Telefonica’s Movistar TV has launched a 3D version for pay-TV subscribers in Peru. Telefonica wrapped an agreement with LAPTV’s premium channel Moviecity which will provide its movies. “It is the first and only channel in the region”, said José Miguel Gamero, Telefónica Multimedia – Movistar TV General Manager. Clients who have glasses and TV sets […]
Alternative pay-TV provider REAL Digital is looking to launch its service on September 1, following the release of its set-top box into the UK retail market in the summer of 2011. David Henry, Managing Director of REAL Digital, told delegates at the Futuresource Entertainment Summit in London that the service would be transmitted from the […]
Argentina is allowing new DTH, cable and IPTV entrants to offer pay-TV services. Colsecor, a co-operative of some 270 small cable TV operators, is looking to expand into DTH, for example. Colsecor says it is applying to Argentina’s Federal Authority of Audiovisual Communication Services for a DTH licence. Colsecor is already talking to Uruguay’s STDC.TV […]
According to The Diffusion Group’s (TDG’s) latest analysis of ‘Netflix Streamers’ – those who stream Netflix content to their net-connected devices – the inclination to downgrade pay-TV services has doubled in just the last 12 months. In March 2011, TDG queried a random sample of adult broadband users that subscribe to cable, satellite, or telco […]
The BBC will begin the process of introducing its international iPlayer to overseas audiences with iPads later this year. Users in western Europe will have to pay somewhere under €8 a month for the service. Jana Bennett – president of worldwide networks and global iPlayer at BBC Worldwide – says the international version of the […]
It’s the golden age of the empowered consumer, with the demand for digital experiences increasing and becoming the norm, according to the latest Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2011-2015 from PwC. In many markets the Entertainment & Media (E&M) industry emerging from the recession has been profoundly changed as the ongoing consumer migration to digital […]
Beginning in July, all Sky TV customers will have the opportunity to watch Sky channels and programmes on PCs, laptops, mobiles and tablets at no extra charge. Available free to all Sky TV customers from July 6, Sky Go – which brings together two existing services: Sky Player, Sky’s online TV service, and Sky Mobile […]
Some 338 million digital homes were added around the world between 2006 and 2010, according to a new report from Digital TV Research (DTVR). The Digital TV World Databook estimates that this took the digital TV household total for the 73 countries covered to 576 million. Digital penetration climbed from 18.9 per cent at end-2006 […]
Orbit Showtime Network (OSN), the Dubai-based pay-TV operator, says it is seeking a 25 per cent growth in subscribers this year. OSN’s new CE, David Butorac, appointed last September and replacing Marc-Antoine d’Halluin, admitted in a local interview that piracy had been a major problem for operators in the region. Butorac started out his TV […]
Malcolm Wall, the former Chief Executive for Content of Virgin Media, is to become Chief Executive Officer of Abu Dhabi Media with effect from September 1st. Abu Dhabi Media manages more than 20 market-leading brands and operates within Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates and the wider Arab community. Wall ran Virgin Media’s television business, […]