Multi-platform live streaming and catch-up TV service provider Simplestream has been chosen by Sky Bet to support the streaming of all of the Sky Bet Championship, League 1 and League 2 Play-Off matches for Sky Bet customers to access as the English 2013/14 football season draws to a close. Kicking off on Thursday 8th May […]
FilmOn.com, provider of free Internet television, has signed a deal to distribute multiple channels from news broadcaster Euronews. The agreement will see six Euronews channels made available in multiple languages across the FilmOn.com platform via desktop, tablet and mobile. FilmOn.com’s founder and CEO Alki David commented: “We are extremely proud to welcome euronews to the […]
ABOX42, a provider of IPTV & OTT Smart STBs and services, is supplying its advanced STB platform for the new Dutch IPTV service Sparql. Sparql is a service of Dutch company Cambrium, which is also known for its ISP Tweak. Sparql subscribers will be equipped exclusively with the ABOX42 M12 smart STB which gives them […]
According to the latest NPD Group TV Everywhere Report, more than one-in-five (21 per cent) pay-TV subscribers use the TV Everywhere services provided by their pay-TV operator at least once per month. Although the pay-TV industry has increasing concerns that OTT subscription video-on-demand services (SVoD) will lead to
On-demand views of US drama series 24 have increased by 37 per cent on Amazon Prime Instant Video in the past month ahead of the show returning on Sky this week with 24: Live Another Day. The research, carried out by Prime Instant Video – the UK’s largest movie and TV streaming service – to […]
Netflix is now streaming content in 4K with the second season of its original drama House of Cards. In a blog post, Netflix said that although its catalogue of Ultra-HD content is currently small, it expects to add more 4K content and increase the number of devices it can be accessed on later this year. […]
People who illegally download billions of pounds worth of movies also love going to the cinema and don’t mind paying to watch movies, according to recent academic research published in the Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Economics. In the first study to examine the differences between movie and music pirates, the key finding was those […]
Parks Associates research shows Amazon has made significant gains in the OTT video market as nearly 20 per cent of all US broadband households now have an Amazon Prime Instant Video subscription. The Q1 2014 survey of 10,000
In a move set to complete its transition from a largely VoD-focused company to one that has an equal emphasis on live/linear programming and an authenticated Pay OTT TV experience, open source video platform Kaltura has acquired Tvinci, the provider of Pay OTT TV services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Kaltura says the […]
Barry Diller, the main backer of Internet TV streaming service Aereo, has described the tactics of the US broadcasters in the US Supreme Court copyright case as “obnoxious” and warned that stopping the service was stopping technology. “Aereo has been criticised as a gimmick, as a way of avoiding copyright rules. In fact, it was […]