Zappware, a provider of digital TV products for pay TV operators, today announces an Apple Watch add-on to its multiscreen Digital TV platform. The Apple Watch add-on allows end-users to use the wearable and instantly accessible Apple Watch device to receive TV-related notifications or control the TV screen. “This innovative add-on to the Zappware platform […]
John Malone, chairman of Liberty Media, has suggested that cable operator ‘TV Everywhere’ offerings are flops. “TV Everywhere is TV Nowhere,” he said at Liberty’s shareholder meeting. Malone made his comments in support of his pitch for Charter acquiring Time Warner Cable. He said further consolidation and better cooperation could help the “dysfunctional” industry deliver […]
Andy Quested, Head of HD and UHD at the BBC, has suggested that any entry by the broadcaster into providing UHD/4K content needn’t necessarily be in the form of a ‘traditional’ channel service. Speaking at the Futuresource Consulting New Content Horizons conference in London, Quested – who stressed that the Corporation didn’t have a UHD […]
According to consultancy firm PwC, it’s increasingly clear that consumers see no significant divide between digital and traditional media: what they want is more flexibility, freedom and convenience in when and how they consume their preferred content. Total worldwide entertainment and media revenues will
In just the last 3 months, Amazon has added over 600 channels, apps and games to the Amazon Fire TV platform – more than Roku and Apple TV in the same timeframe the company claims. Popular new titles include Popcornflix, Funny Or Die, Candy Crush Saga, and Fox News. In addition to these new titles, […]
Virgin Media has won the latest patent claim brought by Rovi Corporation. This is the eleventh successive ‘win’ for Virgin, out of the eleven patent disputes. All of the eleven have now been found invalid or been revoked by either the English Court or by the European Patent Office (EPO). Judgments in respect of two […]
illuminate has completed a digital restoration of the iconic TV series, The X-Files. Retransferred from the camera-original negative, the show’s entire 201 episodes have been reassembled in HD using illuminate’s proprietary iConform technology. All nine seasons of The X-Files have now been released on Netflix. iConform, illuminate’s proprietary software, was used to automatically edit together […]
Magine TV has revealed a new fully customisable service to its German users, who can create a tailored and personal TV experience by selecting the content and channels that they want to see, whilst ‘pausing’ the rest. The end result is that viewers will pay for what they actually watch, and save on what they […]
ContentWise, the personalisation, discovery and recommendations solution for digital TV content, has been selected by TrueVisions, Thailand’s leading cable satellite television operator, to power personalisation for its multiscreen offering. Working with its local partner in the region, Golden Duck Group, a premiere broadcast system integrator company located in Bangkok, Thailand, and the leading cinema system […]
Harmonic, a specialist in video delivery infrastructure, has revealde that Indonesian cable TV operator PT Link Net, a subsidiary of First Net, has deployed a comprehensive suite of Harmonic solutions to power its First Media branded pay-TV and VoD platform, as well as a new OTT multiscreen service, called First Media Go. Through a high-density, […]