May 16, 2012 The emergence of a plethora of Internet-connected consumer devices, from web-connected TVs to smartphones, is yielding a world of new opportunities for content providers... May 10, 2012 Sky in 2011 accounted for more than half of net broadband subscriber additions in the United Kingdom, with 51 percent. This slightly exceeded the total for the incumbent internet service... April 18, 2012 Recent news of acquisitions and divestments in the U.S. cable market—most notably Cisco’s $5 billion purchase of NDS—underscore the industry’s shift in focus away from... April 5, 2012 Continuing a pattern that began nine years ago, international cinema box-office receipts increased their lead over those of the United States, according to a sampling of last... April 5, 2012 Continuing a nearly decade-long trend, international cinema box-office receipts in 2011 increased their lead over those of the United States, according to a sampling of last year’s... April 3, 2012 Recent news of acquisitions and divestments in the U.S. cable market—most notably Cisco’s $5 billion purchase of NDS—underscore the industry’s shift in focus away from set-top box (STB)... March 22, 2012 Americans will pay to consume more movies online in 2012 than they will on physical video formats, marking the first year that legal, Internet-delivered movies will outstrip those of... March 22, 2012 The number of digital cinema screens worldwide soared to nearly 64,000 in 2011, representing an 82 per- cent surge from the 35,070 installed screens at the end of 2010, according to... March 13, 2012 Driven by strong increases in emerging markets, global consumer spending on movies is expected to rise for six consecutive years, expanding from $61.4 billion in 2010 to... March 12, 2012 AT&T in the fourth quarter of 2011 added more video subscribers to its U-verse service than cellular/wireless archrival Verizon did for its FiOS offering, marking the... March 7, 2012 Google has rebranded its Android Market application store as Google Play as part of an initiative to unify its content offering including apps, games, music, movies and books... March 6, 2012 AT&T in the fourth quarter of 2011 added more subscribers to its Uverse service than archrival Verizon did for its FiOS offering, marking the 10th straight quarter of AT&T gains... February 27, 2012 South Korean electronics firm LG recently introduced the world’s first smartphone based on a quad-core processor, sounding the starting gun for the expected rollout of a slew of similar... February 24, 2012 Facebook’s days as a boomtown for game operators appear to have come to an end, with the total number of users stagnating amid rising barriers to entry, increasing competition and an intensifying... February 22, 2012 UltraViolet (UV)—the studio-backed effort to recharge retail sales of films by enabling ubiquitous digital access to purchased movies—has achieved a milestone of 800,000 household accounts... February 16, 2012 Home Box Office Inc.’s (HBO) joint venture with a Dutch cable operator may represent the opening round of the U.S. network’s bid to become a major player in the large... February 15, 2012 The technology media and telecommunications (TMT) business is always mutating, with revolutionary changes continually enabling new business models and disrupting established... February 3, 2012 What’s the best way to make money in the smartphone apps market?
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Surprisingly, the answer is to give away apps for free—and to generate revenue on subsequent sales of in-app purchases... December 23, 2011 Warner Home Video’s launch of the first UltraViolet-enabled Blu-ray Disc (BD) titles sounds the starting gun for the studios’ bid to resuscitate the health of their flagging video retail business by... December 22, 2011 Between October and December 2011, South Korean retail chains E-Mart, Homeplus and Lotte Mart have all launched their own branded TVs. E-Mart began selling its own branded... December 21, 2011 US cable operator Time Warner Cable (TWC) has extended remote-control functionality and DVR scheduling to Android devices. For Android handsets running Android 2.1 and... December 20, 2011 After the launch of