Advanced Television

VOD

Mediapro GolTV pay-TV channel

Mediapro, shareholder in the commercial channel La Sexta, is launching GolTV (Goal TV), a pay-TV channel specifically dedicated to football that will be initially distributed via cable and ADSL. The channel will also be on DTT when the Government changes the legislation to allow pay DTT content. The channel will include football matches from the […]

August 20, 2008

Brits break free of TV schedule

Of the tens of millions of Brits now watching digital TV, almost half (48 per cent) in the survey say they now control what they watch and when they watch it using digital video recording (DVR). The biggest reasons for the popularity in digital TV and DVR is to avoid scheduling conflicts but also gives […]

August 20, 2008

iPlayer set for H.264 and AAC

Writing on the BBC Internet blog, Huggers suggested that the BBC has always been a strong advocate and driver of open industry standards. "Without these standards, TV and radio broadcasting would simply not function," he wrote. "I believe that the time has come for the BBC to start adopting open standards such as H.264 and […]

August 15, 2008

Impact for Comcast, MGM

The new channel, available first to Comcast customers this week, features a host of exciting and popular action films and television shows, many available in high-definition (HD). Matt Strauss, Senior Vice President, New Media, Comcast Cable said movies were a very popular feature on VOD

August 14, 2008

blinkx Remote service

Leveraging blinkx's patented video search technology, blinkx Remote filters out video spam, illegal clips, and inappropriate material that has been falsely tagged and will find only full length, legally available, episodes of TV programmes. blinkx does not have partnership deals with broadcasters to operate the service, but uses publicly available programme data in the same […]

July 31, 2008

CBS: Streaming doesn’t hurt TV viewing

US network CBS says it has found streaming full-length episodes of primetime series is mostly additive for the broadcast networks and does little to threaten TV viewing. According to a report issued by CBS Interactive, less than half of the network’s online audience (46 per cent) primarily view shows online, and most say that the […]

July 22, 2008

Facebook, ITV grow online video

Facebook and ITV.com were the only major websites other than YouTube to significantly increase their share of the UK’s web video market over the past year.Both Facebook and ITV.com launched new video offerings over the year to the end of May, growing their market share from a very low base to create a monthly audience […]

July 18, 2008

YouTube on TiVo

TiVo is to offer thousands of its subscribers the ability to stream YouTube videos onto their television sets through their broadband-enabled TiVo boxes. It’s TiVo’s first deal for streaming online content, though the company has partnerships with 60 Internet sites that provide content to TiVo. Unlike with those relationships, TiVo users won’t be able to […]

July 18, 2008