China continues to be robust and growing market for giant screen operator IMAX in terms of box office revenues, which were up 30.5 per cent for its Q3 (y-o-y) and “driven by compelling slate of Hollywood and Chinese local language blockbusters,” according to IMAX. Additionally, IMAX told analysts that it had converted more than 200 […]
DR, Denmark’s national public service broadcaster, has selected Massive, the specialist UX vendor for the OTT industry, to overhaul its OTT streaming service. The OTT service, branded DRTV, has been redesigned from the ground up to refresh its core offering for consumers across the country. The service is powered by Massive’s content delivery and user […]
Comcast announced its results to September 30th and they showed why it saw it as vital to secure its $40 billion Sky deal. The world’s biggest cableco lost another 106,000 video customers in the three months ending September. So far in 2018, Comcast has shed 342,000 cable TV subscribers, up from 118,000 in the same […]
The so-called El Clásico, the football match between the two largest Spanish teams, Real Madrid and Barcelona this weekend will be broadcast in 4K for 650 million viewers in 183 countries. Spanish TV group Mediapro will produce the broadcast with 30 UHD cameras and surround sound. La Liga has compared the TV transmission with the […]
Video OTT and pay-TV research from analyst firm Parks Associates shows that consumer perception of a poor value proposition in pay-TV remains the top trigger for changing, downgrading, or cancelling services. Among households that have made pay-TV changes in past 12 months, one-third of cord cutters and 10 per cent of switchers or cord shavers […]
SES saw its Video division revenues continue to be under pressure and fell back to -2.8 per cent, although its Networks segment grew impressively by 13.6 per cent in the nine months to September 30th. Its Q3 2018 underlying revenue of €317.5 million was 3.8 per cent lower (year-on-year) at constant FX. Video distribution revenues […]
Tens of thousands more new-build homes could be in line for a broadband boost after Openreach, the UK’s digital network business, is to reduce the price it charges developers for its future-proof Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology by more than three quarters. The new pricing means UK house builders will pay just a fraction of the current […]
A one per cent drop in revenue to €747.6 million resulting from the advertising crisis has meant Atresmedia, one of the largest TV operators in the country, has seen its profit drop by 16.8 per cent to €86 million to September. TV revenues dropped by 0.9 per cent to €696 million. EBITDA amounted to €124 […]
In the wake of the controversy around Eleven Sports’ intentional breach of the English Football Association’s (FA) longstanding blackout restriction on UK broadcasters, which was subsequently rescinded, geolocation-based security and digital content protection specialist GeoGuard has put the blackout to the test in terms of seeing how easy (or hard) it would be to circumvent […]