Oculus, the VR-firm owned by social media giant Facebook, is cutting the price of its VR headset for the second time this year. In a blog post, Oculus announced it is to price its Rift headset (bundled with hand-tracking Touch controllers) at $399 (€350), two-thirds of the price the company was charging just months ago. […]
Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network spin-off, Sling TV, has more than 2 million subscribers, according to data from ComScore. Dish Network itself does not break out its OTT subsidiary’s numbers. Sling TV packages a suite of TV channels at a basic monthly fee, helped by low Subscriber Acquisition costs and with zero installation costs. Marketed as […]
Entertainment technology and audience insights specialist TiVo and Australian pay-TV platform Foxtel have signed a multi-year intellectual property (IP) licence renewal. This agreement offers Foxtel ongoing access to TiVo’s entertainment discovery patent portfolios. “Our relationship with Foxtel demonstrates how pay-TV providers around the world use TiVo’s intellectual property to reach consumers in more innovative ways,” […]
South Korea’s giant conglomerate Samsung’s Electronics division is suggesting that its Q2 profits will be a record-breaking 14 trillion Won (about $12.1 billion), up 72 per cent. The division looks after TV displays, cellular phones and the manufacture of (DRAM and NAND) memory and solid-state modules. The actual numbers will be confirmed at the end […]
The Q1 (January-March) 2017 Australian Video Viewing Report – from audience research bodies Regional TAM, OzTAM and Nielsen – shows video viewing behaviour continues to shift with growing content, device and platform choices. The report examines the times of day when Australians watch video as well as the amount of time they devote to doing […]
Cable and DTH distribution networks in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have cancelled their carriage contracts with the London-based Al-Araby TV news channel. Al-Araby says, in a statement, that Dubai-based DTH operator OSN has ended its contract, as has Etisalat/E-Vision. “OSN and E-Vision have violated contracts signed with Al-Araby TV by stopping its broadcasts on […]
Satellite operator Intelsat concluded its latest refinancing step with a July 5th SEC filing explaining that it has swapped a series of borrowings worth some $1.5 billion and initially due for repayment in 2019. The new borrowings are not now due for repayment until 2025, but the interest rate is up 2.5 points, from 7.25 […]
One in two Australians can now connect to the nbn network as the roll-out of the nation’s largest ever infrastructure project officially passed the halfway point. More than 5.7 million homes and businesses are now able to order a service from their retailer as nbn continues to ramp-up the roll-out of the network by adding […]
Eutelsat says its Sales & Reservations Centre has booked almost 2,000 hours of coverage including ‘Occasional Use’ demands on three of its satellites, Eutelsat 10A, 16A and 12 West B to cover this year’s Tour de France cycle race. This is twice the demand from previous years. “For the first time ever there will be […]
Satellite operator SES says it has won a retransmission contract from Telekom Serbia to carry six TV channels and one radio station for Serbia’s public broadcaster RTS. The channels will be transmitted from Astra at 5 degrees East. The six RTS channels, RTS Satelit, RTS Život, RTS Drama, RTS Kolo, RTS Trezor, RTS Muzika and […]