Veteran football broadcasters Danny Baker and Danny Kelly are to reform their broadcasting partnership to front an interactive football show for BT Sport. “Baker and Kelly’s Vaguely Sporting Phone-Out” will run on Friday evenings for 40 weeks throughout the 2013-2014 season on BT Sport. The first show will air on August 16th, the day before […]
Alticast, a specialist in interactive TV open standard software solutions has announced that T-Broad, Korea’s largest Cable MSO, has deployed Alticast’s Windmill Ecosystem. Based on the HTML5 next generation open web standard, Windmill provides T-Broad with a powerful future proofed TV application development platform free from vendor lock-in. Alticast’s Windmill is an ecosystem of open […]
Viaccess-Orca, a global leader in the protection and enhancement of content services, will showcase its engagement and security solutions at the ANGA COM Exhibition & Congress from June 4-6 in Cologne, Germany. Viaccess-Orca’s services are designed to offer effective responses to the growing threat of content services piracy by protecting content rights, assets and revenues, […]
The BBC Trust has said that iPlayer updates do not prioritise iOS. In a document published online, the Trust said that it found no evidence to suggest iOS had been “unfairly favoured”. The watchdog was investigating a complaint suggesting that certain features were implemented on the iPhone operating system before Android – primarily the ability […]
eyeIO has confirmed that its UltraHD compression encoding technology has been licensed by Sony Pictures to enable the studio to offer the first-ever 4K UltraHD content delivered to the home. Owners of Sony Electronics 4K UltraHD TVs will be able to access a selection of 4K movies delivered to their sets via Sony’s 4K media […]
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has secured another victory as he fights extradition to the US. New Zealand’s Justice Winkelmann says police must return items they seized in the raid on the his mansion. Anything ruled irrelevant to the Internet piracy case has to be returned to Dotcom and police have to contact their counterparts in […]
Dailymotion, the online video portal, is building upon its sports content through a strategic partnership with sports video news agency sntv. Founded in 1996, sntv has become an valuable service for more than 400 international broadcasters and digital platforms. Over the years sntv has developed relationships with all of the major rights-holders to enable it […]
FremantleMedia Kids & Family Entertainment and Magic Ruby, a provider of technology and apps for the second screen, have announced the upcoming launch of Wizards vs Aliens on Hub Network will be supported by a second screen app available exclusively on iPad in the US. The app offers a comprehensive Wizards vs Aliens experience, providing […]
Anne Sweeney, President of Disney-ABC Television Group, has branded the Barry Diller-backed Aereo online TV service as “opportunistic piracy”. Interviewed at the AllThingsDigital conference, Sweeney said: “I think Aereo is wrong, it is illegal, and it is opportunistic piracy, It’s taking advantage of our content, of our creative community, and using it for their own […]
The success of content ownership ecosystem UltraViolet will depend on the actions of those major studio, CE and online players who are currently holding out against UltraViolet, according to ABI Research. By 2018, the firm expects active UltraViolet (UV) accounts (those with multiple movies) to exceed 65 million worldwide – up from the estimated 6 […]