the iPlayer app on Android and iPad in February 2011, the BBC has released an iPhone and iPod Touch version. The new app provides access to almost all of... December 20, 2011 Pay TV technology vendor NDS has filed for an IPO with the US stock market regulator, the SEC. NDS were taken private in 2009 when Permira completed the purchase of 51 percent of... December 20, 2011 Dutch cable operator Ziggo has updated its pre-existing "Ziggo TV" application for the iPhone and iPod Touch to enable subscribers to watch live streams of 10 Dutch... December 19, 2011 Poland's digital terrestrial television (DTT) multiplex 1 officially launched on 15 December with initial coverage of 15 per cent of the country's 14.5m homes. The multiplex is broadcasting... December 13, 2011 Global technology and Asian digital cinema rollout group GDC Technology has signed Virtual Print Fee agreements with 14 distributors in Hong Kong, facilitating the post-35mm... December 9, 2011 Philippines D-Cinema Alliance (DCA) has signed Virtual Print Fee (VPF) deals with four studios, and is in advanced talks with the two others, for supply of content in digital format to... December 9, 2011 UK retail giant Tesco and Blinkbox, the online TV and movie service which it acquired in April 2011, have launched the UK's first digital locker scheme, pre-empting the forthcoming UK... December 6, 2011 We are pleased to announce the addition of new online console data to the Games Intelligence service. The data added includes addressable online device data for upcoming... December 6, 2011 Verizon Wireless is purchasing 122 mobile spectrum licences from cable providers Comcast, Time Warner Cable (TWC) and Bright House Networks for $3.6bn. These AWS band licences... December 5, 2011 When the NFL announced that it would keep a stable of games - including the Thanksgiving Day game - for its NFL Network, many thought that it was a precursor to moving games away... December 1, 2011 Germany's largest cinema circuit, Cinestar, has agreed a VPF deployment deal with Arts Alliance Media (AAM) to facilitate conversion of up to 450 participating screens to... November 30, 2011 The 44 US media and technology stocks tracked by IHS Screen Digest decreased an average of 3.3% in November, a worse performance for the month than either the... November 29, 2011 According to IHS Screen Digest's tally of Q3 operating results, the number of subscription TV households in the US has remained relatively flat during the quarter... November 29, 2011 The year 2011 is on track to be the busiest year for cable system deals since 1999. According to IHS Screen Digest's research, 23 sale agreements for cable systems have been... November 24, 2011 45 mobile operators have pledged their support for subscriber identity module (SIM) based Near Field Communication (NFC) implementations in an announcement made by mobile... November 24, 2011 Arts Alliance Media (AAM) has made significant headway in rolling out its suite of digital cinema software products to key clients in all world.... November 23, 2011 BigFlix.com, which claimed to be India's largest online DVD rental subscription service, has stopped offering DVDs with immediate effect, instead offering its subscribers unlimited... November 22, 2011 On 21st November 2011, Arris, a communication technology company, announced closure of the deal to acquire BigBand Networks, a digital video networking solution... November 21, 2011 A flurry of recent activity from leading on-demand music services in Europe and North America has seen companies such as Spotify, Deezer and MOG sign new partnerships with... November 21, 2011 Amazon-owned disc-by-post and streaming service Lovefilm has signed a multi-year content deal with Warner Bros that will give its subscribers exclusive access to Warner titles in... November 21, 2011 Riot Games has revealed that its sole title, League of Legends, now receives 4m daily active users (DAUs) and 11.5m monthly active users (MAUs) on a worldwide basis. Registrations have... November 18, 2011 IHS Screen Digest forecasts for 2011 remain unchanged in the light of third quarter data compiled by GfK and published by the French Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC)...
