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Digital media grows 20% in 2008

According to Strategy Analytics Digital Media Strategies (DMS) research, the top 27 digital media companies in the world increased earnings by more than 20 per cent, to $74 billion in 2008 up from $61.5 billion in 2007. Among the top five digital media companies in the world, Apple's 'Other Music Related Products and Services' segment, […]

March 23, 2009

Cabelcom adds 16 new channels

The Swiss operator is immediately adding the new channels nine of which will be English-language channels from the UK. They include BBC Three, BBC Four, CBBC, Cbeebies, Five, E4, More 4, ITV 3 and ITV. German channels ZDF Infokanal and Eins Extra will also join the line-up, along with Austrian music channel gotv, Bibel TV […]

March 20, 2009

Disney content for YouTube

Disney has struck a deal with Google’s online video network YouTube to distribute short-form content from ESPN and ABC. The agreement would extend the Internet reach for ESPN’s sports highlights and ABC News updates and provide another outlet for video snippets taken from the ABC broadcast network and ABC Family cable channel shows. Disney hopes […]

March 20, 2009

Babelgum flash

Independent Web TV service Babelgum has released a new version of its mobile video application in the US, UK and Italy and simultaneously launched a redesigned website with a Flash-based player, offering, it says, one of the first fully integrated video mobile and web user experiences. Babelgum mobile has already experienced success in the UK […]

March 20, 2009

ADB joins Open IPTV Forum

Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB), supplier of technology to the global digital television industry, has been accepted as a member of the Open IPTV Forum. The Forum is an industry organisation working on "Open Standards" for end to end IPTV solutions.

March 20, 2009

DT IPTV glitches?

According to German press reports Deutsche Telekom is having chronic technical problems with its IPTV platform T-Home Entertain. News magazine Stern says internal documents show call centres and technicians are having to deal with a tidal wave of complaints. The main problem seems to be poor pictures with latency and drop outs with the disruption […]

March 11, 2009

YouTube and Universal mull music channel

Google ‘s YouTube and Universal Music are in talks to create a premium online music video service. If they reach a deal, the service could mark a significant step forward in Google’s attempt to generate revenue from YouTube, which it acquired for $1.65 billion in 2006. They are in talks to create a stand-alone site […]

March 6, 2009

Viacom open to ‘TV Everywhere’

Viacom is sympathetic to Time Warner’s “TV Everywhere” says CEO Philippe Dauman who said the company was “very open” to experimenting with models that would allow cable, satellite and telco TV subscribers to view cable content online. “We think it has to be seamless to the consumer, and we’re working [with the distributors] on the […]

March 5, 2009

ZillionTV, the hardware Hulu?

ZillionTV is hoping to do for the set-top box market what Hulu has done for the PC. The startup, backed with content and investments from ABC/Disney, Fox, NBC/Universal, Sony and Warner Bros., has announced plans to offer ISPs a set-top box that will stream content to subscriber’s TVs. Customers will have the option to rent […]

March 5, 2009

Disney looks at online subs

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 […]

March 5, 2009