As Netflix ramps up its global roll-out, adding 130 countries in January, the company says it wanted its service to work well everywhere in the world, and that meant solving many complex technical problems with a global approach. In a company Blog, Research Engineers at the Internet entertainment streaming firm note that the personalised recommendations […]
According to consultancy service The Diffusion Group, US multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) will rapidly move to make recommendation-based programme guides the centrepiece of their updated TV interfaces. Within the next decade, the use of these recommendation-driven guides will flourish, ultimately driving 75 per cent of all TV viewing, according to TDG’s report, Recommendation Revolution […]
Without making specific allegations, the Future of TV Coalition – a diverse group of US programmers, content creators, civic groups and television providers formed to celebrate and promote the thriving innovation that is revolutionising the video viewing experience – has intimated that Google may well have had advanced warning of the FCC’s plans to introduce […]
Michael Powell, President and CEO of US trade body the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) and a former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission himself, has hit out at plans by current incumbent Tom Wheeler to introduce regulation that he says would pave the way for software, devices and other innovative solutions to compete […]
Rovi and Intellectual Ventures (IV) are collaborating to bring together their media and entertainment patent portfolios under a unified, comprehensive licensing programme to focus on OTT offerings. Under the new agreement, Rovi will serve as the exclusive partner for IV, licensing the companies’ combined patent portfolio exclusively to OTT customers. This alliance builds a combined […]
Sky’s OTT TV streaming service NOW TV is to launch what it says is its most advanced TV box later this year. The brand new NOW TV Smart Box will bring together NOW TV’s wide range of pay TV content and over 60 live free-to-air channels. The addition of digital terrestrial television services pitches the […]
As well as confirming its role in developing what Sky’s OTT streaming service NOW TV is describing as its ‘most advanced’ box yet, streaming platform specialist Roku has revealed that it is developing a hybrid set-top box that will be available for production by Roku Powered partners later this year. The new Roku Powered hybrid […]
Ericsson has launched powerful business intelligence toolkit for TV and media players which it says enables media industry to aggregate, analyse and act upon large amounts of data. The toolkit – Integrated Video Insights – builds on Ericsson’s TV and media, big data and analytics, and consulting and systems integration portfolios and increases the company’s ability […]
Sky has revealed the biggest ever redesign of Sky Go in Europe. From this week in the UK and Ireland, Sky will start rolling out the new design, beginning with a new home page for the mobile app and web service. Later in the year, Sky says the streaming service will “introduce new features to […]
Broadcast specialist Vision247 has introduced a granular genre menu to VisionTV to streamline search functionality. The addition is available via its portal on Freeview channel 244 on TV, desktop, EETV and via the VisionTV UK app. VisionTV consists of more than 20 free-to-air channels, allowing viewers to watch a wide variety of both UK and […]