blinkx, the video search engine, has launched blinkx Beat for Google TV. blinkx Beat is a playlist of the latest and most popular online videos – available in full-screen, with single button control. Users can replay videos that they like and share them with friends. “blinkx Beat was designed and built to be watched like […]
US movie rental vending machine company Redbox has confirmed that it will offer streaming movies over the Internet in 2011. CEO of parent company Coinstar, Paul Davis revealed a strategic plan to offer online video services, while still focusing on Redbox’s primary revenue driver, kiosk movie rentals.
Portugal Telecom and Huawei have jointly completed the first 10G-GPON trial in Europe by demonstrating IPTV Meo service and 3DTV using the new 10G-PON system (MA 5600T platform) provided by Huawei. The standardised 10G-PON system can achieve 10Gb/s downstream bandwidth and 2.5Gb/s upstream bandwidth for future high bandwidth demanding video services, such as 3DTV. The […]
Showtime Networks has launched Showtime Anytime, a broadband video-streaming service that will be free to Showtime subscribers through the network’s cable, satellite and telco affiliates in the US. Showtime Anytime gives subscribers the flexibility to watch more than 400 hours of the network’s programming, hit movies and sports offerings online, whenever and wherever they’d like […]
Internet technologies have been a catalyst to turn TV into a mash-up of many kinds of content and then bring it to any screen, while TV viewing has become more fragmented according to a report from Pyramid Research. “While content owners can bypass pay-TV operators by going direct to consumers over the Internet, the operators’ […]
Racing UK TV will be available via IPTV from next week following a deal between the leading horseracing channel and internet broadcast company Vision IPTV . Race fans can now receive the channel by purchasing a Freeview and Internet SmartBox from FetchTV through a heavily-discounted one-off payment. As a special joining offer, any residential customer […]
YouView is “not anti-competitive, it creates competition” according to Kip Meek, Chairman of the venture, who argued that it created content at three levels: device, content and platform. Meek suggested that as YouView was an early stage project, it would have been difficult for Ofcom or any competition authority to have deemed it anti-competitive at […]
Hoping to make Google’s TV less intimidating, Best Buy is offering free installation and set-up in the run up to Christmas to customers who purchase a Sony Internet TV or a Blu-ray player powered by Google TV. The electronics retailer’s Geek Squad Agents will deliver, install and connect the new gear, and also provide tips […]
BinWeevils, the immersive 3D online entertainment platform for children, has launched an integrated “social video-on-demand” service which will allow children to watch major TV hits from Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon. Available immediately, members of BinWeevils’ ‘Bin Tycoon’ subscription service will be able to pick from over 200 hours of on-demand TV content and communicate and […]
TeliaSonera has reported its IPTV subscriber base grew in a number of markets during the first nine months of 2010. In Sweden the company saw its IPTV customer base increase by 13,000 to reach 431,000, while VOD rentals surpassed 1.5 million in the period, compared with 1.2 million for the full year of 2009. In […]