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 […]
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. […]