NDS has launched its next generation DRM solution for multi-platform pay-TV: VideoGuard Connect. It says the solution provides end-to-end protection of an operator’s service, using the unique security capabilities of each individual platform. VideoGuard Connect is designed to help TV operators to seamlessly extend their pay-TV services to connected media devices. It enables the secure ingestion, delivery and consumption of [...]
LoveFilm, the DVD postal subscription service that currently covers the UK, Germany and Scandinavia, might target new territories with a digital only service. LoveFilm says it would consider a streaming only service for certain markets. The criterion would include the expansion of the connected TV market and the availability of rights; a UK streaming only service, for instance, is hampered [...]
Sony Pictures and Warner Bros have signed on as content suppliers for Silicon Valley startup Flickme.com, a socially-focused movie streaming service that launched in the US this week. Flickme is set up in a similar fashion to other content streaming services that rent or sell films with the addition of deep integration with social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. [...]
IP Vision has announced that the FetchTV content portal will be available this autumn via an app as a service to consumers on Panasonic’s VIERA Connect compatible TV sets sold in the UK and Ireland. Viewers will be able to access a range of FetchTV’s specialist TV channels as well as thousands of hours of on-demand content that comprise the [...]
Modern Times Group (MTG), has entered into a strategic cooperation with Samsung Electronics Nordic. MTG’s Viaplay service is now available on all 2011 Samsung Smart TVs and 2010 Internet@TV sets across the Nordic region. Viewers simply need to subscribe to Viaplay in order to access the service. The Viaplay pan-Nordic multi-screen on-demand service makes Viasat Broadcasting’s pay-TV content offering available [...]
Reports suggest that UK commercial network ITV is looking to acquire format specialists Endemol. ITV is also said to be in discussion with Italy’s Mediaset, which is one of three owners of Endemol equity. Endemol itself is heavily indebted with at least $2 billion in debt (some reports put the debt burden at nearer $4 billion). In June the company [...]
Sony has unveiled a new 3D visor aimed at video gamers and film fans. The Sony HMZ Viewer is a personal 3D viewer that is worn on the users head, delivering the ‘immersive experience of a home cinema’. The visor comes complete with all-in-one goggles and earphones and Sony believes it provides the same experience as ‘sitting in the cinema’s [...]
On August 18th a giant Russian Proton rocket failed to correctly launch an Express-AM4 satellite, placing the craft in a near-useless orbit, and with a probable $300 million insurance claim. An investigation board was immediately set up and has now reported back with its findings. The examination says that the fault came from a badly programmed guidance sequence system. “This [...]
According to a study conducted by Media Technology Monitor, 34 per cent of Canadian internet users watch TV online, for about 30 minutes each week. The percentage of Canadians who accessed the internet through their television, whether rose to eight per cent in spring 2011, up one percent since last autumn. And while this evolution is giving Canadians more freedom [...]
Wyplay, a specialist in TV-centric operator software solutions, has integrated the “YouTube on TV” application into its client middleware and is now deploying it with its Vodafone customers. YouTube has developed a free application for the TV that lets users watch YouTube videos on the big screen, in up to 720p HD video quality, with easy navigation and quick access [...]
