Following yesterday’s reports in US press that Cisco was looking to sell Scientific-Atlanta, the company has moved to confirm its commitment to set-top boxes, describing such comments as “erroneous” and “unsourced”. In a Service Provider blog, Corporate Communications head John Earnhardt drew attention to comments made earlier in the month by Cisco Chairman and CEO […]
Netflix customer satisfaction plunged in the fourth quarter, a reflection of consumer anger over rising prices and changes to its subscription plans, according to a survey. Satisfaction with Netflix slid 14 per cent to 74 from a year earlier on a scale of 0 to 100, according to the American Consumer Satisfaction Index. That was […]
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has welcomed an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) move to allow governments to take “necessary actions” when foreign powers deliberately interfere with satellite transmissions. Member states approved a revision of the ITU regulations that will give governments greater powers to counter the practice. The decision was taken at this year’s ITU […]
The number of Spanish homes with pay TV in the first half of 2011 reached 21.9 per cent of all households, according to the latest report from the Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT). Two out of ten households already have pay-TV services, although there are big variances depending on the size of municipalities. Higher penetration rates […]
YahSat’s second satellite (Y1B), expected to be launched in a few days, has been delayed until April. The delays are the result of delays with the Russia Proton-ILS launch rocket over the December-January period, and two other technical glitches which happened prior the successful launch of SES-4 last weekend. Tareq Abdul Raheem Al Hosani, Yahsat’s […]
Sky Brazil, a major DTH operator operated by DirecTV, is to supply some of its movie content in OTT form on a VoD basis. It proposes charging the equivalent of $8.60 a month to access its portfolio, plus charging extra fees for certain individual downloads. Sky Brazil’s President, Luiz Eduardo Baptista da Rocha, said the […]
YahLive has allocated both satellite capacity and a number of HD channels to provide broadcasters with connectivity and service, from London to the Middle East, to facilitate TV coverage of the forthcoming London 2012 Olympics. Collaborating with its European strategic partners, YahLive will provide local connections and uplink facilities, including DVB/S2 MPGE4 encoding for satellite […]
Research from YouGov’s Media Consulting team reveals that though uptake and usage of social media services remains very high, the restless British public are now demanding more from these kinds of services. Two in five (41 per cent) of the UK online population claim to be getting bored of social media. Almost two thirds (65 […]
BBC Worldwide has become the first British distributor to license content to Hulu in Japan. The multi- year agreement will initially see around 600 hours of BBC programming made available on the multi-device platform, effective immediately. The deal represents the largest volume of BBC Worldwide content on any platform in Japan, with titles licensed across […]
The window for pay-TV operators to control the video-on-demand movie rental market is still open, but may not stay so for much longer, suggests market research company The NPD Group. According to NPD, current video-on-demand (VOD) market for paid movie rentals is ruled by pay-TV services, with revenues that reached $1.3 billion in 2011. The […]