For the first time, the NOW TV Box is available to purchase in Argos and Currys PC World stores across the UK. The box comes bundled with content passes, with customers able to choose from either a Sky Sports Day Pass or 3 months Sky Movies Pass.. A NOW TV Box plus Sky Sports Day […]
For the next half decade, connected television is primarily a complementary, incremental, platform for existing broadcasting and content owners, according to the findings of a recent report – Connected Television in the UK and Ireland – from consultancy firm Deadline Media TV. The report’s author,
The latest Australian Multi-Screen Report, covering the second quarter of calendar 2013, shows Australians are progressively adopting new screen technologies, creating new options to view broadcast television and other video. Australians continue to spend the vast majority of their screen time with the in-home TV set. People watch an average 96 hours and 37 minutes […]
Netflix is said to be in talks with several US cable operators including Comcast and Suddenlink to make its online video service available as an app on their set-top boxes. A deal would mark the online video service’s first such tie-up with a US cable provider and would come after a similar agreement it recently […]
Thirty-four per cent of millennials surveyed watch mostly online video or no broadcast television at all, according to research from The New York Times. The term “Millennials” generally refers to the last generation born before the end of the twentieth century in the years covering around 1980 to 2000. The survey of more than 4,000 […]
Internet TV streaming service FilmOn founder Alki David has congratulated rival service Aereo and its founder Barry Diller on its Boston court victory against a motion by the broadcast networks to injunction Aereo in the 1st Circuit. The motion was denied. “Naturally this now allows FilmOn to fire up our Local Service again in Massachusetts […]
Dreamworks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg has revealed that he offered the creators of Breaking Bad $75 million (€55.5m) for three extra episodes of the cult drama to run after the end of the last series. The intention was to air these online in 30 daily, six-minute bites. Delivering a MIPCOM Personality of the Year keynote […]
ESPN Player, the live and on-demand sports streaming service, is now available on Samsung Smart TVs across the UK and Europe, and will launch on LG Smart TV’s in the near future. Sports fans with Samsung Smart TVs are now able to download the free ESPN Player App directly onto their TV’s from Samsung Apps. […]
Marvel Anime has announced the premiere of four new series in the UK on Amazon’s LOVEFiLM streaming service. The deal with Sony Pictures Television means that subscription on-demand service LOVEFiLM will host series featuring popular comic book heroes including vampire hunter “Blade”, Tony Stark’s alter ego “Iron Man”, the fearsome “Wolverine” and mutant superheroes “X-Men”. […]
Amazon’s LOVEFiLM has announced the arrival of its new and improved LOVEFiLM Instant streaming application on LG Smart TVs in the UK and Germany. The enriched app allows LG Smart TV owners to find content easier than ever before with an improved search function and recommendation engine, navigate more efficiently with an optimised user interface, […]