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Premier League football on Viasat

Modern Times Group (MTG) has confirmed that Viasat Broadcasting has uired the exclusive TV broadcasting rights to England's Barclays Premier League in Sweden for the next three seasons. MTG currently has the television broadcasting rights to the Barclays Premier League in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Ghana. MTG will broadcast Premier League matches from the […]

March 23, 2010

China launches Mobile Multimedia Standard

China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting (CMMB), a domestic multimedia and mobile TV standard, has started commercial operation according to a joint announcement from China Mobile and China Satellite Mobile Broadcasting Corporation. China Mobile targets 5 million CMMB users and plans to offer a promotional package priced at RMB 6 per month with a free one-month trial. […]

March 23, 2010

Virgin Media launches HD STB

Virgin Media is aiming to make HD TV more affordable by ensuring customers do not need to pay extra for high definition. So far this year Virgin Media has announced the addition of six new HD channels with more to come. Consumers will soon be able to make the most of this growing line-up with […]

March 17, 2010

Akamai selected as Netflix partner

Akamai Technologies has been selected as the primary content delivery network for movies and TV episodes streamed instantly over the Internet by Netflix. Akamai gives Netflix a strong foundation for the continued growth of its ability to stream instantly, including Netflix's planned expansion to stream to one country outside the US later this year. By […]

March 17, 2010

Altibox deploys Agama STB

Agama Technologies has confirmed that the Norwegian triple-play service provider Altibox (formerly Lyse Tele) has selected to commercially deploy a full-scale Agama Embedded Monitoring Solution in their set-top box population. The installation monitors both IPTV and VOD services, and enables Altibox to ensure the quality of experience with their substantial and growing subscriber base.

March 17, 2010

US broadband plan: FCC wants open gateway for cable

The FCC wants the US cable industry to adopt an open-standard, “gateway” device to replace current set-tops by the end of 2012, according to extracts of the FCC’s National Broadband Plan. The cable industry has resisted a one-size-fits-all approach to set tops. The FCC wants the new “gateway” to be a standard interface that “bridges” […]

March 17, 2010

UK piracy bill clears Lords

Legislation to combat Internet piracy in the UK, including Internet bans for persistent illegal file-sharers, has cleared the Lords and now goes to the Commons where it may be rushed through before the general election. Peers passed the Digital Economy Bill, which has cross-party support, after further concessions on a controversial the “catch-all” clause 17. […]

March 17, 2010

KIT buys Multicast

The shakeout of the online video services space continues. KIT Digital, the online video tools player now based in Prague, has bought rival video player Multicast, for about $18 million, a week after it announced closing a $15 million equity offering. Of the $18 million KIT-Multicast deal, $4.9 million is in cash and the rest […]

March 17, 2010

Spain’s Imagenio launches basic IPTV offer

From David Del Valle in Madrid In an attempt to foster subscriptions, Telefonica-controlled IPTV platform Imagenio has launched a new basic tier called Imagenio Flexible, at a price of E10 a month, including a rental decoder. The new offer gives access to commercial TV channels, DTT platform, Regional channels, International news channels as well as […]

March 17, 2010

Sky and LG bringing 3D TV to pubs

Sky has purchased 15,000 3D TVs from the Korean TV manufacturer LG, which will be installed in pubs across the UK, in preparation for the roll out of the pub-only 3D sports channel next month. “The deal to supply the broadcaster with 15,000 3D TVs is the largest deal of its kind. Sky plans to […]

March 17, 2010