Italian mobile telephony operator 3 Italia has introduced All-In Movie & TV, a new streaming service that provides access to movies and TV channels, both free and for a subscription. The free application is available for Windows Phone and Android devices. Significantly, all data traffic used for watching content in streaming is completely free of […]
Al Jazeera-owned channel beIN Sports is launching on OTT in Spain following an agreement with TotalChannel, the Spanish online TV platform purchased by Mediapro last year. The UEFA Champions League and Europe League, together with the Premier League, Serie A and Copa Libertadores will be available through computers and connected devices, via totalchannel.com and the […]
Singapore pay-TV operator StarHub has launched a new online streaming service – StarHub Go – which it says extends pay-TV reach with added flexibility. The service offers a selection of the most popular StarHub TV content delivered on demand, over-the-top, and on any device, enabling customers to access their favourite programmes at their convenience. Customers […]
Moves by Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel to combat the threat of rival OTT service Netflix by cutting its prices to pre-empt its launch in March 2015 have boosted sales and subscriber numbers, but also dented its profits and average revenues per user. Foxtel reported a record 2.8 million subscribers in the year ended June, but […]
Traditional TV providers continue to lose subscribers, with the top 10 shedding over 400,000 subscribers this past quarter alone. While cord-cutting has been acknowledged for some time now, these are worst-ever numbers for the pay-TV providers. According to analysts Craig Moffett and Michael Nathanson: “A year ago, the pay-TV sector was shrinking at an annual […]
Findings from consumer market research specialist Horowitz Research’s Multiplatform Content & Services report show that OTT SVoD services remain a complement to, not a replacement for, traditional pay TV: 40 per cent of Internet users have multichannel and an OTT SVoD service, 42 per cent have
The number of TV sets connected to the Internet will reach 876 million by 2020, up from 105 million at end-2010 and the 415 million expected at end-2015, according to a new report from Digital TV Research. Covering 51 countries, the Connected TV Forecasts report states
With emerging virtual reality games, smartwatches, smart TVs and other consumer electronics and IT applications entering the market, shipments of gesture sensing control user interfaces are poised to grow 10 per cent year over year, to reach 1.8 billion units in 2015. While touch-screen technology works well in smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices with […]
Haier America and Roku have announced the launch of new Haier Roku TV models for US consumers. Haier Roku TV models combine Haier’s sleek TV design picture with the Roku operating system to provide consumers a user friendly smart TV experience with access to more than 2,000 streaming channels. “Haier is focused on delivering immersive […]
Paywizard, the specialist in subscriber management for pay-TV, today announces that it has been selected by NetRange, to power subscriber management for its pay-TV and TVoD customers. Using its Agile platform, Paywizard will enable NetRange to increase subscriber acquisition, retention, up-sell and cross-sell. Paywizard will also grow NetRange’s TV business with a number of tailored […]