To complement its launch of TV channels YouTube, Google has launched a significant redesign of the video site for a more TV-like feel, with customisable channels. In October, Google announced that YouTube would be expanding its original content with plans to launch some 96 new video channels over the next year from a variety of […]
Digital entertainment solutions provider Rovi and developer of products and services for broadband and broadcast operators Pace are combining respective strengths in applications and service platforms, and in hardware and middleware, jointly to develop an integrated hybrid Internet Protocol (IP) solution. The new solution, targeted to be available in the USA, Canada, and Latin America, […]
Microsoft has paid $70 million to buy VideoSurf, the online video search technology company. Founded in 2006, VideoSurf offers a back-end computer vision technology that “sees” frames inside videos to make discovering content fast, easy and accurate. Over time, Microsoft will integrate this technology across its entertainment platform to augment the Xbox 360 ecosystem and […]
Digiguide TV has launched Digiguide.tv Premium, an online customisable TV guide aimed at busy TV fans who need a TV guide that they can tailor to their tastes and sends them only information on programmes they are interested in watching. Digiguide.tv Premium offers a mix of personalised recommendations, TV-related content, reminders, extended search functionality on […]
Responding to media speculation that voice commands may replace the remote control in the living room, user experience specialist ruwido has emphasised its belief that despite the need to re-evaluate how users explore and interact with their TV services, the remote control device is here to stay. In response to recent media speculation that Apple […]
Admitting that the initial version of Google TV “wasn’t perfect”, Google has announced a software update aimed at providing a better user experience. Writing in the Google TV blog, Mario Queiroz, Vice President Product Management, and Vincent Dureau, Director of Engineering, note that with over three billion views a day, sites such as YouTube are […]
Social TV service Zeebox, developed by former BBC iPlayer developer Anthony Rose, is now live on iPad where it is the “App Of The Week.” Zeebox shows users information, apps and further downloads about shows they are watching, creates live links to the material discussed in shows and lets users follow show-based social network chat […]
A new report on UK cable operator Virgin Media’s prospects (from investment bankers Morgan Stanley) says that TiVo’s functionality will make life very hard for YouView or BSkyB. Virgin’s senior staffers say that their TiVo box, now rolling out to its customer base, will beat to the punch the UK’s digital terrestrial service YouView and […]
Home input device and interaction mechanism specialist ruwido has launched its ‘companion box’, a solution that connects smartphones to the television in the living room to individualise content offerings and personalise the viewing experience. The companion box consists of both hardware and software solutions. The hardware component is able to send Infra-Red (IR) commands and […]
TV Genius, part of Red Bee Media, has formed a partnership with GfK Media, a market research agency, to further enhance the relevance of its Content Discovery Platform. The partnership combines TV Genius’ search and recommendation solution for TV content with GfK Media’s audience research expertise to provide operators and content owners from around the […]