Vimeo has unveiled new white-label partner app support on three new platforms – Android TV, Amazon Fire TV and Xbox One. Vimeo’s OTT product, VHX, is a complete turn-key solution for launching OTT streaming video channels. Partners can immediately leverage these additional platforms to expand their audience reach and revenue potential, launching applications in just […]
LG Electronics and Dolby Laboratories have unveiled the LG UP970 Ultra HD Blu-ray player, LG’s first 4K Blu-ray player which will support Dolby Vision high-dynamic -range (HDR) imaging. Dolby Vision capability for the UP970 will be available through a software update scheduled for later this year. The UP970 also offers enhanced dual format HDR compatibility […]
Molotov offers a radical new way to watch television, discover TV content and enjoy TV across smartphones, tablets, PCs, OTT set-top-boxes and Smart TVs. Following the opening Keynote of CES 2017 by Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO and founder of NVIDIA, Molotov announces today a partnership with the world leader in visual computing technologies. By joining forces, […]
At CES 2017, ThinkAnalytics continues its leadership as the most advanced TV and video search and recommendations company as it previews ThinkMarketing, a suite of marketing-oriented dashboards and consoles that are integrated with the ThinkAnalytics Search and Recommendations Engine and ThinkBigData. ThinkMarketing gives pay-TV operators and OTT players a unified view of the performance of campaigns […]
French newspaper Les Echos is reporting that French broadcaster AB Groupe is up for sale. The report says that executives of AB Groupe are already in talks with potential buyers. AB Groupe was originally a music production company formed by Jean-Luc Azoulay and Claude Berda (hence the ‘A-B’) but since 1987 has launched a wide […]
As of January 1st, the sale of TV sets with DVB-T/MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 encoding is no longer allowed in Italy. Retailers can market only TV sets with tuner compatible with the new second-generation digital terrestrial standard DVBT-2/HEVC, which allows for more efficient use of frequencies by an estimated 30 per cent compression of the signal. […]
Sky Mobile – the UK’s newest mobile service – is now available to buy. Research commissioned by Sky Mobile, suggests almost 20 million smartphone users in the UK are deliberately buying more data than they actually need each month for fear of being overcharged. Almost three quarters (72 per cent) of those buying unnecessary data […]
Investment by new digital services such as Spotify, Sky, Amazon, Apple Music and Google has resulted in sales of music, video and games running £1 billion ahead of where they were just four years ago, according to data compiled by the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA). Preliminary figures from ERA indicate that booming digital services helped […]
Intelligent personal assistant Google Assistant is making its way to Android TV in the coming months. As part of an upcoming update on supported TVs and set-top boxes powered by Android TV, users will be able to ask the Google Assistant for help so they can enjoy the content they love, faster than ever, on […]
Sky Sports F1 will be the only place to watch every Formula 1 Grand Prix live next season, with ten races exclusively live including the opening two from Australia and China, and two of the final three races. And for the first time in UK TV history, viewers in the UK and Ireland with Sky […]