Sky Deutschland plans to launch its Sky Sports HD 1 and Sky Sports HD 2 channels on the Apple iPad at the end of October. Meanwhile, ESPN America HD is to launch in Germany and Austria after striking a deal with Sky Deutschland. The iPad app will be free of charge to Sky subscribers until […]
South African broadcasters E.tv and M-Net plan to launch a trial of the upgraded European digital television standard, DVB-T2, in response the news that a pilot of the rival Brazilian and Japanese standard will soon get underway. The local broadcasters’ pilot will take place in Soweto. State-owned signal distributor, Sentech, is establishing test transmission sites […]
Bitbop, Fox Mobile Group’s on-demand mobile TV subscription service, is now available to millions of smartphone users on the Android platform. Bitbop’s wireless entertainment subscription service will be accessible across a variety of carriers on a number of smartphones including Droid by Motorola, Droid 2 by Motorola, Droid X by Motorola, HTC EVO 4G, […]
A coalition of leading US television broadcasters have announced the formation of the Mobile500 Alliance to accelerate the availability of mobile digital television, or Mobile DTV, service to consumers nationwide. The Mobile500 Alliance currently consists of 30 broadcast television companies, which collectively own 346 full-power television stations broadcasting in 167 markets. The markets represent […]
Dutch telco KPN is teaming up with telecoms specialist firms Alcatel-Lucent, KPN, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks and Sofia Digital under the auspices of industry body the bmcoforum to allow seamless consumption of TV and video either from mobile device, TV or computer. Member companies are identifying necessary standard enablers and profiling them for common industry […]
Qualcomm’s TV-onto-cellular devices operation Flo TV (AKA MediaFlo) has a foothold in Japan via a joint-venture with KDDI. The technology looks increasingly at risk if Japan selects a system developed by NTT’s DoCoMo division, which already has a massive head start in terms of deployed handsets. A decision could be reached this week when Japan’s […]
Market inhibitors are being addressed and worldwide adoption will accelerate starting in 2012 through 2015 when total market revenues are forecast to exceed $20 billion says AIB research. The three most important market barriers have been: – The lack of free and simulcast local and national TV programs as a primer for fee-based premium content […]
Envivio has announced that N-Type, a leading systems integrator in Taiwan, is deploying a multi-channel Envivio Mobile TV Headend that will enhance the capabilities of Taiwan’s largest telecommunications company, Chunghwa Telecom (CHT). The all-IP Envivio Mobile TV head-end featuring the 4Caster C4 Three Screens encoder/transcoder replaces CHT’s existing software-based infrastructure, enabling CHT to support today’s […]
ITV is in talks with Apple, Blackberry and Google's Android team about launching an ITV Player mobile app, which would allow users to catch up on the broadcaster's content any time and anywhere. It will be the first app to be released from a major UK broadcaster allowing TV catch-up on the most popular mobile […]
After successful launches on iPhone and iPod Touch, Canal+ Group channel offerings are now accessible on the Apple iPad in WiFi and 3G/3G+. Subscribers to Canal + Channels and / or Canalsat who own an iPad can download the application free-of-charge to access unencrypted Canal + services (live and VOD) and the rolling news channel […]