The BBC has launched its new BBC iPlayer Kids app, available for free on iOS and Android phones and tablets, as well as Kindle Fire. The new child-friendly app is safe and easy to use. With over 10,000 episodes being made available this year alone, it has all of BBC Children’s content in one place, […]
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) has partnered with CSG to create a new service named ULTRA that allows consumers to buy and stream 4K movies and TV shows on Sony Android BRAVIA 4K TVs. With this new service, consumers will be able to browse, purchase, favourite, search and playback a broad catalogue of 4K video […]
After a promised 2 year price-freeze, Netflix is prepping to hike the price of streaming HD TV shows and movies in the UK. Later this month, UK customers will begin to be “ungrandfathered” from previous pricing plans, and will be charged £7.49 (€9.35) per month to stream HD videos from one account to two devices […]
The BBC has hailed the transformation of BBC3 into an online-only service as a success after a new show reached similar viewing figures to a broadcast show. The channel’s drama about the aftermath of an abduction, entitled Thirteen, has been the channel’s biggest hit on iPlayer, with 2.4 million watching since its release at the […]
Elemental Technologies, a specilaist in software-defined video solutions, has announced that Globo, a commercial broadcaster in Brazil, is using Elemental video processing as the core VoD and live processing engine for the Globo Play OTT service. “As Brazil’s leading broadcaster, video quality is critical to everything we do. For more than four years, Elemental software-based […]
Brightcove, a provider of cloud services for video, has announced Brightcove OTT Flow, a turnkey OTT solution for media companies and content owners everywhere to rapidly deploy direct-to-consumer, live and on-demand video services across platforms. Developed in partnership with Accedo, OTT Flow offers an end-to-end technology solution via a simple, cost effective commercial model. With […]
On April 3rd 107,000 fans gathered at Texas Stadium in Dallas to watch WrestleMania 32. According to Rolling Stone magazine, there were 413 minutes of total air time covering all the activities in the ring, in the stadium and backstage. In another metric, AT&T reported Wrestlemania 32 set new records of data use at the […]
Netflix gained 1.8 million accounts in the course of 2015 (+37 per cent) to 5.2 million, surpassing the 1.3 million VoD-enabled homes added by fixed-line telcos Sky (including Now TV), Virgin Media, BT and TalkTalk according to Enders’ analysis of the home entertainment market in the UK. The majority of SVoD homes overlap with pay-TV […]
Sky will stream a range of news and sport content directly through social media giant Facebook in the coming months, according to the company’s digital director Lucien Bowater. In a company blog post, Bowater said that Sky will give a “unique behind the scenes look” at a number of major sporting events and breaking news […]
Net Insight, aprovider of live, interactive and on-demand media transport, has officially launch of Sye, what it claims is the world’s only true live OTT streaming solution. Sye allows live content to be streamed with frame-accurate synchronisation across any type of screen, including linear broadcast TV, with no delay. “Sye completely revolutionises the way live […]