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EBS enables red button recordings on BT Sport

EBS, the full-service provider of EPG data for platforms and channels, is now providing BT Sport with data that enables the functionality to record events directly from its red button interactive service. The packed schedules live sports competitions on BT Sport, including the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League, mean that there can be […]

March 15, 2016

Channel boost for local TV across UK

Local TV channels across the UK are set for a boost with the offer of a more prominent position in the Freeview TV guide, Digital UK has announced. Currently listed at channel 23, local services in Scotland and Wales will be eligible to move to channel 8 following the transition of BBC Three to a […]

March 3, 2016

Freeview Play specs available for all

Digital UK has published the technical specification for Freeview Play, opening the connected TV service to broadcasters, platforms and equipment manufacturers worldwide. Previously available only via formal registration, the document details the technologies required to design and implement Freeview Play TVs and boxes. The publication follows strong interest in the service from both UK manufacturers […]

February 18, 2016

Analyst: Recommendation to drive 75% of TV viewing

According to consultancy service The Diffusion Group, US multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) will rapidly move to make recommendation-based programme guides the centrepiece of their updated TV interfaces. Within the next decade, the use of these recommendation-driven guides will flourish, ultimately driving 75 per cent of all TV viewing, according to TDG’s report, Recommendation Revolution […]

February 9, 2016

Teleste integrates EPG info to Samsung’s hotel TVs

Teleste, an international technology group, has developed a solution that allows the delivery of EPG information from the Teleste Luminato headend to Samsung’s LYNK SINC, a specialised solution for Samsung Smart hotel TVs that provides remote management of interactive TV content and delivers customised viewing options to hundreds of guest rooms. “We are delighted to […]

February 8, 2016

Zappware: Intuitive and consistent

The Zappware platform comes with a uniquely designed, best-in-class and ever-evolving user interface. A content-driven navigational pattern ensures your subscribers can intuitively use your services. By creating an immersive experience that integrates many different types of content and services, we avoid that subscribers have to switch over to other entertainment platforms and thereby reduce churn. […]

February 1, 2016

Coalition suspects Google/FCC collusion

Without making specific allegations, the Future of TV Coalition – a diverse group of US programmers, content creators, civic groups and television providers formed to celebrate and promote the thriving innovation that is revolutionising the video viewing experience – has intimated that Google may well have had advanced warning of the FCC’s plans to introduce […]

February 1, 2016By Colin Mann

NCTA: Consumers will pay for STB reform

Michael Powell, President and CEO of US trade body the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) and a former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission himself, has hit out at plans by current incumbent Tom Wheeler to introduce regulation that he says would pave the way for software, devices and other innovative solutions to compete […]

February 1, 2016By Colin Mann

NOW TV launches most advanced box yet

Sky’s OTT TV streaming service NOW TV is to launch what it says is its most advanced TV box later this year. The brand new NOW TV Smart Box will bring together NOW TV’s wide range of pay TV content and over 60 live free-to-air channels. The addition of digital terrestrial television services pitches the […]

January 29, 2016

Roku advances OTT offerings for operators

As well as confirming its role in developing what Sky’s OTT streaming service NOW TV is describing as its ‘most advanced’ box yet, streaming platform specialist Roku has revealed that it is developing a hybrid set-top box that will be available for production by Roku Powered partners later this year. The new Roku Powered hybrid […]

January 29, 2016