Amazon Prime Video’s Lord Of The Rings original TV series is still in pre-production, but it has already been renewed for a second season. Amazon revealed to Deadline that a sequel is already in the pipeline and that the show will go on a hiatus for some four months after filming the first two season […]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) an Amazon company, has announced that Network 10, one of Australia’s largest TV networks, has selected AWS Media Services to support its video transport structure for remote production in South Africa for its upcoming season of the reality TV series I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here, and to enhance […]
FOX News Digital finished the month of October delivering its largest month of multiplatform views to date, securing 1.9 billion multi-platform views, (a 24 per cent increase from October 2018) and 4.1 billion total minutes (a 10 per cent increase from October 2018). FOX News Digital also finished at number one in the news competitive […]
Edgeware & Enensys Technologies are forming a technological and global sales alliance. Edgeware, a provider of content preparation, unicast CDN and streaming solutions for broadband operators, and Enensys, a provider of Multicast ABR and LTE Broadcast media streaming solutions to network operators, will cooperate on key opportunities which leverage the strengths of each in their […]
Phil Spencer, head of Xbox, has said it will take “many years” before streaming video games becomes mainstream. The best gaming experiences was still be on gaming consoles or PC, Spencer said speaking to the BBC. His comments come as Google this week launches its video game streaming service Stadia. Xbox has a similar, rival […]
A network of TV piracy has been dismantled in Spain with the arrest of 12 people who illegally distributed pay-TV signals at a much lower price than the market to some 20,000 customers across the country. The pirates would have reportedly earned around €1 million. The police have closed down seven websites and several social […]
Claiming a further breakthrough in copyright protection, Chinese online entertainment service iQIYI has revealed that its self-developed watermarking system has passed the security evaluation test of the ChinaDRM Lab under Academy of Broadcasting Science, NRTA (National Radio and Television Administration), making iQIYI the first online video platform in China to receive such an accreditation. In […]
Ad-funded streaming service Pluto TV has launched four new seasonal pop-up channels to get viewers into the festive mood; Pluto TV Christmas, Fireplace, Holiday Lights and Pluto TV Mistletoe are now available in the UK on all common OTT devices and app stores. Pluto TV Christmas features family-friendly movies and specials that will seeks to […]
At the Stockholm Film Festival, Netflix announced two new excusive movies coming out of the Nordics: Red Dot from Sweden, produced by SF Studios and Cadaver from Norway, produced by Motion Blur. Action-thriller Red Dot and horror movie Cadaver will premiere exclusively on Netflix. Netflix also announced the global acquisition of the Danish feature film […]
SPI/FilmBox continues to expand its presence across the African continent through partnerships with Azam TV, MTN Group and habeshaview. Subscribers to these platforms will have access to eight of SPI/FilmBox’s channels including FilmBox Africa, which features Hollywood movies and TV series from leading directors and producers. “We are proud to partner with Azam TV, MTN Ghana via Silver Rock Technology Services and habeshaview to introduce eight of our […]