VIZIO, the US LCD TV company, has confirmed the availability of its all-new connected platform – VIZIO Internet Apps Plus. VIZIO Internet Apps Plus provides consumers with an intuitive smart TV experience. The platform features advanced, full-screen app browsing and discovery, HTML 5 app support, the ability to control apps with mobile devices and an […]
Online TV network Netflix has introduced ‘Profiles’, a new feature that aims to make it easier for everyone in the household to get the most out of the service. Netflix members can now create a separate ‘profile’ for each member of their household, who will each see a uniquely personalised experience based upon their individual […]
Chip-set developer Broadcom says its deliveries of home gateway products and set-top box solutions helped deliver strong earnings overall but especially from its broadband access and video distribution products. Moreover CFO Eric Brandt revealed that the company is investing in ‘next generation’ Internet of Things and ‘wearable’ devices. Broadcom unveiled its Q2 numbers on July […]
Television New Zealand (TVNZ), New Zealand’s national television broadcaster and digital media company, has deployed linear broadcast software from SeaChange International to streamline the creation and delivery of television content schedules for its Freeview broadcast partners across the country. Specifically, the SeaChange CASIS and STAGIS solutions are enabling TVNZ to aggregate, schedule and generate Digital […]
As the company reported it had signed up 160,000 new TV subscribers to its YouView service in the three months to June 30th, quad play comms provider TalkTalk has advised its customers of a major software upgrade. Writing in the TalkTalk blog, Laurence Miall, Director of TV at TalkTalk, says the great thing about YouView […]
blinkx, the Internet Media platform, has unveiled a beta version of its new blinkx VideoAdvantage. Publishers who leverage blinkx VideoAdvantage will be enabled to power their Web and mobile properties with content from blinkx’s video catalogue, with the opportunity to share in video advertising revenue with blinkx. blinkx VideoAdvantage will provide publishers a solution to […]
TCL, one of the largest consumer electronics enterprises in China, has confirmed that the web experience on its newest Smart TV range will be built on top of the Opera Devices Software Development Kit (SDK) for Linux-based devices, and will feature Opera’s TV browser and Opera TV Store. Opera will power the viewer web experience […]
UKTV has confirmed that its new channel – Drama – is moving further up the Sky EPG thanks to a deal struck between UKTV and PBS America. Drama, which launched on July 8th and airs critically-acclaimed drama series spanning the last 40 years, currently sits at channel number 291 on the Sky EPG. From July […]
In a move designed to deliver new customer experiences and to spur innovation among smartphone and tablet app developers, satellite platform DISH has opened its third-party application programming interface (API) to developers. Trusted partners can now access many of the same second-screen APIs that DISH uses for its own DISH Explorer mobile app on its […]
Access, a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile, beyond-PC and digital TV markets, is licensing the Reference Design Kit (RDK) software stack from Comcast to enhance the development and deployment of next-generation video services that support DLNA Premium Video Guidelines and HTML5. The RDK cuts the development time in half for set-top […]