UK satellite operator Inmarsat has reported a 23 per cent rise in first-quarter core earnings, boosted by growth in its maritime unit that eased concerns about its performance after a badly received statement in March. The provider of telecommunications to ships, aircraft and military and aid services in remote areas said its core earnings rose […]
Rovi Corporation and Sony Electronics have revealed that Sony has launched Rovi Advertising Service, part of Rovi Cloud Services, on connected Sony Bravia TVs in the US, providing greater opportunities for brands to reach consumers. Under this new relationship, Rovi will sell and deliver advertising to the latest line of connected Sony Bravia TVs. Rovi […]
Harmonic has announced that TV Azteca, the second largest broadcaster in Mexico, has deployed Harmonic’s IP-based video processing solutions to facilitate satellite distribution of its expanded HDTV service to hundreds of retransmission sites throughout Mexico and Central America. The new DVB-S2-based distribution system relies on Harmonic’s multifunction compression and stream processing solutions to reduce the […]
Worldwide shipments of 3D TVs will jump by 463 per cent to reach 23.4 million units in 2011, according to IHS iSuppli research. The 3D TV projections in 2011 represent startling growth for the much-publicised technology, with shipments expanding by a factor of 5.5 from 4.2 million units last year. Another year of triple-digit growth […]
Sony Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer has apologised to users of the PlayStation Network and other online services. “As a company we – and I – apologise for the inconvenience and concern caused by this attack,” Stringer said on Sony’s US PlayStation blog. Sony issued its first warning on the break-in a week after it […]
Alongside its statement denying responsibility for the Sony data theft, hacker group Anonymous issued a warning to Viacom. It said that because of Viacom, “thousands of people have undergone the unfortunate experience of receiving falsely-claimed copyright infringements”. “Anonymous demands from Viacom a public press release to admit and apologise for the fraud and crimes that […]
Spanish cable operator Ono’s first-quarter revenues fell 2.2 per cent to €364 million with a net income dropping to €9 million, down almost 45.1 per cent from €17 in March 2010. First-quarter EBITDA amounted to €179 million, representing a 1.9 per cent increase over the same period last year, as a result of its costs-cut […]
Deutsche Telekom’s turnover dipped 8 per cent to €14.5 billion in Q1 with profit down 19 per cent to €1.6 billion. However its Entertain IPTV service grew to 1.257 million subs, up from 896,000 a year ago. In Hungary, Magyar Telekom topped 750,000 subs on IPTV and DTH during March, resulting in a 13.5 per […]
Viacom International and production group Endemol have partnered to launch an entertainment channel with a global brand to target the female market. Viacom Blink! will debut in Poland later this summer on pay-TV platforms Multimedia Polska and N, offering more than a million Polish households a schedule filled with Endemol programmes. Overseen by Viacom International […]
TCO Development has released the results of a study to compare the visual experience of active shutter eye-glasses or passive FPR (film pattern retarder) eye-glasses technology for viewing 3DTV. The study confirms that the two techniques differ in visual performance characteristics that affect the overall 3D experience. 3D functionality is becoming more common in computer […]