From Colin Mann in London A senior executive at ITV has suggested that 20 per cent of viewing of its channels will be via 'catch-up' services in 2013, up from four per cent currently. Carolyn Fairbairn, Director of Group Development and Strategy at the broadcaster told delegates at the Digital TV Summit that this would […]
To coincide with its third birthday, Bluewin TV, the Swiss IPTV service, is rebranding as Swisscom TV. The product name change is part of the strengthening of the Swisscom umbrella brand which took place in 2008. Three years after its launch it has acquired over 200,000 customers.
mirada the audiovisual interaction specialist, has teamed up with SmarDTV, a manufacturer of pay-TV technologies, to port Nagravision's Nagra Media Guide, onto a SmarDTV CI Plus module. The Nagra Media Guide is a fully integrated turnkey solution, which delivers an HD user experience enhanced with innovative features based on personalisation and recommendation. The partnership demonstrates […]
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) has released three newly-created IPTV standards. ATIS' IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF) – a global player in IPTV standards development – recently completed this work. These deliverables standardise multiple areas of the IPTV ecosystem. The three released standards consider: a test plan for validating objective quality models in the […]
YouTube Direct is a new market place service whereby TV and online news editors can obtain video from so-called “citizen journalists”. News outlets seeking footage can announce it in a variety of ways, including via call-out videos. “News organisations always want to verify the content they use,” said Steve Grove, head of news and politics […]
Telstra will begin a live trial of its new digital set-top “T-box” this week, ahead of its release in Australia. Several hundred customers will begin using the device in a trial that will enable them to start watching movies downloaded from the Internet on their TV sets. The T-box will make it possible for Telstra […]
OpenTV has revealed that Foxtel, the leading subscription television operator in Australia and longtime OpenTV customer, has launched its next generation platform in collaboration with OpenTV. Powered by OpenTV middleware and using OpenTV's latest interactive TV technology, the operator's new platform features an array of new channels and innovative applications that were developed by Foxtel […]
Digital TV company Kudelski has purchased approximately 60 per cent of the shares in OpenTV Corp it had not already owned for $1.55 a share, taking its voting rights to 91 per cent. In February, Kudelski had proposed buying the remainder of OpenTV’s shares for $1.35 per share, but withdrew that bid in June after […]
BSkyB and Virgin Media had a rare show of unity when they agreed that the Project Canvas open IPTV platform should not be cleared by the BBC Trust because it isn't providing anything the market isn't already. Griff Parry, director of on demand for Sky, told the C21Media's FutureMedia conference "there's no evidence of market […]
BT Vision added just 18,000 subs in the three months to September 30, a fall of almost 50 percent on the previous quarter. And after a "data cleanse" of its customer base during Q2, the service has 436,000 users—only 3,000 more than in Q1. Unsurprisingly BT re-emphasised it has now abandoned its original target of […]