Richard Halton, BBC programme director for Project Canvas, has said it could accelerate growth in the market for connected TV devices by 70 per cent up to 2015. Canvas could also, he said, lead to between 500,000 and 870,000 homes going online, delivering a value of £300 million (E344m) over six years at today's prices. […]
The Conservatives have unveiled plans to deliver a “nationwide super-fast broadband”, part of which could be funded from the BBC licence fee. Shadow chancellor George Osborne said a Tory government would deliver speeds of 100 megabits per second (Mbps) to the “majority” of homes by 2017. He said cabling in rural areas could be paid […]
Virgin Media has claimed it can outpace BT on broadband speeds, reach parity with Sky in the range of its programming and has no pressing need to sell assets, so says CEO Neil Berkett laying out growth plans and forecasting a profitable future. Virgin Media secured an advantage over BT last year by offering customers […]
A radio scrappage scheme may be introduced to to persuade listeners to go digital.The radio equivalent of the car scheme could involve a 20 per cent discount on a new digital set if you bring in one of the 100 million or so analogue ones estimated to still be in circulation. Industry executives hope that […]
Virgin Media saw a record breaking 2009 with over 750 million on demand views, an increase of 50 per cent on the previous 12 months. Over 59 per cent of Virgin Media's 3.7 million TV customers are now regularly using the service, an increase of over a quarter of a million homes in a year. […]
More plans for Talk Talk TV were revealed as the company published documents about the demerger of its retail and telecoms interests. They reveal Talk Talk is likely to become a fully fledged TV operator in early 2011. It is involved in Project Canvas, the BBC-led consortium that is to launch an internet-connected TV set-top […]
China Digital TV, provider of conditional access systems to China’s television market, has made a joint investment in OpenV, a leading Chinese online video company, alongside one of OpenV's existing shareholders. China Digital TV's investment will be up to $14.5 million through which China Digital TV's equity interest in OpenV would be approximately 25 per […]
The Philippines government may push back the deadline for the migration to digital terrestrial TV given the unresolved matter of which platform will be adopted. “2015 might be a stretch to achieve. We have to move it, but hopefully not 2020,” Secretary Ray Anthony Roxas-Chua of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) said. […]
Pace Networks, a specialised division of digital TV technologies developer Pace, has signed Brazil-based Visionbyte as its first Networks Approved Partner (NAP) in the Latin American market. Pace Networks' global partner programme supports the rollout of its MultiDweller distribution platform, which Visionbyte will use to extend the reach of SD and HD services to smaller […]
Online movie rental outfit Netflix has reported results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2009. Netflix ended the fourth quarter of 2009 with approximately 12,268,000 total subscribers, representing 31 per cent year-over-year growth from 9,390,000 total subscribers at the end of the fourth quarter of 2008 and 10 per cent sequential growth […]