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US UHD set sales up 119% y-o-y

Consumer spending on home entertainment products was strong for the second quarter of 2016, rising six per cent from the year earlier period, according to the Second Quarter 2016 Home Entertainment Report compiled by members of DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group, tracking sources and retail input. Boding well for the home

August 5, 2016

Pub fined £50k for illegal Sky Sports football

A pub landlady in the UK Midlands city of Birmingham has been fined £50,000 (€58,940) after being caught illegally showing football on Sky Sports, having earlier received a final warning for committing an identical offence. She was also told to pay £24,000 costs for breaching copyright by showing the Premier League games. Sky Sports brought […]

August 5, 2016By Colin Mann

BBC rethinks Red Button for Rio Olympics

In close collaboration with product and editorial teams from BBC Sport, BBC Live and BBC News – and along with colleagues in Engineering and User Experience & Design – BBC Design & Engineering has reimagined the BBC’s connected TV experience ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, relaunching its News, Sport and, most recently, Red […]

August 5, 2016

Magine to reach over 100m Chinese homes

Swedish streaming television platform Magine has announced an agreement with a Beijing-based digital TV system integrator and operator to build, launch and operate an Internet-based video streaming system for the Chinese market. In parallel, Magine has established the Magine Asia Unit, based in Hong Kong. The agreement comprises the establishment and operation of an Internet […]

August 5, 2016

ProSiebenSat.1 Q2 revenue up 15%

German pay-TV broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has reported Q2 revenues of €886 million, up 15 per cent, and EBITDA of €254 million, up 7 per cent. Digital and adjacent revenues grew 43 per cent year-on-year to reach €263 million. HD subscribers on all platforms grew from 5.7 million to 6.7 million in the year to June. ProSiebenSat.1 […]

August 5, 2016

Public Knowledge: ‘Copyright Office STB analysis flawed’

The United States Copyright Office has sent a letter to Congress claiming that the Federal Communications Commission’s set-top box proposal “could interfere with copyright owners’ rights to license their works, and [could] restrict their ability to impose … conditions on the use of those works.” US public interest advocacy group Public Knowledge finds that the […]

August 5, 2016By Colin Mann

AsiaSat provides live Olympics coverage

Starting from the opening ceremony and continuing non-stop until the closing of the Olympic Games on August 21st, AsiaSat will be providing multiple transponders on AsiaSat 5 along with uplinking services to deliver live Olympic TV coverage to right holders in the Asia-Pacific. “This is the most watched global sports event in the world. We […]

August 5, 2016

Gogo boosts IFE aircraft conversions

In Flight Entertainment (IFE) and broadband-in-the-sky specialists Gogo says that this year it will equip up to 100 aircraft with its satellite-delivered Ku-band IFE system. But next year that number will expand dramatically, with around 350-450 aircraft equipped with its technology. Gogo, in its Q2 results, said that some 600 new aircraft were now contracted […]

August 5, 2016By Chris Forrester

BBC Sport 360 for Rio Olympics

The BBC has launched BBC Sport 360, an experimental service bringing Rio 2016 live and on-demand to UK audiences in 360 degree video for the first time. Armchair sports fans can get closer than ever to the Olympics action and enjoy a new perspective on a range of live sports, including the opening and closing […]

August 4, 2016

DISH introduces ‘skinny’ Flex Pack

US pay-TV platform DISH has launched what it describes as a new way to package and purchase pay-TV. The Flex Pack skinny bundle debuts at $39.99 (€35.90) per month with a core package of programming consisting of more than 50 channels and the choice of one of eight themed channel packs. Customers can add and […]

August 4, 2016