November 18, 2011 After serving more than 120 years as the dominant projection format in movie theaters, the reign of cel¬luloid 35mm will come to an end in two short months when the majority of... November 16, 2011 Blockbuster UK has lowered the overnight rental price of selected films on DVD and Blu-ray to £0.99 ($1.58) throughout the company's 600-strong UK store base. Blockbuster... November 15, 2011 After serving more than 120 years as the dominant projection format in movie theaters, the reign of celluloid 35mm will come to an end in two short months when the majority of cinema... November 14, 2011 Sky Deutschland subscribers will be able to access multiscreen service Sky Go via the Xbox 360 console by the end of 2011. Bundesliga football coverage, Sky Sports channels and... November 14, 2011 Northland Telecommunications Corporation, a medium-size private cable operator serving rural communities in Texas, Washington, Georgia and California, has agreed to sell two... November 11, 2011 In late October, Electronic Arts launched a streaming demo of FIFA 12 on YouTube using Gaikai's live demo network. The posting marked the first time a 3D game demo was... November 11, 2011 Year-over-year unit sales comparisons for physical video discs continued to improve through the month of September as a selection of popular catalog titles debuted on the Blu-ray... November 10, 2011 Adobe will no longer continue to develop the Flash Player browser plugin to work with new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc.) following the upcoming... November 10, 2011 Charter Communications, the fourth largest US cable operator, has announced plans to launch an integrated search on Charter.net that will provide search results for content... November 9, 2011 Cinepolis, the largest exhibitor in Latin America, will proceed to upgrade all screens to digital. Deal comprises an order of over 3,000 projectors from Barco, which will include conversion of... November 9, 2011 Rakuten, a major online retailer in Japan, is to acquire 100 per cent of outstanding stock in Kobo, the Canadian ereader device maker and ebook store operator, in a $315m all cash... November 8, 2011 In mid-October Warner stopped supplying the newly-reorganized Blockbuster's bricks-and-mortar operation with day-and-date access to new video releases, in an echo of the 2009 studio... November 7, 2011 Brazilian rent-by-mail and streaming operator NetMovies has signed a multi-year distribution agreement with The Walt Disney Co., giving its subscribers access to Disney movies and ABC... November 4, 2011 All three of the major Russian social networks have seen heavy uptake of resource-management simulation games in the past year. The genre, brought into the spotlight by FarmVille via... November 3, 2011 UK-based mobile banking, payments, and commerce provider Monitise has received a £24.7m strategic investment from Visa Europe, the membership association comprising more than... November 3, 2011 Polish media group ITI Holdings and its broadcasting subsidiary TVN are negotiating a strategic partnership with the Canal Plus that is expected to lead to the merger of the N and Cyfra Plus... November 3, 2011 The US District Court for the Central District of California October 28 awarded The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) a permanent injunction against Zediva's parent company WTV... November 3, 2011 UK-based set-top box manufacturer Harvard International (HI) is to be acquired by Chinese set-top and cable network infrastructure vendor Chengdu Geeya Technology, through its... November 3, 2011 Epic Games announced in October that it had signed its largest technology licensing deal to date in Korea with the addition of Neowiz to its roster of Unreal Engine 3 licensees. Neowiz started... November 3, 2011 Christie Digital has signed first exhibitor to its recently announced VPF scheme in North America with Landmark Cinemas of Canada. The deal comprises a rapid conversion of over 100 screens to... November 3, 2011 Having tested a BD window on several of its Diamond- and Platinum-branded classic re-releases in a number of key territories, Disney released Pirates of the Caribbean: On... November 3, 2011 Disney’s “Lion King 3D” is one of a handful of key new releases from Hollywood studios that will help drive the high-definition Blu-ray 3D (BD3D) format into U.S. homes this holiday season... November 2, 2011 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) launched in the UK yesterday - its first venture outside the US. The line-up of PBS UK will include news programs, PBS News Hour and Frontline, the popular.... November 1, 2011 Disney is to buy 49 per cent of Russian terrestrial channel 7TV from broadcaster UTV for $300m, following a meeting between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Disney's CEO... October 28, 2011 The strong retail performance of “Thor” and the “Star Wars” saga on Blu-ray Disc (BD) prompted a 156 percent surge in U.S. sales of the format in the release week ending... October 24, 2011 UK mobile operator O2 is trialling a VoIP calling service. The service, called O2 Connect would allow Android and iOS smartphones to use voice and text services over Wi-Fi... October 24, 2011 Toy company Mattel has agreed to acquire the UK-based children's intellectual property owner HIT Entertainment for $680m from a consortium led by Apax Partners... October 24, 2011 Imax has licensed laser projection technology from Eastman Kodak in order to provide digital solutions for its largest screens. The deal includes license