Dolby Laboratories and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE) have announced the first slate of titles now available in UHD with Dolby Vision high dynamic range (HDR) imaging. Dolby Vision titles now available for purchase and rental on OTT service VUDU include the all-new release The Huntsman: Winter’s War, and fan favourites Lucy, Oblivion, and Lone […]
NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company and independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, in partnership with MTM, a research and strategy consultancy, have revealed the APAC findings from the Pay-TV Innovation Forum research programme. This latest paper reviews the pay-TV landscape in the Asia Pacific region and confirms that growing competition is driving […]
ITV is switching off all seven of its channels for an hour to encourage people to take part in sport following Team GB’s Olympics success. ITV will stop broadcasting from 9:30am on August 27th as part of the I Am Team GB campaign. The move, organised with the National Lottery, will also see thousands of […]
A+E Networks UK will launch Blaze on Freeview in the UK and Ireland on September 20th. Entertainment chanel Blaze is a new brand from A+E Networks and its first global free-to-air brand, slated initially for the UK. The channel will be carried on the Freeview platform and on Sky. Blaze will simultaneously launch as a TV Everywhere (TVE) service, offering live streaming and […]
SES has announced a record uptake of its satellite capacity for the Olympics as compared to previous Games. A total of 23,000 hours of capacity has been booked on four SES satellites – NSS-806, SES-4, NSS-7 and SES-3 – to enable transmission of the Games to broadcasters in The Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. SES […]
Netflix and hospitality sector specialist Enseo have agreed a deal expanding Enseo’s rights to distribute the Netflix app on select Enseo devices to any hotel under a specific contract with Enseo in any country where the Netflix service is available. “Our partnership with Enseo brings Netflix members a high quality viewing experience on their hotel […]
Currys PC World has been reprimanded for misleading adverts for 4K TVs by the Advertising Standards Autohority (ASA). The UK’s advertising watchdog upheld a complaint that the electronics chain had encouraged viewers to believe they could watch ultra-HD broadcasts of the Euro 2016 football championship – but no UK broadcaster offered coverage of any of […]
IABM has entered a strategic partnership with AIB – the Association for International Broadcasting. IABM membership comprises 450 broadcast and media technology suppliers worldwide; AIB represents 70 major international broadcasters and has an active community of 27,000 senior executives in media companies in over 160 territories. The partnership brings together both ends of the industry […]
Pay-TV subscriptions for the top 65 operators across 17 countries covered in the Asia Pacific Pay-TV Operator Forecasts report from Digital TV Research will increase by nearly 100 million from a collective 438 million in 2015 to 536 million by 2021. Covering 87 platforms, these operators will climb from 81 per cent of Asia Pacific […]
America’s presidential election coverage helped Fox News maintain its leadership in US cable TV’s primetime ratings, with an average of 1.7 million viewers last week (according to Nielsen). Fox News, with its coverage of the National Conventions has enjoyed a solid summer of ratings. Cable TV’s second spot went to Disney which averaged 1.3 million […]