Italian media company Mediaset is to this week launch a video-on-demand service for its DTT Premium pay-TV offering. Alongside the service, which will have at least 50-movies on offer, it is launching a 160GB DVR at E139. Mediaset expects to have 4.5 million Premium customers by the end of 2010, a 12% increase on 2009. […]
From Colin Mann in London A senior executive at ITV has suggested that 20 per cent of viewing of its channels will be via 'catch-up' services in 2013, up from four per cent currently. Carolyn Fairbairn, Director of Group Development and Strategy at the broadcaster told delegates at the Digital TV Summit that this would […]
DirecTV has named Michael White as its new President and CEO. White announced in September that he will retire later this year from his current position as vice chairman of PepsiCo. He will assume his new role at DirecTV beginning January 1st, 2010.
Sony has launched its high-definition video store on the PlayStation Network across Europe. Sony has made distribution deals with studios including Disney, Lionsgate, MGM, Paramount, Sony and Twentieth Century Fox, with approximately 50 new titles expected to be made available each week. The European launch comes in the same week Microsoft launched Zune, its HD-streaming […]
mirada the audiovisual interaction specialist, has teamed up with SmarDTV, a manufacturer of pay-TV technologies, to port Nagravision's Nagra Media Guide, onto a SmarDTV CI Plus module. The Nagra Media Guide is a fully integrated turnkey solution, which delivers an HD user experience enhanced with innovative features based on personalisation and recommendation. The partnership demonstrates […]
To coincide with its third birthday, Bluewin TV, the Swiss IPTV service, is rebranding as Swisscom TV. The product name change is part of the strengthening of the Swisscom umbrella brand which took place in 2008. Three years after its launch it has acquired over 200,000 customers.
Orange has reached 324,000 subscribers for its Orange cinema series bouquet in France, 1 year after launching the service, with similar audience levels across each of the five channels offered. The service offers a number of features, including multi-screen, catch-up TV and start-over, with nearly 50 per cent of subscribers using catch-up TV, and watching […]
IPTV set-top box manufacturer and software developer, Netgem, has been chosen by Telstra to supply set top box device and software for the T-Box service in Australia. T-Box will offer content from its BigPond movie store brand along with Australian terrestrial free-to-air high definition and standard definition television channels seamlessly together on a home television.
YouTube has taken a significant step toward a UK TV VOD portal with a new section called UK TV and featuring full length TV shows from its deal with C4 and others from US broadcasters. YouTube is posting around 5,000 videos, of which almost 4,000 are full-length programmes, from more than 60 partners. YouTube said […]
Italian media company Mediaset is to this week launch a video-on-demand service for its DTT Premium pay-TV offering. Alongside the service, which will have at least 50-movies on offer, it is launching a 160GB DVR at E139. Mediaset expects to have 4.5 million Premium customers by the end of 2010, a 12% increase on 2009. […]