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EFA launches caniwatchit.com.au

Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA), Australia’s leading voice for digital rights since 1994, has launched caniwatchit.com.au, a website that provides information about the legal availability in Australia of the top ten most infringed movies worldwide. EFA has also published a submission guide for people interested in responding to the government’s Online Copyright Infringement Discussion Paper. According […]

August 18, 2014By Colin Mann

Portugal: 1m downloads for Meo Go app

Portugal Telecom has surpassed one million downloads for its Meo Go TV everywhere app. The Meo Go is available in the App Store for iPad, iPhone and iPod, from Google Play for Android tablets and smartphones and from the Windows Store for PCs, laptops and Windows phones. The app enables Portugal Telecom customers to watch […]

August 18, 2014

OTT devices take 24% of ad views

FreeWheel has released its Video Monetization Report for the second quarter 2014. Q2 has marked another quarter of strong growth and evolution in the digital television market, with video views and ad views both up over 28 per cent year-over-year. Not only did the quarter see growth across formats, categories, and platforms, FreeWheel also discovered […]

August 15, 2014

Samsung buys SmartThings smart home start-up

Samsung is buying SmartThings,  a startup backed by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin that helps connect household devices. Samsung joins Apple and Google in exploring ways to integrate connected household gadgets to begin to exploit the “Internet of Things.” The TechCrunch blog reported Samsung was set to pay more than $200 million for the two-year-old startup […]

August 15, 2014

Emmys for TiVo

TiVo has announced that the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has awarded both TiVo and subsidiary Digitalsmiths an Emmy Award for their role in shaping the next generation of home entertainment. TiVo was recognised for Television Enhancement Devices and Digitalsmiths for Personalised Recommendation Engines for Video Discovery for Multichannel Video Programming Distributors […]

August 15, 2014

Tottenham Hotspur new YouTube channel

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club has launched a new Official YouTube channel. Sunset+Vine, the UK independent TV sports production and media company, has been appointed to manage the channel and the delivery of new content. Tottenham Hotspur first team players Emmanuel Adebayor, Brad Friedel and Eric Dier all make cameo appearances in a video marking the […]

August 15, 2014By Nik Roseveare

Elemental upgrades Roberts Network

Elemental Technologies is powering OTT TV, IPTV and desktop and mobile streaming video services for Roberts Communications Network, the world’s largest provider of simulcast horse and greyhound racing video services. Roberts standardised on Elemental video processing following an intensive six-month competitive shootout in which Elemental systems demonstrated the lowest latency and highest quality encoding platform. […]

August 15, 2014

Brits still prefer to watch live TV, on their TV

Research reveals that despite the growth in TV viewing via PC, tablet and smartphones, 89 per cent of viewers still regularly use the TV to watch their content live – with 85 per cent also stating that the TV is their preferred screen. The research from global broadcast solutions provider BroadStream Solutions,

August 14, 2014

4K forecasts ‘too optimistic’

Bright forecasts for consumer use of 4K or Ultra-HD video are overly optimistic, according to a report from TDG. While 4K will ultimately reach the mainstream, it will be a niche market for at least another five years, with widespread viewing of 4K content arriving in 2019 and growing quickly beyond. Joel Espelien, author of […]

August 14, 2014

WWE Network goes global

The WWE Network is now available in over 170 countries and territories, including Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mexico, Spain and the Nordics, among others. The network is expected to go live in the UK this October, and will roll out in Italy, UAE, Germany, Japan, India, China, Thailand and Malaysia in the near […]

August 14, 2014By Nik Roseveare