Accedo, the video experience specialist is working with Telekom in Germany to launch a mass-market available Virtual Reality (VR) experience for live concerts. Magenta Musik 360 launched on June 2nd with live video streaming in virtual reality from Rock am Ring, one of the biggest music festivals globally. Telekom delivered VR content from multiple stages, with […]
After one of the biggest equipment upgrades in the history of broadcasting in Germany, regular operation of DVB-T2 HD started on schedule this year. ZDF, the largest public broadcaster in Germany, selected the R&S AVHE100 encoding and multiplexing solution from Rohde & Schwarz with HEVC technology from the Fraunhofer HHI for its headend implementation. The […]
More than a third of Premier League football fans say they regularly watch matches live online via unofficial streams, according to a survey carried out by ComRes and BBC 5 Live, the Corporation’s sport and news radio service. The poll suggests that younger adults are those most likely to say they stream matches via unauthorised […]
BBC Director-General Tony Hall has announced that the Corporation will spend an additional £34 million (€38.7m) on content and services for children over the next three years, describing it as its biggest investment in children’s services in a generation, enabling the Corporation to deliver an enhanced online offer for its youngest audiences. This new investment […]
YouTube has refunded advertisers that removed their content from the video-sharing portal after it was revealed that some ads appeared alongside extremist and terrorist content. A number of advertisers, including Marks and Spencer and McDonald’s, pulled all advertising from the Google-owned site following the revelations. In some instances, the refund amounts to as little as […]
RTVE, the Spanish public broadcaster, is seeking to get more money from pay-TV operators by forcing them to pay for its TV series and movies they offer through its catch-up and VoD services. Currently, the pay-TV operators are distributing RTVE content for free, and are also offering the content to be recorded and watched later […]
The threat to the closure of news channel Al Jazeera has never been greater. July 3rd saw Qatar’s Foreign Minister make a special visit to talk to mediators in Kuwait about softening the demands made by Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies to – amongst other items – close Al Jazeera, and to remove the […]
Freesat, the UK’s subscription-free satellite TV platform, and Discovery Networks have partnered to launch Quest and Quest Red on Freesat. The two channels are now available for Freesat viewers to watch on channel numbers 167 and 169. Freesat viewers can now enjoy popular programmes such as Salvage Hunters, Wheeler Dealers and Spanish Civil War with […]
Despite new Russian broadcasting and media laws coming into force during June which has already affected many ‘Western’ broadcasters and limits foreign ownership of online video services in Russia to 20 per cent, Netflix is still able to operate according to The Hollywood Reporter. Russian communications regulator Roskomnadzor previously said that it expected Netflix to […]
Rocket company SpaceX scrubbed its Monday evening launch of Intelsat’s 35e satellite. It was the second cancellation of the launch, and again the launch was aborted at the ten seconds to lift-off. In a tweet, SpaceX said it was standing down for the day due to a violation of abort criteria, adding that the payload […]