As predicted by advanced-television.com, US retail giant Walmart has confirmed details of its disc-to digital conversion service. The service is powered by Walmart-owned video streaming service VUDU and will increase the take-up of the studio-backed UltraViolet digital content rights ecosystem. The initiative sees Walmart, in partnership with the major Hollywood studios Paramount Home Media Distribution, […]
As the BBC prepares a big push for its online coverage of this summer’s Olympic games, Ralph Rivera, the BBC’s director of future media, says this year could be pivotal for TV’s next evolution. “Our aspiration is that 2012 will do for digital and connected televisions what the coronation did for TV,” he told the […]
A report from Juniper Research finds that growing user satisfaction with mobile TV on tablets will push average monthly viewing times to 186 minutes per month in 2014. The report finds that as users become more accustomed to viewing content on tablets, and as a wider range of content becomes available on tablets, consumers will […]
Sky Italia has expanded the range of devices that its Sky Go multiscreen service is available on. Previously only available on iPads and Galaxy Tabs, the service is now accessible on PCs, Macs and iPhones. Sky Go, which offers 25 channels, is free to all Sky Italia HD customers – accounting for 73 per cent […]
Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has announced that its Premium Play service will be available for the iPad from April. The service provides access to over 2,000 TV programmes that can be watched on a TV, a computer or an Xbox console. Launched in November 2011, the Premium broadband service has now been running for 100 […]
Initial findings from the Mobile Media Consumption Q4 2011 survey conducted by independent mobile advertising network InMobi suggest that mobile has surpassed TV in terms of time spent,with mobile web users spending 27 per cent of their media time on mobile and spending 22 per cent of their media time on TV. InMobi suggests that […]
The relentless march toward digital media technology has driven the evolution of consumer electronics from specialised electronic devices to multipurpose, networked computing devices, with the advent of ‘smart CE devices’ having a profound effect on the digital multimedia home, according to research firm NPD In-Stat, who forecast that smart CE device unit shipments will surpass […]
Time Warner Chief Executive Jeff Bewkes has defended the autumn 2011 launch of digital movie technology UltraViolet, led by the Warner Bros. studio, stressing the importance of launching early rather than waiting for further improvements. Speaking at the Deutsche Bank Media and Telecommunications conference in Palm Beach, Bewkes said the reason the studio didn’t wait […]
US retail giant Wal-Mart Stores is in discussions with companies behind the UltraViolet (UV) common file format and digital rights authentication ecosystem to provide an in-store service that will assist customers in registering DVDs they already own, reports The Wall Street Journal. UV has some 800,000 household accounts in the US since the first UV-enabled […]
Samsung and Qualcomm have confirmed they will release a secure HD service utilising Qualcomm’s Snapdragon StudioAccess and ARM’s TrustZone technologies. This service allows consumers to watch HD videos directly on their mobile device through Samsung Media Hub. This secure HD service will be debuted on the 5.3″ HD Super AMOLED display of the Samsung Galaxy […]