Rovi and LG Electronics have signed multi-year licencing agreements that expand their relationship and provide further integration of DivX technology into a wider range of consumer electronics devices. LG’s latest agreements support its plans to continue to promote the technology on devices beyond Blu-ray Disc players, to ultimately include HDTVs, in-car players, set-top boxes, tablets […]
Up to 60 per cent of mobile data traffic is generated by watching video, with Apple’s iPhone driving the demand, according to Bytemobile, traffic management. Itsaid the overall data demand was also likely to intensify as 90 per cent of the total data traffic was currently generated by just 10 percent of mobile data users. […]
Broadcast services company Red Bee Media, responsible for managing more than 90 per cent of broadcaster video on demand content consumed in the UK, has launched RedPlayer, which it claims is the first ‘media grade’, end-to-end, next-generation online video platform. RedPlayer allows broadcasters and content owners in the UK and internationally to deliver and monetise […]
Digital media services company Avail-TVN has unveiled its new fully-managed multi-screen video service – Any View – at the NCTA Cable Show in Chicago. AnyView allows service providers to cost-effectively and quickly extend the traditional VOD and linear television experience to authenticated, broadband-connected devices such as PCs, Macs, tablets and smart phones. Trials of the […]
Beginning in July, all Sky TV customers will have the opportunity to watch Sky channels and programmes on PCs, laptops, mobiles and tablets at no extra charge. Available free to all Sky TV customers from July 6, Sky Go – which brings together two existing services: Sky Player, Sky’s online TV service, and Sky Mobile […]
Alcatel-Lucent and online video management and publishing specialist thePlatform have formed a strategic alliance to help cable and IPTV providers deliver a new generation of video services to their subscribers’ TVs, PCs, tablets, mobile phones and more. The companies have joined forces to offer a multiscreen video platform that supports the delivery of live scheduled […]
Motorola Mobility is aiming to place greater control into consumers’ hands to personalise their TV viewing across multiple devices anywhere in the home with the launch of its Medios Xperience platform. As part of the Medios multi-screen service management software suite, the cloud-based applications platform allows service providers to merge video content with social networking, […]
Multi-screen hybrid television platform provider Sezmi Corporation and connected home solutions specialist Netgem have formed a partnership to include Netgem’s set-top-box hardware and software as part of Sezmi’s comprehensive TV offering. Sezmi brings a differentiated multi-screen TV experience to consumers with a system that adapts to varying network capabilities alleviating the need for service providers […]
Clearleap, the web-based TV technology platform, now enables TV operators to quickly bring an IP-based video service to tablets through its Stream On Demand solution. Clearleap’s flexible APIs enable rapid, custom application development for any IP-connected device without the complex and costly development effort usually required to bring new full feature applications to market. Clearleap’s […]
After mobile number portability, now for the first time in the country DTH portability will become a reality. Targeting around 6-8 million inactive DTH subscribers of the private direct-to-home operators, Dish TV is going to commercially launch a small device called CAM which will enable the DTH consumers to change their existing DTH operators without […]