According to a poll from Essential Research conducted in January, 66 per cent of Australians who download films, TV shows and music from peer-to-peer (free) sharing sites also subscribe to Netflix, Foxtel or other paid streaming service subscribers. This appears to indicate that if the content was available via those paid streaming services, piracy wouldn’t […]
Tencent, one of China’s and the world’s leading providers of online products and services, has reached an agreement with global sports content company ESPN. The deal builds on Tencent’s vast user base across the globe and ESPN’s expertise in sports content creation. Through the collaboration, ESPN’s content will be localised and exclusively distributed and promoted […]
Broadcast and pay-TV technology provider Motive Television has received approval from Apple for its TabletTV Internet App to be available to any iPhone user globally. The new App is available from today on all Apple App Stores in the world for a cost of $4.99/£2.99 (€3.96). The TabletTV Internet App enables users to access and […]
Sky 1’s brand new crime drama, Stan Lee’s Lucky Man, starring BAFTA-nominated actor James Nesbitt, has seen the viewing figures for its first episode increase by a record 1.14 million in the week after its launch, resulting in a consolidated audience of 1.74 million, thanks to its availability across a range of Sky viewing options. […]
Content and platform security specialist Friend MTS is ramping up the fight against video piracy with the introduction of Viper, which it says is the first technology-led anti-piracy solution specifically designed to tackle the growing threat from illegal IPTV set-top boxes. Friend MTS will showcase the solution at the CABSAT show in Dubai in March. […]
Without making specific allegations, the Future of TV Coalition – a diverse group of US programmers, content creators, civic groups and television providers formed to celebrate and promote the thriving innovation that is revolutionising the video viewing experience – has intimated that Google may well have had advanced warning of the FCC’s plans to introduce […]
Accessing free streams of top football matches is putting devices, and personal privacy, at great risk, says a study by computer science researchers at Stony Brook University in New York. It says the most popular sites attract upwards of eight million visits per month. But like many free services, the pirate sites rely on advertising […]
Michael Powell, President and CEO of US trade body the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) and a former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission himself, has hit out at plans by current incumbent Tom Wheeler to introduce regulation that he says would pave the way for software, devices and other innovative solutions to compete […]
Movie digital destination Fandango, a unit of NBCUniversal, is to acquire OTT service M-GO, a joint venture between Technicolor and DreamWorks Animation. The acquisition – the terms of which were not disclosed – comes on the heels of Fandango’s record-breaking 2015, when the company experienced 81 per cent growth in ticketing dollars year-over-year and added […]
Sky’s OTT TV streaming service NOW TV is to launch what it says is its most advanced TV box later this year. The brand new NOW TV Smart Box will bring together NOW TV’s wide range of pay TV content and over 60 live free-to-air channels. The addition of digital terrestrial television services pitches the […]