of a portfolio of over 50... October 24, 2011 Disney Channel is to launch on a free-to-air basis in Turkey in 2012. Previously available on pay TV platforms Digiturk (satellite) and Turksat (cable), the channel will be made... October 22, 2011 As one retransmission feud winds down, another argument is brewing that could result in a blackout. On 15 October, Mediacom and Lin TV resolved their dispute and... October 21, 2011 Despite having only a limited catalog of film titles to offer its audience compared to other types of movie discs, the U.S. Blu-ray 3D (BD3D) market is set for an eightfold increase in... October 21, 2011 Modern Times Group (MTG) reported four per cent year-on-year growth at constant exchange rates for the third quarter of 2011, reaching total revenues of SEK 3,106. EBIT increased... October 20, 2011 Google reported a 33 per cent year-on-year growth in Q3 2011, reaching global revenue of $9.72bn. Revenue from Google-owned sites amounted to $6.74bn or 69 percent of... October 20, 2011 Companies based in the United States dominated the list of the world’s Top 50 audiovisual firms in 2010, with U.S.-based Comcast Corp. leading the market with more than... October 17, 2011 Facebook has changed the manner in which it counts users of its apps. As of October 15, users that merely interact with a game's canvas page rather than actively playing the game... October 14, 2011 Analogue television transmissions will be switched off in the UK and the Republic of Ireland on 24 October 2012. Northern Ireland will be the last area of the UK to complete the... October 14, 2011 Strong sales of “Thor” and the “Star Wars” saga on Blu-ray Disc (BD) prompted a 156 percent surge in U.S. sales of the format in the release week ending September 18, possibly... October 13, 2011 Georgian mobile telecommunications operator Magticom, is planning to launch in the country's first satellite pay TV. Branded as Magtisat, the service is duie to launch in... October 12, 2011 Ukranian DTT multiplex operator Zeonbud has pushed ahead with a full DTT launch in the country, at the same time becoming the first Eastern European DTT platform to make... October 12, 2011 Canadian BlackBerry maker Research In Motion acquired Ireland-based NewBay software for an estimated $100m. NewBay provides content and social networking services to... October 12, 2011 Paramount has united its physical, TV VoD and over-the-top (OTT) distribution and licensing operations under a single Worldwide Home Media Entertainment division... October 11, 2011 French digital cinema deployment and services company Ymagis has taken two significant steps forward in key European territories by signing a major agreement with local... October 11, 2011 Facebook has updated its mobile services to offer increased support for Facebook applications and games on mobile devices as well as launching its long-awaited iPad...
October 7, 2011 Disney will convert a further three titles from its library of animated hits for release in 3D cinemas in 2012 and 2013. Other Disney titles allocated for 2D to 3D conversion now... October 7, 2011 The United States dominated the list of the world’s Top 50 audiovisual companies in 2010, and Comcast Corp. was the largest media group on the planet with more than... October 7, 2011 After a disappointing first half for DVD and Blu-ray (BD) disc retail sales, Hollywood studios are pin¬ning their second-half hopes on upcoming blockbuster release titles, according to... October 6, 2011 The proposed extension of California's 6.75% sales tax to apply to goods sold by out-of-state online retailers has been delayed from September 2011 to September... October 6, 2011 KPN has launched Interactive TV online - a new service enabling its IPTV subscribers to watch, pause and record live TV on their PCs and iPads, within the home. Currently 20... October 6, 2011 The BBC has unveiled a plan to cut costs by 20 per cent before the end of its 2016/7 financial year. Significantly, the cuts - necessitated by the licence fee being kept at its present... October 5, 2011 Product placement for TV programs in three key European Union (EU) markets, including the United Kingdom, France and Germany, will see steady revenue growth in the years to... October 4, 2011 French technology company Technicolor is to offload its 25.7% stake in ContentGuard, a DRM provider. The sale is part of a wholesale agreement with Pendrell Technologies, an... October 4, 2011 Norwegian telco and IPTV operator Altibox is to launch a multiscreen initiative in October 2011, branded 'Chilli'. Chilli will offer live TV and pay-per-view movies across a variety of... October 4, 2011 Sky has an opportunity to benefit after The European Court of Justice ruled that territory-based restrictions on the sale of foreign TV decoders and pay TV subscriptions breach... October 4, 2011 Luxembourg-based M7 Group has expanded its Eastern European pay TV footprint after buying Towercom-owned SkyLink, a pay satellite operator with businesses in the... October 4, 2011 Apple added a new iPhone 4S to its portfolio:•iPhone 3GS is now offered for free on a 2-year contract in the US.•iPhone 4 sees its capacity reduced to 8Gb and is now offered for... October 3, 2011 US digital music subscription service Rhapsody is to acquire its longstanding competitor Napster. The deal with Best Buy, Napster's parent company, will see Rhapsody take over the... September 30, 2011 Apple has launched its iTunes Music Store in 12 remaining European Union territories: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania...
