Walt Disney Co was considering moves like creating a subscription-based online video club to capture online consumers as well as revenue that is being lost to piracy, Chief Executive Robert Iger said. Iger told analysts at the Deutsche Bank conference “We’ve also seen a pretty dramatic shift in how people consume entertainment with computers and […]
French telco Alice has expanded its AliceBox offering to include 70 new channels for the IPTV service ‘Alice TV’. The new channels include a greater number of news, local and foreign channels, and brings the total number of channels available on the service up to 140. Alice has also started offering 32 channels in MPEG-4 […]
The market for IPTV services in Germany will grow more strongly over the next five years than previously predicted, according to a study by consulting company Detecon International, which adds that Germany can expect to cross the 5 million user threshold as early as 2013. The prediction is based on current analyses of subscriber figures […]
Experts predict a weak economic atmosphere through 2010. With this in mind, Frost & Sullivan revised the previous year’s growth forecast of a 3-year CAGR 29 per cent downwards to less than 15 per cent. “A disappointing IPTV performance is not the end of the road for Telecom incumbents but it has spurred new service […]
Time Warner is developing an initiative dubbed TV Everywhere that will allow viewers to watch networks such as CNN, Cartoon Network and TNT online – as long as they can prove they subscribe to cable, satellite or a telecom TV service. “If you want to watch your favourite TV network or shows through broadband on […]
Reuters is preparing to launch a multi-million-dollar online video platform, in an attempt to differentiate its multimedia offering to professional traders and investors by integrating it with the group's existing editorial output and financial data. The service will both showcase an expanded video offering from Reuters News and provide a platform for partners such as […]
The BBC's plans to create a "next-generation Freeview" – along with ITV and BT – the so-called Project Canvas – will face regulators' scrutiny as they will seek to establish it isn't the recently banned Project Kangaroo by another name. As well as high-definition Freeview broadcasts, Canvas will bring on-demand viewing to the television, via […]
This week, FilmOn.com, a leading video-on-demand provider Launches www.filmon.tv, a new online video portal. FilmOn.tv. Television channels from across the world will be available live with just a basic Internet broadband connection (1 Megabyte per second) using simple players such as Windows Media Player. Content currently available through the site includes Sky News, the BBC […]
OpenTV has announced financial results for its fourth quarter and full year ended December 31st, 2008. OpenTV moved from a $5.2 million net loss in 2007 to a $9.6 million profit in 2008 on revenues of $116.5m against $110m in 2007. "2008 marked the first profitable year in OpenTV's history. We exceeded both our revenue […]
Almost half of web users have used illegal file sharing sites, with Limewire (34 per cent) and BitTorrent (25 per cent) the most popular, according to research from Tiscali. In a survey of over 1,000 consumers, 46 per cent have used a peer-to-peer site (P2P), but 53 per cent have never knowingly downloaded music illegally, […]