Apple is working on a new set-top box besides its existing Apple TV, according to filing documents. A regulatory filing made by Comcast and Time Warner Cable to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) pitching their planned merger specifically mentions that Apple is exploring the “development of an Apple set-top box”. Apple has long been […]
Just a little over a year after Aereo’s last victory in federal appeals court, on April 22nd the Supreme Court will settle the question of Aereo’s legality once and for all. Broadcast networks in the US want Aereo to pay retransmission fees while Aereo says retrans fees do not apply because user-operated individual antennas are […]
Parks Associates has published consumer research showing more Roku owners than Apple TV owners use an OTT service. The firm’s Streaming CE and Content Purchasing Habits finds 86 per cent of Roku owners compared to 77 per cent of Apple TV owners use a subscription OTT service of any kind. Seventy-five per cent of Roku […]
Overall video entertainment spend in the UK is expected to reach £10 billion by 2018, averaging 2 per cent annual growth between 2014 and 2018. Pay-TV and subscription VoD services will be the key drivers, with transactional digital video showing moderate growth. Box office remains steady though packaged video is set to lose £1 billion […]
Amazon Instant Video has revealed that video streams on Prime Instant Video nearly tripled year over year. According to a report from Qwilt, which tracks growth in online video usage, Amazon has now passed both Apple and Hulu in streaming video usage. “We’ve invested hundreds of millions of dollars in great TV shows and movies […]
Broadpeak, a provider of content delivery network (CDN) technologies and live and VoD servers for cable, IPTV, OTT, and hybrid TV operators worldwide, today announced that Telecable, one of the major cable and media network companies in Mexico, has selected Broadpeak solutions to power its new OTT multiscreen service. Utilizing Broadpeak’s CDN manager, streaming server, and […]
The number of homes worldwide paying to watch television continues to rise, despite a popular view that people are turning to online alternatives, according to the latest quarterly Multiscreen Index published by consultancy firm informitv. The report shows an overall
Channel 4 and Microsoft’s Xbox are partnering to remake Swedish sci-fi drama Real Humans, marking the first time games a console maker has partnered with a UK broadcaster to co-fund a major series. The deal will see Channel 4 air the drama exclusively in the UK in 2015 at the same time as Microsoft makes […]
The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) based in the City of London Police has called upon advertisers and brand holders to continue to support its work to tackle Intellectual Property crime following the launch of its Infringing Website List (IWL). The IWL, the first of its kind to be developed, sets out to disrupt […]
OTT platform and multiscreen solution provider, Visual Unity Global has announced a strategic partnership with XroadMedia, a provider of content discovery, recommendation and targeting services. In this partnership XroadMedia will be delivering its advanced personalisation services to power vuDiscovery, the new content discovery service of Visual Unity’s award winning vuMedia platform. vuDiscoveryTM will be powered […]