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Eleven Sports’ FA blackout strategy questioned

In the wake of the controversy around Eleven Sports’ intentional breach of the English Football Association’s (FA) longstanding blackout restriction on UK broadcasters, which was subsequently rescinded, geolocation-based security and digital content protection specialist GeoGuard has put the blackout to the test in terms of seeing how easy (or hard) it would be to circumvent […]

October 26, 2018By Colin Mann

Virgin Media Sport wins Ireland Formula E coverage

Virgin Media Television – the newly re-branded Irish broadcaster – will show all races from the fifth season of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship in Ireland. Fans of the electric street racing series will be able to follow the action live on Virgin Media Sport – the exclusive new sports channel available to Virgin […]

October 26, 2018By Colin Mann

UK less in favour of VR/AR & digital ads than US

Research from Matrix Solutions has revealed one in four UK consumers are annoyed that brands and media companies are injecting ads into originally produced VR and AR content, compared to one in five US consumers. Research also revealed UK consumers are more indifferent to advertising in AR or VR than American consumers, with over half […]

October 26, 2018

NAGRA secures Sky Italia’s DVB-T pay-TV service

NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company and independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, and Sky Italia, the Italian digital satellite television platform owned by Sky, have launched a new DVB-T pay-TV service secured by NAGRA’s broadcast and direct-to-TV content protection technologies. The new terrestrial service is available on Sky Italia DVB-T set-top boxes […]

October 26, 2018

Ofcom: BBC losing the young

On a day where a group of British MPs has described the BBC’s pay decision-making as “opaque”, broadcast regulator Ofcom has suggested that the Corporation is generally delivering its remit for audiences, but it must go further in areas such as transparency, taking creative risks and attracting young people, according to the watchdog’s annual report […]

October 25, 2018By Colin Mann

Broadpeak joins Streaming Video Alliance

Broadpeak, a provider of content delivery network (CDN) and video streaming solutions for content providers and pay-TV operators worldwide, has announced that the company has joined the Streaming Video Alliance, an industry association dedicated to helping solve the critical challenges facing the online video market. Alliance members, which represent the entire video streaming ecosystem, work […]

October 25, 2018

Com Net chooses Anevia to launch TV platform

Anevia, a provider of OTT and IPTV software solutions, has been chosen by Com Net (CNI) to deliver cloud DVR and CDN services in the US as part of their hosted and managed OTT head-end. CNI is working with Minerva Networks to supply the hosted and managed video head-end for Minerva’s white label cloud video […]

October 25, 2018

EU football TV rights converge as EPL deflates

TV rights for Europe’s big five football leagues are increasingly aligned with their domestic TV market size and fan base size – at least for the time being – according to a report from Ampere Analysis. The slight drop in the value of the English Premier League (EPL) and the rise of the value of […]

October 24, 2018

Verimatrix acquires Akamai Identity Services

In a move that adds TV Everywhere service capabilities to its portfolio, network-connected devices revenue security and enhancement specialist Verimatrix has acquired the assets that comprise the Akamai Identity Services (AIS) product from intelligent edge platform Akamai. Adding TV Everywhere (TVE) type service capabilities to the Verimatrix portfolio underscores the importance of a common authentication […]

October 24, 2018

Xfinite next-gen content platform

Blockchain-enhanced on-demand, online entertainment platform Xfinite has launched with the aim of redefining how entertainment-led content is consumed, produced and distributed. Its decentralised, blockchain-enhanced system is being designed better to meet the viewing trends of today’s digital content consumers while addressing limitations in current media production and distribution models. In Xfinite’s view, the provision of […]

October 24, 2018By Colin Mann