The top TV moments from shows most valued by licence fee payers have been revealed by TV Licensing, the collection of companies contracted by the BBC to administer the collection of television licence fees and enforcement of the television licensing system. Dancing bears from Planet Earth II topped the list of memorable TV moments Twitter […]
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the sale of a multimedia player which enables films that are available illegally on the Internet to be viewed easily and for free on a television screen could constitute an infringement of copyright, suggesting that the temporary reproduction on a multimedia player of a […]
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has declared that teeing up the ATSC 3.0 transmission standard is a priority, suggesting it has the potential to let broadcasters offer much better service in a variety of ways. Addressing the NAB Show in Las Vegas, Pai noted that the convergence of Media, Entertainment, and Technology—the M.E.T. Effect—had created a […]
Virgin TV’s Director, Digital Entertainment Product Development, Louise Fussell and Dolby Laboratories’ Director of Imaging Standards and Technology, Simon Gauntlett have been appointed to the DTG Council – the governing body of the DTG, the UK’s unique self-funded collaboration centre for innovation in digital media technology. Louise joined Virgin’s Customer Experience team in 2009 as […]
Former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros, one of its accusers in the sexual harassment controversy, is now accusing it of a “criminal scheme” involving what she claims were illegal electronic surveillance and online harassment. In a complaint filed in a Manhattan federal court, Tantaros claims that Fox monitored her emails and listened to phone calls, […]
The Ultra HD Forum, the global organisation defining industry best practices for the introduction of technologies to facilitate the ultra-high-definition (UHD) viewing experience, has released the UHD Forum Guidelines version 1.3 including a new forensic watermarking chapter. This chapter is the result of the collaboration between leading watermarking technologies providers. In addition to an overview […]
Wowza Media Systems, a specialist in streaming video, and Haivision, an expert in high performance video streaming, have announced the founding of the SRT Alliance and the open source availability of SRT, a video transport protocol to enable the delivery of high-quality and secure, low latency video across the public Internet. Despite advances in internet […]
The government has given Ofcom and the competition authorities more time to investigate and recommend on the takeover of Sky by 21st Century Fox. The Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport, Karen Bradley, said she had extended the deadline because of the forthcoming general election. Regulators are examining the deal in the light […]
More than 75 per cent of US broadcast industry executives say they are excited about next-generation broadcast standard ATSC 3.0, while more than 70 per cent reported that their station’s conversion is either unscheduled or more than two years away. These results come from a survey of local broadcast television professionals fielded in January 2017 […]
In another blow to peddlers of illicit video piracy services and a further success for US pay-TV operator DISH on the heels of forcing the closure of an illegal IPTV operation, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has ruled to shut down unauthorised digital streaming and distribution by the providers of […]