September 30, 2011 IHS Screen Digest has added detailed data for historical retail video category and genre share from 1997 through 2010 to its US Video Intelligence service. Share of net retail unit... September 30, 2011 IHS Screen Digest has boosted significantly its coverage of smaller US cable operators. We have added operator-level historical data for an additional 179 cable operators and... September 30, 2011 Sony has announced that DC Universe Online, an MMOG released for both PC and PS3 in January, will be switching from compulsory-subscription to a hybrid free-to-play... September 29, 2011 Doubling down on its effort to accelerate its transition from a DVD-by-mail service to an over-the-top pay TV network, Netflix announced September 18 the spin-off of its DVD... September 29, 2011 Thor can claim top Blu-ray Disc (BD) sales by volume in the release week it shared with Star Wars' high-definition debut (week ending September 18, 2011) but the latter brought... September 28, 2011 Small US video rental kiosk operator Public Media Works announced September 26 that it has voluntarily filed a petition for protection under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy... September 27, 2011 Lithuanian cable TV player CGates has signed a deal to acquire the country's fourth largest cable TV player, Microvisatos. Financial terms were undisclosed. Following the... September 23, 2011 Google has launched its Google Wallet mobile payments service, initially supporting Citi MasterCard credit and Google's own prepaid card in the US. Announced in late... September 23, 2011 Hulu has announced that its subscription-based, streaming service -- Hulu Plus has reached 1m paying subscribers since the $7.99-a-month service launched in... September 21, 2011 French pay-TV group Canal Plus has been fined €30m by the French competition authority, L'Autorité de la Concurrence, for failing to uphold a number of commitments it made when... September 20, 2011 Sky Italia and Mediaset Premium look set to retain key rights to the Serie A football championship from next... September 20, 2011 At the recent BUILD Windows developer event, unveiled the preview version of Windows 8 the next version of its PC operating system. Windows 8 brings with it a number of... September 19, 2011 Orange UK has launched a new mobile content subscription service "Swapables". Oranges' top-tier mobile subscribers will have access to a range of content, including on-demand... September 17, 2011 Eight TV stations operated by Lin Media have gone dark for Mediacom subscribers as the cable company and broadcaster continue to disagree over carriage fee... September 15, 2011 Liberty Global has chosen Comcast subsidiary thePlatform to provide the backend video content management system (CMS) across its online video properties. Liberty Global will use... September 14, 2011 Subscriber revenue in the combined markets for PC massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) and non-massive multiplayer online games (MOGs) in North America and... September 9, 2011 Despite a decline in video subscribers, the second quarter actually was a strong period for the U.S. pay-TV business, with revenue-generating units (RGU) for cable rising robustly due... September 9, 2011 We are pleased to announce the addition of new online games data for both MMOGs and also the newly-sized sector of MOGs. MOGs, or multiplayer online games, currently cover PC-based... September 9, 2011 Adobe is expanding on its mobile delivery options with the release of Adobe Flash Media Server (FMS) 4.5 and Adobe Flash Access 3.0 products, which allow its media server... September 9, 2011 RIM (Research In Motion) has unveiled a subscription music service for its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) users. Initially available in closed beta in the US, UK and Canada, the... September 9, 2011 Slovak public broadcaster STV ended its analogue terrestrial broadcast at the beginning of this month (September), beating the main commercial stations; J&T-owned TV JOJ and... September 8, 2011 EA's The Sims Social, launched in the second week of August on Facebook, has achieved current user metrics of 31 million monthly active users (MAUs) and 8 million daily active users... September 7, 2011 Netflix has launched its streaming service in Latin America and the Caribbean. The rollout will be staggered, starting with Portuguese-language version in Brazil on 5 September... September 7, 2011 Despite the rising specter of cord cutting, the European cable market continued to expand in 2010, with revenue throughout the E.U. rising by nearly 8 percent for the year on the... September 6, 2011 Activision Blizzard has announced that map packs for Call of Duty: Black Ops have