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Research: Apple big in streaming video

Sandvine, a provider of broadband network solutions, has released its Internet traffic trends report based on data from a selection of Sandvine’s 200-plus service provider customers spanning North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Caribbean and Latin America and Asia-Pacific. “We predict from this data that 2013 will be the year long-form video will make […]

May 14, 2013

Motive developing Tablet TV for UK

Motive Television has revealed it will be developing its Tablet Television technology to enable Freeview users in Britain to watch and record television programmes directly onto tablets – without the need to connect to the Internet. With Motive’s app and an antenna-tuner containing Motive’s technology, tablet users will be able to watch all the programming […]

May 14, 2013

Starz Play rolls out on new devices

Starz has announced a vast first wave of new device support for itsonline authenticated TV Everywhere services, Starz Play, Encore Play, and Movieplex Play.  The launch includes support for popular handsets and tablets on Android and other platforms including NOOK HD and NOOK HD+, and select Google Nexus devices including the Nexus 4, Nexus 7, […]

May 9, 2013

Mobile content revenues to hit $65bn in 2016

Annual revenue generated from content delivered to mobile handsets and tablets is expected to increase by nearly $25 billion over the next three years, reaching $65 billion by 2016, a report from Juniper has found. According to the report, growth would primarily be fuelled by an upsurge in game, video and eBook purchases via tablet […]

May 8, 2013

Half US adults watching video on non-TV devices

New consumer research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) finds that 27 per cent of adults in the US watch video on devices other than a TV set daily, and 53 per cent on a weekly basis. This is an increase from 14 per cent daily, and 37 per cent weekly two years ago. These non-TV […]

May 7, 2013

thePlatform simplifies live event publishing

Recognising that historically, media companies have needed to juggle separate back-end systems for managing live online events and the rest of their premium video assets, white-label video publishing company thePlatform has introduced a single Web-based console to schedule and manage live signal acquisition and encoding, handle dynamic advertising insertion and metadata creation, and automatically archive […]

May 7, 2013

BSkyB: Ready for a “Noisy summer”

Now that the dust has settled down on BSkyB’s Q3 results, perhaps it is time to reflect on the overall state of play in UK pay-TV. First, and provided you ignore the deliberate fudge over actual DTH net new subscriptions, which for Q3 were probably – at best – about 5,000, but if you just […]

May 5, 2013By Chris Forrester

Half Internet capable are connected and used

Forty-seven per cent of home entertainment devices (Internet-capable TVs, Blu-ray Disc Players, video game consoles, and streaming media devices) are currently connected and being used for their online capabilities. But the degree to which these devices are used online varies significantly, according to global information company The NPD Group’s Connected Intelligence Connected Home report. Internet-capable […]

May 3, 2013

Google Play on NOOK HD

NOOK Media, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, has announced it is expanding its catalogue of entertainment content with the addition of the Google Play on its NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ devices. “By adding Google Play to NOOK HD and NOOK HD+, we are offering our customers even more great entertainment on our award-winning […]

May 3, 2013

Vaizey updates on future of TV innovation

The Digital TV Group (DTG), the industry association for digital TV in the UK, has published the first status update of the government-backed Future of Innovation in Television Technology (FITT) Taskforce. Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, Ed Vaizey MP announced the publication of the update in his keynote speech to delegates at the […]

May 2, 2013Colin Mann @ DTG Summit