Netflix CEO Reed Hastings told the Canadian Digital Media Network 3.0 conference that the future of Internet TV will be filled with apps and constantly evolving. “We are now in 40 countries around the world, so people are starting to watch Internet video and you can start to see the outlines of what TV will be like in the future,” [...]
Netflix is considering the Netherlands, France and Belgium as new European launch markets, according to reports. Belgian news site Bloovi reported that the on-demand streaming company was preparing to launch in Belgian before the end of the year, while newspaper Le Soir reported that France and the Netherlands were likely to roll out first, followed by Belgium by the end [...]
Following the conclusion of the 2012-13 English Premier League football season, Internet TV service FilmOn.com is offering fans of ‘the Beautiful Game’ the chance to combat withdrawal symptoms before next season gets under way. The service’s Internet football channel is offering a packed schedule of Premier League archive games that are all available via PC or smartphone every day for [...]
The US Tennis Association and ESPN have agreed an 11-year broadcast deal – reported to be worth $770 million – for ESPN to be the exclusive home in North and South America of the US Open from first ball through the women’s and men’s championships each summer from New York beginning in 2015. ESPN now will air the championship in [...]
Amazon has announced an expanded content licensing agreement with NBCUniversal Cable & New Media Distribution that will bring a variety of popular programmes to Prime Instant Video. Amazon’s Prime Instant Video offers more than 40,000 movies and TV episodes for Prime members to stream on Kindle Fire, iPad, iPhone, Roku, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3,Wii U, among other connected TVs and [...]
HBO GO, the online VoD service, is now available on blizoo, the largest cable operator in Bulgaria, to clients who have an HBO subscription and a broadband Internet service. Dimitar Noykov, Country Manager of HBO Bulgaria, commented: “We are delighted to announce the launch of HBO GO to our subscribers in Bulgaria. We can now offer all the very best [...]
Recent findings from Juniper Research suggest that by 2017, 2 billion mobile and tablet users will watch TV and video on their devices. This is attributed to the growing popularity of short and easily shared video clips, and the increased global uptake of connected devices with faster processors and better displays. The Mobile/Tablet TV & Video: Content, Broadcast & OTT [...]
Parks Associates has published new research showing 26 per cent of US broadband households own a smart TV and 46 per cent own at least one set-top box. Furthermore, 63 per cent of smart TV owners connect the set to the Internet, and 79 per cent of these owners use the TV to watch premium online video on a monthly [...]
Having acquired mobile and Internet highlights rights for English Premier League football for £30 million, Rupert Murdoch’s News International is to introduce a paywall for access to its Sun daily newspaper online content from August, in time for the 2013-14 season. The move means that all publisher News International’s UK titles have paywall-protected content, with the UK newspaper arm of [...]
Sandvine, a provider of broadband network solutions, has released its Internet traffic trends report based on data from a selection of Sandvine’s 200-plus service provider customers spanning North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Caribbean and Latin America and Asia-Pacific. “We predict from this data that 2013 will be the year long-form video will make its move onto mobile networks,” [...]
