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ESPN Goals ups game for 2012/13 season

ESPN Goals, the free mobile app which brings UK fans video of goals and highlights from every Barclays Premier League match within minutes of action taking place, is back with an enhanced version for the new football season. New features include: Fans can watch video from selected ESPN studio-based programming, such as its pre- and […]

August 17, 2012

Quickflix on Samsung Galaxy tablets

Quickflix, Australia’s leading online movie company, has launched its ‘all you can view’ streaming service on the new Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 tablet allowing Quickflix subscribers to enjoy blockbuster movies and television shows on the go instantly, for a subscription fee of A$14.99, or pay per view. The Quickflix streaming ‘app’ is pre-loaded on all […]

August 17, 2012

Sky Italia limits use of Sky Go

Sky Italia has decided to limit the use of the Sky Go service on mobile phones and tablets in an attempt to protect content from piracy. In an email sent to subscribers, the Italian pay-TV operator explained that, from now on, they will not be able to receive the Sky Go channels, except news channel […]

August 16, 2012From Branislav Pekic in Rome

90% of UK TV watched live

Although the BBC has released figures indicating record online and catch-up viewing during the London Olympics, findings from the first half of the year suggest that linear TV channels are people’s preferred way to watch TV. Ninety per cent of linear TV viewing in the UK was of live, scheduled TV channels during the first […]

August 16, 2012

Sky unveils Sky+ enhancements

UK digital broadcaster Sky has unveiled an update to the Sky+ app for iPad which allows Sky TV customers to use their iPad as a remote control. Sky customers will be able to take even more control of their main TV experience through the app, using it to change channels as well as pause, play […]

August 15, 2012

HBO teams up with blinkbox

HBO Home Entertainment UK has revealed plans to make its portfolio of TV shows available to watch instantly through a new agreement with digital movie service blinkbox. For the first time, consumers in the UK can buy the second seasons of Emmy and Golden Globe-winning epic Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire via blinkbox’s digital […]

August 13, 2012

The Hunger Games UltraViolet release

Having announced late May that it would be releasing acclaimed movie The Hunger Game on Blu-ray Disc, DVD, on demand and digital download on August 18, global entertainment company Lionsgate has confirmed that the title, which has generated more than $683 million at the box office, is to be available through UltraViolet channels such as […]

August 13, 2012By Colin Mann

Sports viewers go online and multi-screen

Research commissioned by Tier 1 Internet operator Level 3 Communications to ascertain current trends in viewing broadcast sport has revealed that the Internet is challenging traditional broadcast technology as a means of delivering programming content. The company suggests that a “perfect storm” is brewing as intense competition between content providers and device makers meets faster, […]

August 10, 2012By Colin Mann

Video tops Android to connected TV beaming

Zapstreak, the mobile SDK for Android app developers, has published data that has been collected via Shortbeam, the company’s showcase app launched on Google Play in March this year. With Zapstreak’s technology embedded within a media app (video, music and images), user’s can push music streams, videos or images to a connected TV using DLNA […]

August 8, 2012

No YouTube on iOS6

The app for YouTube is missing from the next version of Apple’s iOS6 operating system. Apple said the app had been removed because its licence to produce the program had expired. The Apple-made version of the YouTube app has been a staple on the iPhone’s iOS since the device was first launched in 2007. Apple […]

August 7, 2012