Having gained the upper hand in court battles with US network broadcasters who claim copyright infringement, Internet TV streaming service Aereo has named four new cities to its nationwide expansion: Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio, Indianapolis, Indiana and San Antonio, Texas. These four metropolitan areas represent a total population of nearly eight million people. Columbus, Cincinnati, […]
Buoyed by raising $60 million in new funding from Hearst Corporation, News Corp and Sky as well as institutional investor Fidelity in May 2013, streaming platform Roku has unveiled an all-new family of streaming players. Designed to provide a better TV experience for every streaming fan, the new Roku LT, Roku 1 and Roku 2 […]
In addition to launching a new family of players, streaming software platform Roku is partnering with pay-as-you-go digital entertainment service M-GO to bring instant access to the entertainment that customers care most about. Located on the Roku home screen menu, new ‘movies’ and ‘TV shows’ shortcuts lead directly into the integrated M-GO service and deliver […]
Despite Court Orders restraining FilmOn.com from offering the Big Four Networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX) in 70 per cent of the country for free to the public, billionaire founder Alki David has opened another antenna array farm in Tampa, Florida ,bringing up the total number of major cities in the US which FilmOn offers local […]
Sky has added E4 and Film4 live channels to its Sky Go service. The stations follow Channel 4 and More4 onto the online TV platform and take its number of live channels available to 49. The satellite broadcaster is currently running a promotion that enables Sky Go subscribers to upgrade to Sky Go Extra, which […]
BSkyB is investing in a highly sophisticated Network Convergence System (NCS) from Cisco. While it will take 18 months or so to fully install, the intention is to be ready for a slew of ‘next generation’ services that could include ‘machine to machine’ and Internet of Everything applications. Cisco says its NCS is the industry’s […]
Netflix chief Reed Hastings has again promised a 4K download service, but admits that consumers with less than 15Mb/s service might struggle to stream material. “It’s not too bad,” he told a Danish journalist at the recent Copenhagen Future of TV Conference. “If you’ve got a 50-megabit connection you’ll be fine.” Hastings did not specify a […]
A week after its success in garnering two Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for its series House of Cards, online entertainment service Netflix has marked another first for non-linear programming, with the political thriller being awarded the Best Director of a Drama Series Emmy after David Fincher won the award, edging out directors from Boardwalk […]
Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel, which launched its Foxtel Play OTT service to connected device mid-summer, is further strengthening its armoury against existing and potential subscription TV sector players by revealing details of a video-on-demand platform offering extensive movie content over the Internet. The new – dubbed ‘Presto’ – is a pre-emptive strike against mooted similar […]
OTT does not offer a realistic alternative to established pay TV offerings and is unlikely to do so for some time, according to Brian Sullivan, CEO of Sky Deutschland. Speaking on the CEO panel at the CTAM Europe EuroSummit in Barcelona, Sullivan said that Sky had embraced OTT as a distribution mechanism, which had attracted […]