Italy’s Corte di Cassazione (Supreme Court) has sentenced a 52-year old Palermo man to four months imprisonment for using codes purchased from third parties to access the Sky Italia pay-TV platform. Unsuccessfully, the defendant defended himself by claiming that he purchased the software for decoding codes on the web to justify the fact that “the […]
Facebook has asked football’s UEFA media bosses permission to live stream the Champions League and Europa League games into certain markets and territories which do not have TV rights for the matches. In particular, it seems that Facebook had in mind nations such as India and Colombia. However, the social media giant has not placed […]
South Africa is set to introduce new regulations to cover streamed content coming into the country. Communications Minister Ayanda Dlodlo says there will be a draft White Paper issued shortly for public consultation. The current Broadcasting Act has been in place since 1999 and the minister says it is time for an update. Speaking to […]
An Airbus-built electric satellite Eutelsat 172B has reached its target geostationary orbit in record time. Eutelsat 172B was only launched on June 1st, and uses electrical ION thrusters to reach orbit. This system represents massive savings in the amount of on-board fuel which a chemically-driven satellite would need. The downside is that such electric thrusters […]
SpaceX will tonight (October 11th, weather permitting) launch a condominium satellite operated by SES and EchoStar. The twin-mission satellite was built by Airbus Defense & Space and will go to 105 degrees West. SES will use a portion of the craft and its C-band transponders. EchoStar will tap into the satellite’s 24 Ku-band transponders for […]
The latest forecast from research firm CCS Insight shows the global mobile phone market remaining stable for the next five years, with about 2 billion mobile phones sold every year. However, this steady total masks underlying shifts as feature phones continue to decline as a total proportion of the market, 4G technology dominates sales and […]
As the new NFL, NBA, and NHL seasons get underway, fuboTV, the sports-first live streaming TV service in the US, passed the 100,000 subscriber milestone in September. Originally launching in January 2015 as a streaming soccer destination, fuboTV has – in less than a year – built a new OTT live service that offers fans […]
Nokia and WOW!, a US broadband provider, have announced what they claim is the industry’s first commercial virtualised Distributed Access Architecture (vDAA) deployment. Nokia’s Unified Cable Access solution will increase the capacity of WOW!’s existing HFC (Hybrid Fibre-Coaxial) network, helping the broadband provider meet exploding bandwidth demands of subscribers, adapt to the evolving ways they […]
ThinkAnalytics, developer of a multi-platform TV search and recommendations engine, has revealed that Mexican operator Megacable is now personalising Xview pay-TV customers’ linear and VoD experiences on set-top boxes, online and on mobile apps with recommendations based on their viewing preferences. In addition, Megacable is reaping the benefits of ThinkBigData to gain valuable, granular insight […]
Nevion, a provider of virtualised media production solutions, has announced that German broadcaster RTL II has selected Nevion and partner LOGIC media solutions to deliver a video-over-IP solution for its OTT-playout. Following the acquisition of three channels-in-a-box servers for OTT programs, RTL II decided that all the routing in the new environment should be exclusively IP-based, using […]