Telefonica’s IPTV service Movistar Imagenio continues leading the growth in the Spanish pay-TV market with an increase of 18.2 per cent in the number of its subscribers to 773,000 in the third quarter of the year. The company, with a market share of 19 per cent, captured 26,000 new clients in the third quarter, up […]
Level 3 Communications has been selected to serve as a primary content delivery network (CDN) provider for Netflix to support the company’s streaming functionality and to support storage for the entire Netflix library of content. As a result of the deal, Level 3 has accelerated plans to further invest in its CDN capacity. Level 3 […]
Accedo Broadband, provider of app stores and applications for IPTV and Connected TV, has revealed that Viasat, the leading free-TV and pay-TV operator in Scandinavia, has selected Accedo to help develop, test and launch its Viasat OnDemand application for the LG NetCast platform. Viasat OnDemand is already available for consumers to watch via the Internet […]
BT profits have beaten expectations thanks to strong growth in both broadband and its BT Vision television service. Pre-tax profits at the telecoms giant rose 13 per cent to £496 million in the three months to the end of September, compared with the same period last year. BT said its full-year earnings were likely to […]
The BBC and BT have revealed plans to bring BBC iPlayer, the public service broadcaster’s video-on-demand service, to the telco’s IPTV platform, BT Vision. BT Vision will introduce BBC iPlayer over the next five months, in a phased release starting in early December. All BT Vision customers will be able to access the service by […]
BBC’s quasi-interactive Red Button service has high reach but isn’t appreciated enough to justify its cost the BBC Trust has concluded. The Red Button cost £39.3 million (E44m) in 2009/10 and had 12 million users a week. The Trust and BBC management say it’s not yet clear how Red Button will figure in YouView’s IPTV […]
Fox has joined the other US networks and taken its shows off Google TV. However Crackle,, the online gateway to Sony Pictures Television is now available on Google TV Sony Electronics makes a GoogleTV. Crackle, Sony Pictures Entertainment’s premium video entertainment network, has built an optimised website for Google TV, its ad-supported service features original […]
The president and CEO of ActiveVideo Networks called on the media, entertainment and CE communities to agree on a single, unified platform for the delivery of Web video to the television. At a conference in San Francisco ActiveVideo’s Jeff Miller outlined how “Platform Chaos” – the fragmentation of countless video devices and technologies — must […]
Widevine has revealed Panasonic has selected it as its preferred provider of video optimisation and digital rights management (DRM) solutions. Widevine’s video optimisation will provide adaptive streaming and virtual DVD experiences, while its DRM will keep content protected on Panasonic consumer electronics such as Viera connected TVs, Blu-ray disc players and more.
The president and CEO of ActiveVideo Networks has called on the media, entertainment and CE communities to agree on a single, unified platform for the delivery of Web video to the television. At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, ActiveVideo’s Jeff Miller outlined how “Platform Chaos” – the fragmentation of countless video […]