [subscription video on demand] homes by 2020, quadruple the 2014 total and up from only 1.47 million in 2010. The Asia Pacific OTT TV & Video Forecasts report maintains that Japan will remain the largest SVoD country. China will overtake South Korea to become the second largest country […]
The BBC is rolling out the latest update to the iPlayer mobile app for Android and iOS mobile devices, featuring a new consistent menu across both platforms. Explaining the update to the navigation system, Tom Widd Senior UX Designer for BBC iPlayer, wrote in a blog: “Users will be presented with a consistent menu bar […]
Vodafone and Orange, Telefónica’s main multi-play rivals, have taken the acquisition by Telefónica of Canal Plus to Spain’s National Court (Audiencia Nacional), demanding tougher limits on the operation to guarantee free competition in the TV content market. Vodafone and Orange claim that they should be entitled to have access to 75 per cent of premium […]
As consumers embrace and experiment with a host of new ways of watching TV content, a new GfK MRI report has identified six new TV viewing audience groups and how they combine emerging and traditional options for TV use. TV Share of Clock – the first of four studies in GfK MRI’s new The Future of TV […]