Apple will let iTunes users rent movies as well as buy them and add Fox and Warner Bros as suppliers. According to reports Apple will announce the rental service later this month. New releases and older titles will rent for $3.99 for 24 hours. Meanwhile, Apple is to reduce the price it charges UK users […]
Sony Pictures Television has agreed to provide five-minute versions of several of its most popular TV shows for viewing through YouTube. Sony said the short versions, or 'minisodes', of programmes such as 'Married With Children' and 'Newsradio' will help expand the brand for the shows to the online universe. Some 21 shows will be available […]
The Fox Soccer Channel is now delivering video highlight content from England's football Premier League to V CAST Video-enabled phones. The relationship makes Verizon Wireless the first wireless distributor of Fox Soccer Channel's exclusive Premier League mobile highlight package, delivering more than 35 video clips per week, including near-live, in-game coverage to V CAST Video […]
blinkx has formed a partnership with ITN Source, one of the world’s leading providers of professional video content, to give blinkx viewers direct access to ITN Source’s market-leading collection of moving image libraries and stock footage on the Web. Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx will also place contextually relevant advertising against the footage, and […]
Sony has secured a content partnership with CBS Interactive for its Bravia Internet Video Link Module. The US network’s digital division will provide primetime and daytime programming, news and sports content to Sony from later this month. The module streams Internet video content directly to Sony’s compatible Bravia HDTV flat-screen sets without the need for […]
Landmark Communications, the privately owned US media company that owns The Weather Channel, said it was considering a sale. According to US reports the company could be worth more than $5 billion (E3.4bn), although moves are under way to split the business in two. “Landmark's weather, publishing, broadcasting, interactive and information businesses all have leading […]
Record labels and film studios cannot demand that telecom companies hand over the names and addresses of people suspected of breaking European copyright rules by swapping illegal downloads, the EU’s top court has ruled. But EU nations could introduce rules to oblige companies to hand over personal data in similar cases. The court upheld Spain's […]
CA and DRM specialist NDS has released its operating results for the quarter ended December 2007. Total revenue for the three-month period was $214.9 million, an increase of 30 per cent over the corresponding period of the previous year. For the six-month period ended December, 2007, revenue was $419.8 million, an increase of 28 per […]
UK media regulator Ofcom has issued a warning to broadcasters over user-generated content after ruling against two clips screened by Sumo TV. Ofcom said it was concerned that some TV channels were putting too much responsibility for complying with its broadcasting code on the creators of user-generated clips rather than performing sufficient checks themselves. The […]
Orange has signed a content agreement with leading international sports broadcaster Setanta, to be the first mobile operator in the UK to broadcast Setanta Sports 1, Setanta Sports 2 and Setanta Golf on its mobile portal, Orange World. Orange will be the only UK mobile operator able to stream live coverage of every televised match […]