Singapore Telecom is adding 18 TV channels to its IPTV-based pay-TV bouquet, with Discovery Networks taking the lion’s share of the new channels. SingTel TV currently offers more than 190 channels serving its multi-national population. The new broadcasts add in Discovery’s Animal Planet, Discovery, Discovery HD World, Science, DMAX, Eve and TLC. Other new channels […]
More Netflix users in the US are officially cutting the cord than ever before. In a survey of 829 current Netflix subscribers, CutCableToday found that just 67 per cent still have a pay-TV service (cable or satellite), and of those, 9 per cent plan to cancel their pay TV service and another 16 per cent are […]
Findings from the second annual TiVo Spring 2015 Binge Viewing Survey indicate that binge viewing, defined as viewing more than three episodes of a series in a day, has continued its meteoric rise in both perception and popularity. Negative perception of binge viewing has greatly decreased, to only 30 per cent of respondents (versus 53 […]
Nearly half of British sports fans have put their work to one side and tuned into live sport on their portable screens according to research commissioned by Sky’s NOW TV. The research also reveals that over a quarter (27 per cent) admit to watching sport in secret: booking covert meeting rooms to keep up with […]
New Zealand’s DTT provider Freeview has launched a new platform designed to give New Zealanders easy access to on-demand video services on their TVs – FreeviewPlus. In a New Zealand first, FreeviewPlus uses Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) to enable seamless integration and switching between broadcast TV and on-demand services. The service is free to […]
Orange’s OTT HDMI dongle is set to be launched on July 9th in France and will allow viewers to watch Orange’s TV channels and services (VoD, replay, Dailymotion) anywhere, regardless of broadband provider. Directly rivalling Google’s Chromecast, Orange is the first French telco to deliver this kind of OTT dongle that can plug-in to any […]
Digital TV Research’s Global OTT TV & Video Forecasts report estimates that Netflix will have 69.90 million paying subscribers by end-2015, up by 28 per cent from 54.48 million at end-2014. International paying subs will reach 26.36 million by end-2015 – up by 9.58 million (or by 57 per cent) at end-2014. While the service’s […]
A new brand study of streaming providers seeking to understand how consumers perceive each brand has revealed that consumers believe Netflix can wholly replace other entertainment options, Hulu is irritating users with its mandatory commercials and Amazon Prime Instant Video isn’t differentiated from Amazon Prime shipping. The research, carried out by consumer insights firm iModerate, […]
Sky has revealed plans to develop a new dedicated kids app. This follows the recent expansion of the kids’ shows available in Sky’s on demand library from 700 to 4,000 episodes. Development of the app for mobile devices is already underway and it is expected to launch in early 2016. To build it, Sky is […]
Pay-TV operators purchased $15.3 billion worth of set-top boxes (STBs) in 2014, down from $15.9 billion in 2013. This decline represents the first contraction in the market since 2002, according analysis and insight firm IHS. Shipments of pay-TV STBs grew slightly in 2014 to 204.7 million units, an increase of just under 1 per cent […]