TV Catchup – (nearly) the end of the road?
DLA Piper’s John Cloke (senior associate), Patrick Mitchell (legal director), and Jonathan Salt (trainee), assess the recent case brought by UK free-to-air broadcasters against...
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DLA Piper’s John Cloke (senior associate), Patrick Mitchell (legal director), and Jonathan Salt (trainee), assess the recent case brought by UK free-to-air broadcasters against...
FeaturesBT TV will become the first pay-TV provider in the UK to offer customers the buy-to-keep box set of Game of Thrones and other...
NewsFormula E is partnering with London startup Grabyo to bring the digital experience to fans and help accelerate the growth of its digital audience.
NewsVideo on-demand streaming service Wuaki.tv will be pre-installed on all Tesco hudl2 tablets. The supermarket’s own-brand model is currently the second best-selling tablet on...
NewsOnline streaming service Viewster has released a new mobile app for iOS and Android, enabling fans to watch a library of more than 10,000...
NewsGlobal shipments of over-the-top (OTT) set-top boxes (STBs) sold at retail including Apple TV, Chromecast and Roku boxes, will overtake shipments of IPTV STBs...
NewsFrance Télévisions has selected Arkena’s technical platform to optimise its catch-up TV offering, francetv pluzz.
NewsIndependent media services provider and post house TVT will provide BBC World News VoD content to Hulu Japan, which currently offers users more than...
News‘Preference is just the Beginning: Video Recommendations in the Age of Mobility’ the latest paper from nScreenMedia, commissioned by ContentWise, highlights the key factors...
NewsBBC Worldwide has expanded its contract with EBS to include non-linear EPG data services.
NewsUKTV has announced the launch of its free-to-air channel Drama on its new video on demand service UKTV Play.
Saffron Digital has joined up with Nowtilus, a content workflow platform provider, to add live streaming to its OTT platform MainStage.
NewsThe role of Big Data in the TV world is causing ripple effects around the industry, concludes GfK in its latest report, ‘Big Questions,...
BusinessConviva has released the findings of its inaugural report, which found that poor experience issues prompt nearly three-quarters of all OTT video viewers to...
NewsThe UK’s largest local TV broadcaster, Made Television, is launching its first ever Video on Demand catch-up service, OnView, with the help of Piksel.
NewsUK-based Paywizard is expanding its global footprint by launching in the Asia Pacific market.
BusinessOnline TV streaming service Now TV is now available for EE TV customers to access via their smart box.
NewsQatar TV and its sister network, the Al Kass Sports Channel have selected Elemental Technologies video processing systems to stream video content.
NewsTelestream will host the company’s first Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI) technology showcase, featuring the newly released Vantage DAI software solution.
The Deutsche Telekom Business Development and Innovation unit (BDI) and content services provider Vubiquity have partnered to enable a solution for operators and service...
NewsFollowing rumours last week about pricing, availability and partnerships, HBO yesterday officially confirmed the launch of its new streaming service, HBO Now, at Apple’s...
NewsHBO’s streaming service is expected to launch next month and may include a partnership with Apple, it has been reported.
Quickplay has announced the acquisition of New Jersey based Roundbox, a technology provider for the optimisation of video and other data-intensive applications over mobile...
BusinessAs the TV industry moves towards a more software based operating environment, more and more companies are turning to the cloud. And with benefits...
Millions of people tuned in last night to see which of their favourite films scooped one of the 87th Academy Awards.
TV viewers’ engagement with interactive applications, through the use of remote control buttons has been examined in a recent market research study by ADB.
NewsDigital TV service Freeview will be launching a new product that will introduce a mass market connected TV offer.
BusinessThe broadcast world has been a late convert to cloud computing, but the benefits are especially timely for an industry that embraces the concept...
Subscription video on demand (SVoD) services such as Netflix were available to 1.3 per cent of emerging market households in 2014, with a user...
Irdeto has launched its Eye on 2020 report, a series of predictions over the next five years covering trends that will impact the broadcast...
UPC Poland has made its Horizon TV platform available for commercial sale.
NewsCellcom Israel, Israel's largest cellular operator, has launched Cellcom tv, a new subscription Over-The-Top (OTT) TV and Video on Demand (VoD) service. Vubiquity is...
Pay TV services increased their subscriber numbers by just 1 per cent in the third quarter of 2014, according to informitv’s Multiscreen Index.
Quickplay and Comigo have announced an integrated solution that allows pay TV operators to deliver personalised viewing with advanced social capabilities and interactive apps...
Netflix is reportedly aiming to tackle users who have been using VPNs (virtual private networks) to watch TV shows which are not licensed for...
Harmonic's ProMedia Origin and ProMedia X Origin multiscreen media servers have been integrated with Microsoft PlayReady digital rights management (DRM) technology for content access...
M-GO, a premium transactional video on-demand (TVoD) service and joint venture between Technicolor and DreamWorks Animation, is now using Beamr Video to provide a...
NewsGerman free-of-charge VoD service Netzkino is now available on Amazon Fire TV, which can be connected to an HDTV to allow the user to...
NewsTalkTalk is pursuying a buyout of Tesco’s video streaming service Blinkbox, it has been reported.
BusinessItaly’s largest commercial broadcaster, Mediaset, is using Accenture Video Solution 4.0 to distribute its Infinity service to Chromecast users
VideosAfrican pay-TV provider MultiChoice has selected Clearleap to help it to deal with the rapidly increasing amount of content it needs to process.
As IPTV is moving from a linear to a complete TV experience incorporating live TV, on-demand services and third party content, the new world...