Amazon and CBS Studios have annoucned that sci-fi drama Extant, produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television, will premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Instant Video in the UK. The first episode of Extant premieres on Prime Instant Video on July 10th, the day after the US premiere on CBS. New episodes will be available to stream […]
FreeWheel and Adap.tv have announced plans for the integration of Adap.tv’s programmatic reserved technology into FreeWheel’s FourFronts marketplace, enabling advertisers to purchase premium digital television from publishers using proprietary data, while enhancing the value of premium inventory and maintaining the integrity of TV ad compliance. The planned integration will enable Adap.tv and FreeWheel clients to […]
Google has launched Chromecast – its HDMI dongle – in Australia, Belgium, Japan, Korea, Portugal and Switzerland. The device first launched in the US last July costing $35, and is now available in 18 countries including the UK, Germany and France. Google opened up the SDK for Chromecast in February 2014, meaning that third-party developers can […]
Wireless technology innovator CSR has revelaed that its Bluetooth Smart remote platform has been integrated into Philips’ uWand reference design, a complete firmware and hardware solution for developing pointing and gesture based remote controls. The CSR Smart Remote platform is an end-to-end solution with CSR1010, part of the CSR µEnergy range, and the CSR8510 to […]
Octoshape, a specialist in cloud-based streaming technologies, and Mobibase, a provider of thematic linear channels and on-demand video content, have announced a multi-faceted partnership for content distribution. The engagement is designed to provide mobile publishers, IPTV providers and OTT broadcasters with a consumer-focused, high quality content distribution service delivered to connected devices around the world. […]
OTT streaming TV platform 1 Mainstream has announced it was named a Cool Vendor in Gartner’s ‘Cool Vendors in Media, 2014,’ authored by Allen Weiner, Mike McGuire and Andrew Frank. According to Gartner, regarding the companies they have selected this year, “all deal with issues of disruption in the areas of creation, distribution and monetisation. […]
Global pay-TV revenues [subscription fees and on-demand movies and TV episodes] will climb to $209 billion in 2020, up from $193 billion in 2013, according to a new report from Digital TV Research. The Digital TV World Revenue Forecasts report states that
Following announcements that it was launching its Wuaki.tv entertainment streaming service on wireless video streaming device Google Chromecast to Spain, the Rakuten-owned operator has confirmed that UK Chromecast users will have access to its catalogue of movies and TV series directly through their device. To celebrate the launch, Wuaki.tv is offering every customer who purchases […]
UK subscription- free digital TV service Freesat is launching the Curzon Home Cinema video On Demand service on Freetime, its connected TV service. Curzon Home Cinema is Freesat’s first film On Demand and pay-per-view player. The new player, created by Curzon Home Cinema, gives Freetime viewers the opportunity to watch the latest cinema releases on demand […]
The BBC has rolled out major updates for its iOS and Android BBC iPlayer apps for mobiles and tablets. The iPlayer app, available from the Apple App Store and Google Play, and as an update to the 26 million apps already downloaded, follows the launch of new BBC iPlayer on connected TVs and responsive web […]