The Kudelski Group, owner of Nagravision, announced its 2011 half year results. Falling USD and EUR exchange rates heavily affected the Group first half results. Compared to the first half 2010, declining exchange rates against the Swiss Franc had a negative impact of CHF 67.0 million on Group’s revenues and CHF 27.4 million on Group’s […]
BBC World Wide has developed a video-on-demand app for Facebook that will allow users of the website to rent a limited number of Top Gear episodes using Facebook Credits. The corporation is initially offering three episodes for rent – at a cost of 15 Facebook Credits each, the equivalent of 93p. Once rented, episodes will […]
Reversing previous declines in market share, iTunes in the first half of 2010 managed to extend its leadership position in the US online movie market, according to the new IHS Screen Digest Media Research analysis provider IHS iTunes’ share of US consumer spending for movie electronic sell-through (EST) and Internet video on demand (iVOD) rose […]
Iran has launched ‘Hispan TV’, a global satellite news channel that is initially beaming its content to Latin America and in particular to Venezuela and the other Latino countries some of which have close political ties with Iran. BBC Monitoring is reporting that Hispan TV is part of the state-funded Press TV operation which […]
Dish TV, India’s largest direct-to-home operator, is set to launch Conditional Access Module (CAM), that will enable consumers with set-top boxes of other DTH service providers to switch to Dish TV’s feed of television channels. The product, branded as Dish Freedom, is priced at Rs 990, which includes an annual subscription of 95 channels. […]
Brazil’s senate last week passed new rules and regulations that cover telecommunications and the media in general. In essence Brazil has set quotas, although the new Bill (no. 116) has yet to be endorsed by Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff. It is suggested that foreign capital investments are relaxed. The new rules forbid vertical integration of […]
The global downturn is hitting TV set manufacturers hard. Sony, Panasonic and Hitachi have all expressed concerns about how many set the public will buy this year and next. The latest manufacturer to cut back its numbers is South Korea’s LG, which looks as if it will sell about 20 percent less flat-panel units than […]
Viasat Broadcasting announced that it has appointed Daniela Neumann as Vice President of Central Programming. Daniela Neumann is an experienced free-TV programming executive, having worked for LWT, ITV and Virgin Media Television, in production, commissioning and as channel controller. Most recently she has been the Acting Controller of Entertainment at ITV.
eyeSight Mobile Technologies, a developer of touch free interfaces for consumer electronics, signed a partnership agreement with Huan TV, China’s leading provider of content for connected TVs, to offer gesture recognition-based content to Huan’s subscribers. Huan TV will provide customers with special content for the connected TVs which are integrated with eyeSight’s Hand Gesture […]
If you restrict legal access to your content does that increase piracy? Yes, says TorrentFreak revealing that since Fox Network restricted its shows to an eight-day catch up on Hulu and Fox.com, illegal downloads of those shows has more than doubled. The torrent news Web site tracked several popular Fox shows–including Hell’s Kitchen and MasterChef–on […]