totalled 18m units, helping boost digital revenues for the company to $1.7bn for the year ending... September 6, 2011 After closing its satellite TV platform Poverkhnost+ last year, investment group ISTIL is planning to push ahead with a new Ukranian satellite offer branded Xtra TV later this... September 6, 2011 One of Germany's main book wholesalers Koch, Neff & Volckmar GmbH (KNV) has announced its plans to launch a white-label service that will enable booksellers to launch... September 5, 2011 The UK home video supply chain of disc replicator and distributor Sony DADC is back in place following a fire that destroyed the company's only UK warehouse during the... September 2, 2011 In the wake of selling off their digital distribution assets to Technicolor, US digital cinema services and content provision company Cinedigm has sold off cinema screen advertising... September 2, 2011 The number of pay-TV households in the United States declined by nearly 380,000 in the second quar¬ter as traditional cable and satellite video providers continued to lose... August 31, 2011 RealD has struck its second long term deal with a Chinese cinema circuit for a bulk order of digital 3D equipment. As part of deal with Bejing SAGA Luxury Cinema Management Co... August 31, 2011 Content Delivery Network (CDN) Limelight Networks will sell EyeWonder to DG (formerly DG FastChannel), for approximately $66m in cash. Eyewonder provides ad... August 30, 2011 The Australian Blu-ray Disc (BD) rental sector showed healthy signs in the first half of 2011, building upon the growth recorded in 2010, according to our analysis of data from... August 26, 2011 Amazon has announced content deals with NBC Universal and CBS that expand the online retail giant’s Prime Instant Video streaming library by 50 percent from about 6,000 titles to... August 26, 2011 Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (WDSHE) is to release the Toy Story trilogy on Blu-ray Disc 3D (BD3D) in the US in November 2011. Simultaneously, the studio will... August 25, 2011 Miramax has launched a Facebook application 'Miramax eXperience'. Miramax eXperience allows Facebook users to rent movies and stream clips; it also includes... August 25, 2011 Slovakia's govrnment has drawn up a bill to abolish the TV licence fee from January 2013. Public broadcaster STV will be funded via a direct government subsidy instead. The bill... August 24, 2011 The UK Secretary of State has announced a new framework for the launch of local TV stations. 65 towns and cities including Birmingham, Manchester and Newcastle could potentially be offering new local television services in... August 23, 2011 HP will halt webOS hardware development and production (namely smartphones and tablets) in Q4 2011. webOS' future as a software platform remains uncertain, with HP "exploring... August 23, 2011 BSkyB is restricting competition between pay TV providers in the UK due to the fact it has first pay TV window movie rights from all six major Hollywood movie studios, according to... August 22, 2011 UK-based pay satellite operator BSkyB will provide set-top boxes (STBs) for Italian pay satellite operator Sky Italia, via its in-house STB manufacturer Amstrad. Currently, BSkyB... August 22, 2011 Sony has announced a deal with satellite TV provider DirecTV to bring its exclusive sports package NFL Sunday Ticket to PS3 consoles. The package will feature live coverage of up to... August 22, 2011 Spanish pay TV operator Prisa TV has ended its offer of pay-per-view live sports on its DTH satellite TV platform, Digital Plus. The operator has instead increased the number of... August 22, 2011 Reversing its previous declines in market share, iTunes in the first half of 2010 managed to pad its leadership position in the U.S. online movie market, according to... August 19, 2011 Time Warner Cable (TWC), the second largest cable operator in the US with 12.2m subscribers, has agreed with Carlyle Group, Crestview and midOcean Partners to acquire... August 19, 2011 Online video platform Ooyala is now powering all the videos on espn.com. ESPN, like many content owners, had previously been using their own video system - in this case one that was... August 19, 2011 The Football Association (FA) and Budweiser, the lead sponsor of the FA cup (the UK's largest knock out competition), have agreed to stream an extra preliminary round of the... August 18, 2011 Telecom operator Orange UK has launched a new marketing campaign offering a pre-selected movie to download on iTunes to all its customers every Thursday at the cost of... August 18, 2011 IHS Screen Digest estimates there was a decline of approximately 364,000 pay TV households in the US over the second quarter of 2011, based on recently reported