The BBC has launched its new BBC iPlayer Kids app, available for free on iOS and Android phones and tablets, as well as Kindle Fire. The new child-friendly app is safe and easy to use. With over 10,000 episodes being made available this year alone, it has all of BBC Children’s content in one place, […]
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) has partnered with CSG to create a new service named ULTRA that allows consumers to buy and stream 4K movies and TV shows on Sony Android BRAVIA 4K TVs. With this new service, consumers will be able to browse, purchase, favourite, search and playback a broad catalogue of 4K video […]
Sylvain Thevenot, tells us about Netgem’s first visit to Mobile World Congress to demonstrate its mobile TV solution. For twenty years Netgem has stayed at the forefront of TV developments and now offers a complete converged services platform for telcos, ISPs and mobile operators. [bitsontherun mV6rrEYy-ni7dlelE]
After a promised 2 year price-freeze, Netflix is prepping to hike the price of streaming HD TV shows and movies in the UK. Later this month, UK customers will begin to be “ungrandfathered” from previous pricing plans, and will be charged £7.49 (€9.35) per month to stream HD videos from one account to two devices […]
The BBC has hailed the transformation of BBC3 into an online-only service as a success after a new show reached similar viewing figures to a broadcast show. The channel’s drama about the aftermath of an abduction, entitled Thirteen, has been the channel’s biggest hit on iPlayer, with 2.4 million watching since its release at the […]
Elemental Technologies, a specilaist in software-defined video solutions, has announced that Globo, a commercial broadcaster in Brazil, is using Elemental video processing as the core VoD and live processing engine for the Globo Play OTT service. “As Brazil’s leading broadcaster, video quality is critical to everything we do. For more than four years, Elemental software-based […]
Brightcove, a provider of cloud services for video, has announced Brightcove OTT Flow, a turnkey OTT solution for media companies and content owners everywhere to rapidly deploy direct-to-consumer, live and on-demand video services across platforms. Developed in partnership with Accedo, OTT Flow offers an end-to-end technology solution via a simple, cost effective commercial model. With […]
Customers of US pay-TV operator DISH can now stream the Netflix catalogue of Ultra HD TV shows and movies from a Hopper 3 DVR. These Netflix titles join DISH’s inventory of Ultra HD content that includes a slate of 4K programming from Sony, The Orchard and Mance Media. me/20160408005494/en/ The Hopper 3 delivers native 4K […]
On April 3rd 107,000 fans gathered at Texas Stadium in Dallas to watch WrestleMania 32. According to Rolling Stone magazine, there were 413 minutes of total air time covering all the activities in the ring, in the stadium and backstage. In another metric, AT&T reported Wrestlemania 32 set new records of data use at the […]
Cablevision Systems has announced the integration of Hulu into the Optimum TV experience, enabling customers to access the online streaming TV service directly from the Optimum TV interactive programme guide on all current-generation set top boxes. With this launch, Optimum is the first cable provider in the US to activate a channel dedicated to Hulu’s […]