Following the lead taken earlier in the week by the Chief Executive of parent company Time Warner, Warner Home Entertainment Group President Kevin Tsujihara has reiterated Warner’s intentions to persuade consumers to convert physical content into digital files, managing their movies online and steering them away from cheap rentals and piracy. Addressing delegates at the […]
Global satellite operator Intelsat reported its full year and Q4 numbers March 1st, saying that its government-based business had seen a 7 per cent growth during the year, and media-related broadcasting (largely DTH) generate revenue growth of 4 per cent during the year. However, revenues overall only grew 2 per cent, not helped by the […]
Dutch cable company Ziggo is not in talks with US group Liberty Global, Ziggo’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bernard Dijkhuizen has told a Dutch newspaper. His comments come a day after Ziggo said it was preparing for a listing on the Amsterdam stock exchange and follow months of speculation in the Dutch press that Liberty, […]
As TV networks struggle to find the right balance between digital and traditional access to their content, research from Knowledge Networks, a GfK company, shows that online access wins favour with consumers in ways often overlooked by standard metrics. The study – TV’s Web Connections 2012 – is conducted annually to track the interplay between […]
Canadian cable MSO Cogeco Cable has sold its struggling Portugal unit Cabovisão to European media and telecoms investment group Altice for €45 million Altice holds stakes in Numericable, Est Videocom, Coditel and Completel companies in France, Belgium and other parts of Europe. The sale was long expected after Cogeco Cable wrote off its entire investment […]
Initial findings from the Mobile Media Consumption Q4 2011 survey conducted by independent mobile advertising network InMobi suggest that mobile has surpassed TV in terms of time spent,with mobile web users spending 27 per cent of their media time on mobile and spending 22 per cent of their media time on TV. InMobi suggests that […]
UK Broadband, holder of 4G spectrum, has switched on its first LTE system in London, using TD-LTE technology from Huawei. UK Broadband claims that this is the first TD-LTE 3.5GHz deployment in the world and the first commercial 4G deployment in the UK. It will operate a wholesale model, working with partners to offer commercial […]
The relentless march toward digital media technology has driven the evolution of consumer electronics from specialised electronic devices to multipurpose, networked computing devices, with the advent of ‘smart CE devices’ having a profound effect on the digital multimedia home, according to research firm NPD In-Stat, who forecast that smart CE device unit shipments will surpass […]
South Africa-based broadcaster e-TV is looking to launch another version of its popular channel for Zambian viewers. E-TV already has spin-off channels transmitting in Botswana, Ghana and Kenya. The current thinking, according to a BBC Monitoring report, is that e-TV will partner with a Zambian newspaper, the ‘Daily Mail’, to provide news and other programming […]
3D-image processing and business solutions specialist Sensio Technologies has agreed a patent licensing deal with Samsung Electronics with gives the consumer electronics firm the right to implement Sensio S2D Switch in its 3DTVs. The financial terms of the licence agreement will remain confidential. “After licensing other manufacturers last year, signing this agreement with Samsung Electronics […]