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 […]
Tele2 has launched IPTV services over its VDSL network. The service offers time-shifting, catch-up TV, live and on-demand TV, and is included as part of a triple-play package with broadband and telephony, costing €34.95 a month for the first year and €39.95 a month thereafter. Around 1 million Dutch homes are currently within the company’s […]
Jeremy Allaire, chief executive of Brightcove, has denied rumours of an initial public offering. Speculation about the future of the highly-valued online video company rocketed earlier this month when Allaire hired Chris Menard as chief financial officer, an executive with experience in public companies and of acquisitions. “We don’t need capital right now, we’re very […]
Sky Anytime+, Sky’s new Internet delivered VOD service, is to begin rolls-out to Sky+HD homes this week with STBs connecting to the Sky Broadband network to access a comprehensive on-demand service. Once connected, customers will have access to an updating library of content which they can ‘pull’ to their TVs to watch whenever they like. […]
Entone, provider of Connected Home solutions, has unveiled the Janus Media Hub, a multi-stream hardware platform that delivers Hybrid TV services over IP and traditional broadcast networks. By deploying Janus, service operators can offer consumers the best of live HDTV and web media services from a single device. Janus Media Hub enables live HDTV reception […]
SFR has launched an on-demand gaming service for subscribers to its IPTV service ‘Neufbox TV’. The French telco’s service will initially offer 30 games with players using the remote control or a USB joystick offered by SFR to control the on-screen action. Subscribers also have the option to try out games for free before purchasing. […]
Google is trying to persuade three US television networks that have blocked access to their websites from Google TV to change their minds. ABC, NBC and CBS have blocked their online shows from the new Google TV service. Fox is said to be considering joining them in throwing the off switch. The Google service has […]
Search giant Google would be free to create a Google search engine app on YouView, according to the open IPTV platform’s Chief Technology Officer, Anthony Rose. He told delegates at the Screen Digest Future of Digital Media Distribution Conference that he was not convinced that the recently-announced Google TV keyboard produced by Logitech was an […]
The Spanish competition watchdog (CNC) has approved the merger between the commercial TV channels Tele 5, controlled by Mediaset and Prisa-owned Cuatro, but has blocked the entry of Tele5 and Telefonica into the Prisa-controlled pay DTH platform Digital Plus. The decision to limit the TV deal is on the grounds that Digital Plus, with Tele […]