Canadian cinema chain and online home entertainment retailer Cineplex Entertainment has confirmed that Cineplex Store customers are now able to collect and enjoy digital home video entertainment with digital content ecosystem UltraViolet. Cineplex Entertainment is the first retailer in Canada and the only motion picture exhibitor in the world offering the service. Now in Canada, […]
Intertrust Technologies Corporation, the leader in trusted distributed computing, today announced that Tencent has licensed its trusted suite of Marlin DRM solutions to protect video streams and downloads on Tencent’s online video platform in China. Under the agreement, Tencent’s online video platform (web portal and video client services) will use Intertrust’s complete suite of Marlin […]
Oprah Winfrey’s likely confessional TV interview with Lance Armstrong will be streamed live globally. The interview scheduled for next Thursday is widely expected to contain some doping admissions by the disgraced former Tour de France winner. The interview will take place at Armstrong’s home in Austin, Texas and will be aired on OWN: Oprah Winfrey […]
HBO, the US premium pay channel and OCS, the French movie and TV series service, have renewed their multi-year agreement. This agreement confirms and bolsters OCS’s position as the first exclusive broadcaster of HBO programming in France. OCS will continue to air HBO’s new TV series and to offer them 24 hours after their premiere […]
Adult programming is not allowed on Indian TV, but some broadcasters continually try to get around the legislation. A special committee of India’s Information & Broadcasting regulator has issued a tough set of penalties on three channels that pushed their luck. The SS TV Channel had showed a movie trailer back in September for an […]
History HD has launched for the first time to audiences in Greece following a deal between A+E Networks UK, a joint venture between A+E Networks and BSkyB, and OTE TV, a pay TV service in Greece. OTE TV is available across Greece via satellite and IPTV. The network provides its subscribers with more than 70 […]
FUEL TV has started 2013 on a high note with its launch on OSN, the leading pay-TV network in the Middle East and North Africa. FUEL TV which focuses exclusively on core action sports and the lifestyle that surrounds them is now the fastest growing action sports channel in the region, following the buy-out of […]
BT Vision has signed Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN), to bring leading TV entertainment channels, MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon, to BT Vision’s line-up of linear channels. Marc Watson, BT’s chief executive of TV, said: “We’re really excited about these channels coming to BT Vision – we’re certain our viewers will love them. MTV is […]
Nagra and HD Plus, a subsidiary of satellite provider SES, have confirmed the launch of HD Plus’ new OTT catch-up service of private channels (Mediathek), HD+ Replay, further extending the companies’ content protection partnership from satellite to Internet TV. Available immediatly, HD+ Replay will use Nagra’s multi-device and multi-network DRM solution, NAGRA MediaAccess PRM (Persistent […]
Major Hollywood studios and consumer electronics manufacturers have revealed an initiative designed to boost the take up digital content ecosystem UltraViolet and shift movie sales to a multi-device future. At a Day One keynote at CES 2013 in Las Vegas, CEA President and CEO Gary Shapiro introduced a group of Hollywood studio executives to […]