Last week the BBC’s Mike Gunton (Creative Director/BBC Natural History Unit) and Andy King (its outgoing Head of Technology/Television Productions), speaking to advanced-television.com at the MIPCOM programming market, said that the BBC was now working hard to get its Ultra-HD productions out to the consumer. King said that high-profile shows, such as the upcoming Planet […]
Simplestream, a provider of video services for the media and entertainment industry, has announced the latest development of its multi-year, strategic partnership with BoxNation, resulting in the launch of its video and live content on Apple TV. BoxNation is a pay TV, SVoD and live streaming boxing channel in the UK and Ireland. The channel […]
Filip Remskar, CEO, talks about the latest trends in OTT and introduces Nuboly, Beenius’s new cloud provided complete platform that allows broadcasters to go OTT and bring VoD and multiscreen services to market quickly, economically and flexibly. [bitsontherun p7Gwfdbs-hLYU43gg]
ADB CEO Peter Balchin tells about Graphyne 2 the updated and enhanced solution that smooths the path for broadcasters transitioning to TV Everywhere provision. It features improved UI, discovery and recommendation for a much improved user experience. ADB is also leveraging its deep experience of the hospitality sector to address top class user service and develop […]
Jason Friedlander, Director of Solutions Engineering for Verizon Digital Media Services, introduces their latest major enhancement; Live Events Manager. This application means any content provider – however large or small – can provide live streaming and can monitor and manage output from a simple dashboard that shows the pre and post encoding stream and the audience view. […]
Technicolor has announced Q3 group revenues of €1.14 billion (versus €877 million a year ago). Frederic Rose, Chief Executive Officer of Technicolor, commented: “Our third quarter revenues have been solid as we continued to perform well and win major new awards across all our activities. We confirm our objectives for 2016 and remain strongly focused […]
Olympusat’s CEO, Tom Mohler, spoke on the panel Exploring Options for Incremental Linear and Digital Distribution at the Hispanic TV Summit. Mohler offered insight into the television industry transition to OTT platforms, as well as the growing Hispanic audiences preferences and demographics. The executive also delved into the current opportunities presented to content creators, networks, […]
Mondo is adding its popular digital series like Happy Tree Friends and Deep Space to LeEco, a streaming service that will be available on LeEco’s new line of televisions and mobile phones in the US. “LeEco is a fantastic way for us to continue our strategy of expanding our brand and bringing our content to animation fans across multiple platforms,” said […]
Viewers are watching more content on mobile as viewing time moves closer to parity with fixed TV viewing, Ericsson’s latest ConsumerLab research. Revealed at MIPCOM, Ericsson’s latest study said the ratio between viewing on fixed screens and mobile screens is close to 60:40 this year compared to almost 70:30 in 2010. Anders Erlandsson, senior advisor, […]
According to findings from consumer purchase data specialist InfoScout, despite TV makers’ hype over the latest technologies and features heading into the holiday shopping season, most TV buyers are not persuaded by product and brand differentiation messages during their path to purchase. For the great majority of buyers, finding a TV at the right price […]