Private Media Group, a specialist in adult entertainment products, has announced its results for the three-month period ended June 30, 2011. The company had net sales of €4.7 million compared to net sales of €6.0 million for the three months ended June 30, 2010, a decrease of €1.3 million, or 22 per cent. Internet sales […]
Austrian telecom group Telekom Austria lowered its full year outlook after it reported a decline in second quarter earnings in line with estimates. The group said it now aims to reach a core profit of up to €1.55 billion and sales of around €4.5 billion. Previously it had forecast a largely flat core profit of […]
A letter from News Corp’s lawyers Harbottle & Lewis is going to make life extremely difficult for James Murdoch. The damning letter, revealed by the lawyers to a UK parliamentary enquiry, in effect confirms that bosses at disgraced newspaper the News of the World knew all about the now notorious phone-hacking methods, and that such […]
Bell Aliant has selected Sigma Systems to deploy its Telco Services Accelerator solution to simplify the provisioning and activation of triple-play bundles on its Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) network. The Canadian telco’s FibreOP network currently passes nearly 300,000 homes and business across a number of provinces in Canada. Sigma Systems’ Telco Services Accelerator has been combined with […]
US consumers who expect to buy a 3DTV during the next year plan to spend 56 per cent more than those buying a regular HDTV, according to the latest research from the Strategy Analytics Connected Home Devices service. The report – 3DTVs: Buying Intentions and Early Adopter Feedback – finds that the average expected price […]
A report by market research group Interpret reveals that although Internet-connected devices in the living room have proliferated to over half of US consumers, they remain under-utilised for TV and movie entertainment. According to Interpret’s study, only 22 per cent of those who own a gaming console connected to the Internet have used it to […]
Fox Broadcasting is encouraging pay-TV customers to demand that their providers participate in its “TV Everywhere” service. Fox has stopped providing new episodes at Fox.com and Hulu.com the day after they air, making them available only to subscribers of participating “TV Everywhere” distributors (as well as Hulu Plus) for eight days following their TV premiere. […]
TiVo said it plans to buy back up to $100 million of its stock over the next two years. The company said it will fund the share repurchase programme through existing cash. The move comes as the company’s stock has floundered around the $8 mark after sitting at over $12 in April and more than […]
The transition from older-style can-type tuners to silicon TV tuners finally began to occur in 2010. Today, the top TV set manufacturers are actually putting silicon tuners directly on their main TV chassis boards and many ODMs are using can-type modules that contain silicon tuners and demodulators. In addition, mobile video services in China, Brazil, […]
The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has launched development of a 3D broadcast TV standard that will provide methods for transmission of 3DTV content to both fixed and mobile devices, the standards development organisation has confirmed. “The addition of 3DTV over-the-air TV broadcast transmission is part of our ongoing effort to expand the capabilities of […]