According to a BBC Monitoring report South African pan-regional broadcaster MultiChoice/DStv is losing “hundreds of thousands of dollars a year” because of signal piracy by Zimbabwean users of a pirate set-top box. The device, sold locally as the ‘Magic Box’ manages to decrypt DStv’s channels. Satellite decoder dealers say the Magic Box has been around […]
Telefónica Digital has said it expects to drive annual revenues of approximately €5 billion for its parent company Telefónica by 2015 with an annual revenue growth rate of 20 per cent. The Spanish company also announced global agreements with Facebook, Google, Microsoft and RIM to use Telefónica’s billing relationships so customers can pay for mobile […]
ITV and Samsung Electronics have confirmed the launch of ITV Player on Samsung’s Smart TVs. The agreement sees ITV become the first UK commercial broadcaster to launch an App in Samsung’s Smart TV store; Samsung Apps. ITV will join an ever-growing collection of services available on Samsung Smart TVs such as, YouTube, Teletext Holidays, Curzon […]
Sales of video entertainment on DVD, Blu-ray and digital formats are the single biggest revenue source for the production of film and television drama in the UK, a new report has confirmed. An Oxford Economics study commissioned by the British Video Association reveals that in a rapidly evolving market, video revenues remain critical to British […]
Next season the BBC’s Match of the Day 2 is to be switched to BBC1 because of the increased number of Premier League games played on a Sunday. Match of the Day 2 will now air on BBC1 at 10.25pm on a Sunday. The flagship Match of the Day programme will continue to be broadcast […]
Teletext Holidays has launched an app on Virgin Media’s TiVo box. The app – available on iPhones, iPads, Android devices and now through Virgin Media’s TiVo box – provides a quick and easy way to browse for value package holidays Aleks Habdank, director of digital entertainment at Virgin Media said in a statement: “The flexibility […]
IAB UK, in collaboration with ESPN in the UK, has published the results of research into fans’ media consumption around the Euro 2012 football tournament, to shed light the role played by online, mobile and social alongside more traditional media. The research – conducted with UK sports fans – found that while TV remains the […]
Ahead of the 2012 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix this weekend, the F1 companion experience on the Sky Sports for iPad app has added split-screen technology, meaning Sky customers can watch more of the action by selecting two live camera feeds simultaneously on the same screen. Viewers can choose from several different live video […]
The Chinese government has launched a new campaign targeting rampant online piracy through enhanced supervision and inter-agency coordination, according to a statement from the four ministry-level departments. The four-month campaign will highlight supervision over both content providers and online storage and search engine services, as well as e-commerce platforms. The four departments are the National […]
Munich based mobile cloud gaming company itsmy has announced the launch of its HTML5 gaming service for Set-top boxes and Smart TV. Now gamers can play their Smartphone and Tablet games from itsmy also on TV without buying them again as the games are played online in the itsmy game cloud. Gamers have now full […]