Some 300 rural Ghana villages can now receive satellite TV thanks to an initiative from StarTimes, and the project will formally be handed over to the country’s Ministry of Communications on November 16th. The scheme sees solar panels installed along with solar lighting as well as TV sets and decoders to the villagers. The project […]
ATP Media, the broadcast arm of the ATP World Tour, has revealed that it successfully produced and distributed a 1080p50 HDR test feed at the recent Next Gen ATP Finals in Milan last week Carried out in partnership with Gearhouse Broadcast, the test covered the live and non-live workflows on site, marking the first time […]
SVoD revenues across 138 countries will reach $35.04 billion (€40.1bn) in 2018, $10 billion more than the 2017 total and more than triple the 2015 total, according to the SVOD Databook report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. “No surprises that the US is the top earning country,” commented Simon Murray, Principal Analyst at Digital […]
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings insisted that the OTT broadcaster will not be reducing prices for its India subscribers. Hastings, talking to Reuters, said the current pricing regime – 500 rupees (€6.13) for a basic plan, 650 rupees for a standard plan and 800 rupees for premium – were already lower than those charged in the […]
Amazon has added anime fan favourite FunimationNow to its line-up of Prime Video Channels, becoming the first Sony Pictures Television service to launch on Prime Video in the UK. For an add on subscription of £4.99 per month with a 7-day free trial, Prime members who subscribe to FunimationNow will have access to hundreds of […]
DVB, an industry consortium that develops open interoperable technical specifications for the delivery of digital media and broadcast services, has collaborated with the HbbTV Association to create a DASH validation tool for application developers and content providers. The newly released tool conducts checks of ISO/IEC 23009-1 MPEG-DASH media presentation descriptions (MPDs) and segments to ensure […]
Comscore, the US measurement and analytics company, has revealed that AMC Networks, the entertainment company, and A&E Networks, the global content company, are the newest beta partners for Comscore Campaign Ratings (CCR). CCR is Comscore’s cross-platform video advertising measurement solution. “In a convergent television environment, it’s critical for us to measure and understand our audiences […]
Gaming giant Nintendo has announced that all its Wii console owners who use the system to watch streaming apps – including Netflix – will no longer be able to do so come January 2019. An email sent out to customers read: “Unfortunately, Nintendo will suspend all video streaming services on Wii—including the Netflix Channel. We […]
Harmonic has announced that SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation (SJC), a multi-channel pay-TV platform operator in Japan, is upgrading its DTH headend to support HD and UHD delivery using an IP-based video and stream processing solution from Harmonic. SJC has also deployed an integrated playout solution from Harmonic to simplify the delivery of HD channels. “As […]
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has declared he is looking forward to going up against Disney when it launches its own subscription streaming service, Disney Plus, in 2019. “We’ve been competing with Amazon for more than 10 years, so we’re used to healthy, strong competition,” he said, speaking to the BBC. “It makes us better.” Disney […]