DTH subscriptions will continue to grow, achieving 71 percent of the pay-TV market by 2016, says a report from Dataxis. By the end of this year DTH will edge past cable subscriptions (51 per cent versus cable’s 49 per cent), following a growing trend towards DTH subscription. At present, in Mexico, DTH is operated by […]
Animation and family movies have driven a two-week school holiday record for BigPond Movie downloads in Australia. “We achieved our biggest ever two-week school holidays for BigPond Movies with more than 120,000 movies downloaded and had close to 13,000 movie downloads via the T-Box in one day,” Telstra’s Executive Director of Media J-B Rousselot said. […]
Private Media Group, a provider of adult entertainment products, has announced that the company is expanding its VoD offering by signing a partnership with France’s AB Groupe to supply its VoD website XXL with Private’s premium quality content. Available to consumers via Free IPTV France, and launched in 2010, XXL is a dedicated adult cinema […]
LYNX Technik AG, provider of modular interfaces is expanding its yellobrik series with the launch of HDMI to SDI converters at IBC 2011 stand 8.E24. The two new yellobriks are: · CHD 1812 – HDMI to SDI Converter with an integrated Frame Synchronizer · CHD 1802 – HDMI to SDI Converter The new yellobriks convert […]
Italian media company Tivuitalia has received approval from the country’s Ministry of Economic Development for the activation of 44 new DTT transmitters. The new transmitters, representing a 30 per cent increase compared to the sites currently operated by Tivuitalia, are located in the regions of Northern Italy and Sardinia where the analogue switch-off has already […]
Digital TV technology specialist Motive Television has revealed what it describes as a “major advancement” in its Television Anytime Anywhere platform enabling the seamless loading of recorded movies and other pre-recorded material to laptops, iPads and other tablet and mobile devices. The advancement – dubbed ‘Video to Go’ – allows viewers to transfer a recorded […]
Brazil’s National Telecoms Agency is looking to license four new orbital slots for extra satellites. The idea is to have the slots secured and occupied with new satellites by 2014 – when the country will again go soccer crazy as it hosts the FIFA World Cup tournament. Sky Brazil has already said it is interested. […]
Pay-TV group Modern Times Group has published its financial results for the six months ended 30 June 2011. Net sales were up 9 per cent year on year at constant exchange rates and up 3 per cent year on year at reported exchange rates to SEK 3.531 billion (€0,385bn). Record operating income before associated company […]
Baidu, the Chinese Internet search company, has signed a deal with three major record labels allowing it to offer free music downloads to users. The deal represents a coup for the company, which has beaten Western rivals such as Google to the punch. The US company, along with Amazon, recently announced the launch of a […]
Morega Systems, a developer of content portability solutions, has received patent approval for its breakthrough content portability technology. This unique content delivery solution gives satellite, cable and IPTV service providers, and equipment manufacturers an alternative way to extend premium, multimedia content beyond the television and the set-top box to support the Connected Home and TV […]