Advanced Television

Content

BBFC, Netflix age ratings partnership

Responding to parents’ demand for greater consistency across video on demand and online games platforms, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has launched what it says is an innovative new industry collaboration with Netflix to move towards classifying all content on the service using BBFC age ratings. Netflix will produce BBFC age ratings for […]

March 14, 2019By Colin Mann

Gogo adopts AWS

In-Flight Entertainment specialists Gogo is adopting Amazon’s cloud-based Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host its entire infrastructure to AWS, going all-in on the world’s leading cloud-based service. Gogo says it has already migrated the vast majority of its commercial and business aviation divisions to AWS and is leveraging a range of AWS services, including analytics, […]

March 14, 2019By Chris Forrester

Telefónica wins RTVE’s TV streaming

Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has awarded Telefónica, through a public tender, the distribution of its streaming signal via all digital platforms. Telefónica will now handle the live transmission of CRTVE.es, the streaming service available on mobiles, tablets and Smart TVs, including the HbbTV technology used in the joint platform LOVESTV formed by RTVE, Mediaset and […]

March 13, 2019From David Del Valle in Madrid

Survey: TV most popular medium for live viewing

In a global survey of consumers of OTT and live services, conducted on behalf of Nevion, almost three-quarters (70 per cent) of respondents said they still watched the majority of programmes on a television, while only one-fifth (20 per cent) regularly view content on their laptop. The survey from Nevion, a provider of virtualised media […]

March 13, 2019

beIN loses Asian Champions League contract

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has cancelled its TV contract with beIN Sports for broadcasting into Saudi Arabia. The decision immediately affected Tuesday’s Asian Champions League match between Saudi side Al-Hilal and Qatar’s Al-Duhail. The Saudi Arabian Football Federation (SAFF) announced on March 12th that it had received an official letter from the AFC revoking […]

March 13, 2019By Chris Forrester

Netflix to create more interactive content

Netflix is set to increase its focus on producing interactive content following the success of the Black Mirror episode Bandersnatch. The episode, released in December 2018 and inspired by choose-your-own-adventure novels, allowed viewers to make key decisions for the lead character as he attempts to create and launch a video game in the mid-80s. Speaking […]

March 13, 2019

Xite music video app debuts in US

International music video service Xite has announced the debut of the “ultimate music video experience” in the US – with its all-new user and artist friendly streaming app across set-top boxes, connected devices, and smart TVs. Availability on mobile devices and tablets will follow in the second half of 2019. Xite is now on Amazon […]

March 13, 2019

UAE jails OSN pirates

A pay-TV pirate has been fined AED 50,000 (about €12,000) and sentenced to 3 months in prison for infringing OSN’s copyrights and intellectual property rights. The dealer was pirating output from India’s Dish TV in the Emirates. However, the fine is extraordinarily modest considering that the pirate was found with more than 2000 illegal set-top […]

March 12, 2019By Chris Forrester

Dutch card sharing pirate convicted

The operator of a Netherlands-based card sharing piracy network has been convicted and sentenced to a conditional six-month prison sentence, with a probation period of three years, and 240 hours community service, by a court in The Hague. The conviction is the latest in a series of positive results of collaborative investigations led by Dutch […]

March 12, 2019By Colin Mann

Netflix to create original anime content

Netflix has entered into partnerships with Anima, Sublimation and David Production. These production houses and Netflix will jointly create original anime series including the animated series Altered Carbon: Resleeved from Anima. Altered Carbon is based on Netflix’s original live action science fiction series whose first season launched in February of 2018 and for which a […]

March 12, 2019