The French government is considering a 1 per cent tax on the sale of smartphones and tablets to help fund French film, music and images, it is estimated it could raise around €85 million. Broadcasters already pay fees to fund cultural projects but firms such as Google and Apple are currently exempt. The new proposal is in a study by [...]
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,” [...]
Motive Television has revealed it will be developing its Tablet Television technology to enable Freeview users in Britain to watch and record television programmes directly onto tablets – without the need to connect to the Internet. With Motive’s app and an antenna-tuner containing Motive’s technology, tablet users will be able to watch all the programming currently available on the Freeview [...]
Starz has announced a vast first wave of new device support for itsonline authenticated TV Everywhere services, Starz Play, Encore Play, and Movieplex Play. The launch includes support for popular handsets and tablets on Android and other platforms including NOOK HD and NOOK HD+, and select Google Nexus devices including the Nexus 4, Nexus 7, and Nexus 10. Starz has [...]
Annual revenue generated from content delivered to mobile handsets and tablets is expected to increase by nearly $25 billion over the next three years, reaching $65 billion by 2016, a report from Juniper has found. According to the report, growth would primarily be fuelled by an upsurge in game, video and eBook purchases via tablet devices, allied to increased opportunity [...]
New consumer research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) finds that 27 per cent of adults in the US watch video on devices other than a TV set daily, and 53 per cent on a weekly basis. This is an increase from 14 per cent daily, and 37 per cent weekly two years ago. These non-TV devices include home computers, mobile [...]
Recognising that historically, media companies have needed to juggle separate back-end systems for managing live online events and the rest of their premium video assets, white-label video publishing company thePlatform has introduced a single Web-based console to schedule and manage live signal acquisition and encoding, handle dynamic advertising insertion and metadata creation, and automatically archive live video broadcasts to create [...]
Now that the dust has settled down on BSkyB’s Q3 results, perhaps it is time to reflect on the overall state of play in UK pay-TV. First, and provided you ignore the deliberate fudge over actual DTH net new subscriptions, which for Q3 were probably – at best – about 5,000, but if you just look at BSkyB in pure [...]
Forty-seven per cent of home entertainment devices (Internet-capable TVs, Blu-ray Disc Players, video game consoles, and streaming media devices) are currently connected and being used for their online capabilities. But the degree to which these devices are used online varies significantly, according to global information company The NPD Group’s Connected Intelligence Connected Home report. Internet-capable TVs and Blu-ray disc players [...]
