Comcast’s Xfinity and Fandango businesses have announced an integration that gives movie fans the ability to find local showtimes and movie tickets right on their television. Starting immediately with Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Xfinity X1 customers can say “Get tickets” into their X1 voice remote while watching the movie trailer to search more than 30,000 theatrical […]
Abu Dhabi-based Yahsat’s third satellite, Al Yah 3, is ready for work at its 20 degrees West orbital slot. The satellite was launched back on January 26th and at first was feared lost, with its Ariane 5 launch rocket failing to deliver the satellite to its correct geostationary transfer orbit. Fortunately, the satellite was recovered […]
Agama Technologies, the specialist in video service quality and customer experience, has announced that Telenor in Norway has extended its cable video assurance capabilities with Agama network probes, as well as implementing Agama SCALE – the next generation Agama analytics and assurance platform. As a natural step in modernising operations, Telenor extends their cable network […]
Orange Belgium is expanding its convergent offering with an evolution of its video features. This also broadens the scope for Zappware, Orange Belgium’s Digital TV Technology partner, who developed the multiscreen video platform. Orange Belgium is continuously investing to enrich its Love offering, to support its convergent positioning and growth. The video service is a […]
Technetix, a global broadband cable and telecommunications equipment provider, has been selected by NOWO to supply its DBx optical and RF platform and AIMA optical headend systems. These are to be installed to upgrade the HFC NOWO network. The system includes hundreds of Technetix DBE-1200 nodes, a thousand DBE-1200 RF amplifiers, all of which are to […]
France’s professional football league, la Ligue de Football Professionnel, has announced the outcome of its bid process for the audiovisual rights to its premier league Ligue 1 for the period 2020-2024, with Spanish media group Mediapro emerging as the big winner at the expense of Canal+, a partner of the league since 1984. The news […]
Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings is worth an estimated $3.68 billion, says Forbes list of global billionaires. Hastings, and co-founder Marc Randolph, established the business in 1997-8. Hastings, says Forbes, still owns 2.5 per cent of the business. The company itself is now neck and neck in terms of overall valuation with Disney and […]
More than half of Internet users surveyed in the US, UK, Brazil, Japan and Germany watched video content out of their homes at least once a month, according to consumer surveys conducted in the first quarter of 2018 by business information provider IHS Markit. Of those viewers, one out of six did
Mediaset Spain has teamed up with Warner Bros and Netflix to produce its first TV series with the streaming service to be broadcast on Tele 5 first and on Netflix Internationally in a later phase. The TV Series, Brigada Costa del Sol, will be filmed in Torremolinos, south of Spain, this summer and is based […]
A study from Juniper Research forecasts that unique viewers of eSports (competitive playing of video games) and let’s play content (tutorials and talk-throughs of game content) will reach 858 million by 2022, up from 630 million this year. This will equate to 1 in 10 of the global population by 2022. The report, eSports, Let’s Play […]