Broadcast specialist Vision247, announces the availability of its LG Smart TV app for broadcasters. This new app, available from the App Store on LG Smart TVs, enables broadcasters to extend the reach of online streamed content to audience via the latest LG internet connected TV sets. LG Smart TVs enable viewers to access a range […]
In a riposte to C4’s Jonathan Allan’s assertions that TV advertising was all about data and connectivity, ITV’s group commercial director Simon Daglish told a Carat advertising event that connectivity and evolving technologies will not end the role of traditional TV channels, they will only make them stronger. Daglish warned against overestimating the effect evolving […]
TV programmes have come to the Internet, and the Internet has gone to mobile devices. Now the Internet is coming back to TV, and software engineers and smart TV producers are finding ways to create new “hybrid” services that bring it all together. In-Stat research forecasts that 100 million households will actively use a hybrid […]
The BBC has launched iPlayer on Microsoft’s Xbox Live platform with an interface to tie in to Kinect motion control. All the broadcaster’s TV catch-up content will made available free of charge to all Xbox console owners. Other entertainment apps, including Channel 4 and 5’s equivalent catch-up players, are only available for the console’s Gold […]
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 […]
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics has revealed that it will focus on smart and 3D TV sales in the Middle East in order to strengthen its dominant presence in the large emerging market. The company said it aims to aggressively market its latest high-end TV sets and expand cooperative tie-ups with content suppliers to […]
Comigo, an Israel-based company, has announced the introduction of a feature-rich Smart TV platform that will considerably enhance the TV experience by uniquely extending viewing across all types of handheld devices, opening up revolutionary personalisation and interactive socialisation capabilities. Comigo’s advanced Smart TV platform includes applications for Smartphones and Tablets (Android and iOS based), an […]
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 […]
The European Commission is to produce a policy paper on Connected TV as part of its efforts to get every European digital and stimulate a vibrant market in ultrafast broadband. Delivering a keynote address at the Cable Congress in Brussels, Neelie Kroes Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, said that broadband […]
As the BBC prepares a big push for its online coverage of this summer’s Olympic games, Ralph Rivera, the BBC’s director of future media, says this year could be pivotal for TV’s next evolution. “Our aspiration is that 2012 will do for digital and connected televisions what the coronation did for TV,” he told the […]