Alcatel-Lucent’s DMS service is providing Telus with a digital storefront for its multimedia offering which includes applications, games, ringtones, and wallpapers to more than 7.9 million mobile and broadband Internet customers across Canada. Alcatel-Lucent Digital Media Store is an end-to-end managed and hosted service for multicontent stores that allows service providers to deliver high quality […]
TV Genius has revealed that Astra, Europe’s leading provider of satellite services, has selected the TV Genius Content Discovery Platform as it re-launches its website for consumers of DTH satellite in the UK, France and Germany. The TV Genius platform will enable consumers to search channel listings on the web for specific programmes or more […]
A report from user experience consultancy Webcredible says that the BBC iPlayer is leading major UK broadcasters in the VoD usability stakes with a score of 88 per cent, followed by Scottish broadcaster STV with its STV Player coming in second with 76 per cent Sky Player scored just 55 per cent, with admittedly a […]
Microsoft has revealed that the Sky Player app on its Xbox 360 games console will support the upcoming Kinect motion sensing gaming peripheral. The company said that when using Kinect, UK users will be able to browse Sky Player menus, pause TV programmes, rewind and fast-forward using only hand gestures. The new motion sensing gaming […]
Rovi, has announced a multiyear patent-licensing agreement with Apple. Apple is gearing up to ship Apple TV, a device that will let users rent TV shows and movies and play back content purchased through iTunes, starting later this month for a list price of $99. Rovi claims to have an intellectual-property portfolio comprising more than […]
NDS announced that leading Portuguese pay-TV operator ZON Multimedia will field trial its new TV platform, based on the NDS Snowflake User Interface (UI). In the first ever field trial of NDS Snowflake, ZON Multimedia will use the designer UI to deliver next generation TV services to its viewers across Portugal. The operator’s agreement with […]
TiVo, the digital video recorder maker, has reported a narrower loss than expected thanks to a pick-up in sales for its new Premiere recorder, but forecast a wider-than-expected net loss in the fiscal third quarter. The company said it expects a net loss in the range of $19 million to $21 million for its fiscal […]
New York-based marketing company Simulmedia has licensed TiVo’s second-by-second set-top box data to help television networks build audiences for programmes through more effective and targeted use of on-air promotion. Through this agreement, Simulmedia will use anonymous viewing data from TiVo’s vast network of subscribers to determine the effectiveness of on-air promotions in driving an audience […]
Ofcom has agreed to allow the BBC to restrict access to the EPG for Freeview HD programming. The BBC plans to restrict access to manufacturers of STBs and integrated Freeview HD TV’s that include copy protection technology. This technology will allow broadcasters to control the multiple copying of HD content and its retransmission over the […]
Rovi is in negotiations with Google to bring its navigation solutions and technology to the recently announced Google Smart TV platform. Rovi has confirmed it is in talks with Google. “Google have wielded their considerable influence and vision to get multiple market forces together to take connected-TV to a place that needed a collaborative approach,” […]