The Pirate Bay has revealed that it is turning to the skies to house its servers and is looking into sending a drone into low orbit, so that the only way someone can shut down its operations is by aeroplane. In a blog post Pirate Bay said they are fed up with ‘the heat they […]
ITV News has relaunched as a 24-hour, multi-platform streaming service in a bid to reach new digital audiences. It has overhauled its news website to focus on rolling live video streams, also optimised for smartphone and tablet devices. The site unites content from across ITV’s news programmes including Daybreak, ITN, and its nine regional news […]
The UK’s largest independent producer is set to shake up the video-on-demand market by allowing viewers to bypass services such as LoveFilm and Netflix and catch hit shows via its TV app. All3Media, producer shows such as Skins, Shameless. The Only Way is Essex and Peep Show, has struck a deal to launch a VoD […]
A court in Germany has instructed file sharing website RapidShare to find a way to filter pirated content from its servers. This ruling came after a number of parties complained about the site, which allows users to upload and share content for download. The court indicated that RapidShare has a part to play in the […]
Channel 4 has secured a four-year deal to broadcast the Grand National, Derby and Royal Ascot from 2013. The deal means Channel 4 will be the exclusive broadcaster of British racing on terrestrial television. The BBC put in as “competitive a bid as possible” to maintain the rights. BBC director of sport Barbara Slater said: […]
MobiTV has collaborated with Amino to develop a next generation TV Everywhere offering, consisting of an Amino set-top box fully integrated with MobiTV’s technology platform. The MobiTV TV Everywhere Media Player and DRM solution have been embedded within an Amino set-top box; creating a secure, high-quality adaptive streaming experience while eliminating the need for managed […]
At the South by Southwest festival MTV announced Artists.MTV, a project to let musicians “claim” and customise their pages among the thousands on MTV’s site. The idea is to collect in one place — namely MTV.com, whose sites have 60 million unique visitors each month — some of the traffic that might go off in […]
Zeebox has appointed Time Warner senior vice president Jason Forbes to head the second screen companion app’s business in the US. As US executive vice president, Forbes will build Zeebox’s American team and will be charged with developing partnerships with distributors, programmers and agencies. Zeebox chief executive Anthony Rose said Forbes “brings significant domain expertise […]
Vestel has confirmed it will add the PlayJam Games Channel to its extensive product line up of televisions and digital set-top boxes, of which the company has a manufacturing capacity of 15 million and 10 million units respectively each year. The games channel will be accessible from the front page of the user-interface and sit […]
BBC Director-General Mark Thompson has confirmed that the corporation intends to offer a download service of archive content over and above the seven-day catch-up service available via iPlayer. Addressing the Royal Television Society in London, Thompson noted that after the seven day public service window, a large proportion of what the BBC makes and broadcast […]