Erik Huggers, who now runs Intel’s Media division, is reportedly offering a 50-75 per cent premium over average ‘Internet TV’ rates. Huggers, according to trade mag Variety, has already concluded MOU agreements with the likes of News Corp, CBS and Viacom for a planned broadband OTT service. Huggers ran the BBC’s future media and technology […]
Australian online streaming company Quickflix is seeking maximise viewer interest in popular TV drama Game of Thrones by offering users the opportunity to own whole seasons for less money than its competitor iTunes. Users will be able to stream individual episodes of seasons one, two and three of Game of Thrones, or they can purchase […]
The world’s 20 biggest IPTV operators served 83 per cent of global IPTV households last year, with nine of the top 20 located in Western Europe, according to SNL Kagan. It says that as of year-end 2012, the nine biggest IPTV operators in Western Europe served 17.5 million subscribers – 30.4 per cent of the […]
The number of pay-TV subscribers in Western Europe increased by 1 million in 2012 to 94.1 million, and will climb by another million in 2013, according to a report from Digital TV Research. This comes despite pay-TV subscriptions falling in Italy (down by 482,000) and Spain (down by 350,000) in 2012. Italy and Spain will […]
Consumers’ access to Entertainment & Media content and experiences is being democratised around the world by ever increasing access to the Internet and explosive growth in the ownership of smart devices. According to a PwC report, growth in the industry will come from spending on digitally delivered media during the next five years, although most […]
CSG Systems, a provider of support solutions, has published the findings of a comprehensive survey that reveal key consumer decision points for choosing a digital content provider. Through an independent survey of 1,200 US consumers age 18-65, CSG challenged the prevalent notion that OTT content providers are preferred significantly over broadband pay-TV operators when consumers […]
Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, has announced that Magyar Telekom, Hungary’s largest telecommunications company, has deployed the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System VCAS for Internet TV to provide revenue security for its new OTT VoD service. The new OTT video offer expands the […]
Sky Deutschland has signed an agreement that will see its complete Sky package offering made available through Deutsche Telekom’s Entertain IPTV platform. Rolling out in July, over 50 new TV channels will become available on Entertain, including Sky Football Bundesliga, Sky Film and Sky World – boosting the total number of channels on Entertain in […]
The Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) has published a profile of HTML5, CSS, DOM3 and other related web technologies aimed at connected TV services and devices that implement a browser-based application environment. It describes a common profile based on the latest, stable web technologies defined by the W3C that are expected to be implemented by connected […]
Irish-owned online television service AerTV has reported a 130 per cent year-on-year increase in customer usage for the first quarter of this year. The service — which was launched 18 months ago — attracted 500,000 unique visits during the first three months of the year, with over 25 million minutes of television being consumed. The […]