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Fitness on Fetch

IP Vision has revealed that leading health and fitness channel Fitness TV is the latest addition to its FetchTV platform, the UK’s first commercial hybrid OTT/IPTV service for consumers. Fitness TV is available immediately to FetchTV viewers for just £1.99 per month as well as via pay-per-view on demand. Fitness TV is the UK’s first […]

January 21, 2011

RerunCentral.com streaming library

RerunCentral.com has launched to provide consumers an easy route to discovering TV shows to watch online. The site presents pre-screened links to TV shows watchable at popular Internet destinations such as Hulu, Crackle, and TVLand. Users then click to the exact location of legal studio-produced online videos which can be instantly streamed and are often […]

January 21, 2011

BBC: No to ‘two-speed’ Internet

The BBC director general Mark Thompson, has signalled the Corporation will rigorously defend ‘its responsibility’ to distribute programmes freely to license payers by weighing into the Net Neutrality debate and coming out against paid tiers for delivery speed or quality. Thompson said that the continued success of online TV services such as the BBC’s iPlayer […]

January 20, 2011

UK is “plain wrong” to seek online curbs

On January 19th, the UK government’s Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, told the Oxford Media Convention that he would be formulating new regulations covering online programming. “I do want to look at what can be done to strengthen child protection on the internet and whether the structures we have in place are the best way to […]

January 20, 2011

Online TV: Users aging, Social networking not important

SideReel, the independent online TV destination, has released results from an online video survey of 1800+ users. Conducted in December 2010, the survey identifies usage patterns in the areas of social media, Web TV, and the use of connected devices. “People are mixing new technologies with familiar ones to get a personalised TV experience that […]

January 20, 2011

Vision IPTV calls on Hunt to drive local TV online

Vision IPTV has called on Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt to back broadcast quality Internet-only distribution and playout for the new national TV channel. Vision IPTV CEO, John Mills, said, “The costs of Internet broadcast are a tiny fraction of digital terrestrial TV and the barriers for local broadcasters therefore much lower. It makes sense to […]

January 20, 2011

Trilithic introduces the new EASyCAP Software and EASyCAPIntegrated Server solution for supporting IPAWS-CAP on EASyPLUS, EASyCASTand EASyIPTV systems

Trilithic, the experts in digital Emergency Alert Systems, introduces the new EASyCAP Software and EASyCAP Integrated Server solution for supporting IPAWS-CAP on EASyPLUS, EASyCAST and EASyIPTV systems. FEMA announced the adoption of the new CAPv1.2 standard and the IPAWS v1.0 Profile. All EAS participants, including cable TV systems, broadcasters, and IPTV video providers must support […]

January 20, 2011

BBC’s Huggers quits for Intel

The BBC’s Director of Future Media & Technology, Erik Huggers, is to leave the corporation at the end of February to become Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Digital Home Group, based at its Silicon Valley headquarters in California. He replaces interim General Manager Brad Daniels. BBC Director General Mark Thompson said that […]

January 19, 2011by Colin Mann

TiVo on iPad

Tivo, the DVR pioneer, has launched its official iPad app, which acts as a remote control for the TiVo Premiere and Premiere XL devices. The app includes a full-screen 14-day programme guide, and the ability to browse recorded shows and launch them from the iPad. TiVo customers can now use their Apple device to look […]

January 19, 2011

MRG: Managed IPTV market steady growth

Based on information from 875 IPTV Operators, where the total number of IPTV Operators have increased by 22 since Q2/2010, the rate of growth of global IPTV Operators continues at a rate of over 10 new Operators per quarter, with 50 per cent of those in North America reports MRG. With the unprecedented number of […]

January 19, 2011