The BBC has launched a new version of BBC iPlayer specifically designed for TV viewing in the living room. The new, personalised version is designed to give audiences the control they want directly on the TV, so the BBC iPlayer experience feels just like TV. BBC iPlayer is now available on more than 300 different […]
The personal entertainment experience has embarked on a significant shift now that on-demand delivery of video is widely available worldwide and to an increasing number of connected devices, according to IMS Research. The research firm forecasts that in 2016, over-the-top (OTT) video services will generate $16.4 billion in 2016 and video-on-demand (VOD) services from pay-TV […]
Panasonic is still firmly wedded to its ‘active’ 3D TV system, and to help overcome criticisms that its 3D spectacles are too heavy – and expensive – when compared to ‘passive’ specs, Panasonic is introducing a lightweight range of glasses. Pannasonic’s prosaically named TY-EW3D models were released in Japan last week and will migrate to […]
Elisabeth Murdoch, daughter of News Corporation Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, will not after all be joining the company’s Board as had been suggested at the time of News’ £415 million acquisition of her television production company the Shine Group. “I expect Liz Murdoch to join the board of News Corporation on completion of this […]
The latest figures released by The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG), a body made up of 70 companies such as Walt Disney, Time Warner and Samsung, suggest that overall, consumer spending on home entertainment has declined. The DEG’s Mid-Year 2011 Home Entertainment Report is compiled by its members, tracking sources and retail input. The DEG says […]
Viacom Group has reported a 37 per cent increase in profits for the quarter that ended in June. The company’s net earnings of $574 million, were up from $420 million, in the same quarter last year. The company reported revenues of $3.77 billion, up from $3.27 billion. Viacom credited a robust television advertising market, solid […]
Operators around the globe are waiting for the price of next-generation Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) technologies to drop before they replace existing FTTH equipment, according to a report from Infonetics Research. The next-generation FTTH technologies which currently feature prominently on operators’ shopping lists are believed to include 10G EPON, XGPON1 (asymmetric 10G PON) and WDM-PON. However, despite […]
Following the unfavourable weather conditions which led to the postponement of the scheduled August 5 launch of Arianespace Flight 203, the craft was successfully launched on August 6th at 19.52 pm local time (00:52 pm Central European Summer Time August 7th) from Kourou, French Guiana. The mission placed into geostationary transfer orbit the Astra 1N […]
Russian broadcasting has had something of a roller-coaster ride this past couple of years, hurt badly by the advertising downturn, and CTC Media (Russia-based but NASDAQ registered) has seen its share-price suffer commensurately as revenues slumped. CTC operates two national free-to-air networks in Russia (CTC and Domashny, and DTV) with others in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. […]
Canada’s Telesat has been having major troubles with its Telstar 14R/Estrela do Sol-2 satellite launched back on May 24th. One of its solar arrays has failed to open correctly which has left the craft working at just 60 per cent of capacity, equal to about 32 transponders. The craft is expected to operate on station […]