operating... August 17, 2011 Walmart has announced that it is to close its online music store after eight years of operation. The retail giant never made a significant impact on the digital music market despite adopting... August 17, 2011 US-based lifestyle channel group Scripps has purchased Virgin Media's 50 per cent stake in UK channel operator UKTV for £339m. The deal consisted of £239m cash with an... August 16, 2011 EA has announced Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes for PC, to be developed by subsidiary Bioware. The game will be free-to-play, and built around the... August 16, 2011 Amazon has acquired PushButton - a UK-based developer of interactive television services from traditional red button services to applications for connected TV sets. Financial terms... August 16, 2011 Most of the commercial interest around 3D in entertainment has been related to movies and cinema box office takings. Global box office revenue from 3D screens recorded over... August 15, 2011 Viacom is to launch a selection of new channels in the Netherlands and extend the reach of existing channels starting from the beginning of September. All deals are expected... August 15, 2011 Google and Motorola Mobility Holdings (MM) announced a definitive agreement that will see Google acquire MM for $40 a share in cash, making the total deal worth about... August 12, 2011 Polish broadcaster TVN Group reported a 7 per cent year-on-year increase in net revenues from €138m to €147m in the second quarter of 2011. The broadcaster has business... August 12, 2011 The state-owned incumbent telco in Luxembourg, P&T, will commercially launch 100Mbit/s and 30Mbit/s broadband services via its hybrid VDSL and... August 12, 2011 Global box-office revenue from 3-D movie screens soared to $6.1 billion in 2010, more than double the $2.5 billion generated in 2009, according to a new IHS Screen Digest Cinema Intelligence report from information and analysis provider IHS (NYSE: IHS). August 11, 2011 U.S. consumers in 2010 spent a hefty 63 percent more on entertainment media than their Western European counterparts, but the gap narrows considerably when... August 11, 2011 Digital projector manufacturer Christie, under parent company Ushio, has launched a virtual print fee programme (VPF) for cinema exhibitors in North America. The Christie VPF... August 9, 2011 Liberty Global's content wing, Chellomedia, has launched three TV channels, TV Paprika, JimJam and MGM, on Romtelecom's largest satellite platform, Dolce, which has close to... August 8, 2011 German incumbent telco Deutsche Telekom ended Q2 2011 with nearly 2m IPTV subscribers across Europe, a YoY growth of 36.6 per cent. The operator, which provides both IPTV... August 5, 2011 Spain's Ministry for Industry, Tourism and Communications (MITYC) has announced the results of the recent 4G spectrum auction. The three largest mobile operators Telefónica... August 5, 2011 DirecTV, the second largest US pay-TV operator, confirmed this week that it had posted the smallest quarterly subscriber gain in its history during last quarter. The company added only... August 4, 2011 Global box-office revenue from 3-D movie screens hit $6.1 billion in 2010, more than double the $2.5 billion generated in 2009, according to a new IHS Screen Digest Cinema Intelligence... August 3, 2011 UK cinema admissions in the first six months of 2011 rose by a slight 0.7 per cent to hit 80.7m up from 80.1m in the same period in 2010, according to data from the... August 2, 2011 BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, has launched the global version of the iPlayer as an iPad app. The application is now available in 11 European countries... August 2, 2011 Zynga has announced a Facebook instalment of its smartphone title Words With Friends, that offers cross-platform play with the existing Android and iOS iterations of the... August 2, 2011 Despite the growth of on-demand video and recording technologies such as the digital video recorder (DVR), the vast bulk of consumer television viewing time is still... August 1, 2011 Leading mobile application publishers have adapted their services in response to Apple's rules regarding in-app purchases and...
August 1, 2011 Leading French broadcaster TF1 reported a 4.7 per cent year-on-year (yoy) increase in its total net advertising revenue (NAR) to €905m for the first half (H1) of...
July 29, 2011 Social network gaming operator Zynga has partnered major Chinese online-gaming company Tencent, to release its key Facebook title CityVille in the region. Localised for the... July 29, 2011 Pan-European broadcaster RTL Group has this week closed deals in three markets, increasing its control of free-to-air broadcasters.
July 29, 2011 Facing pressure from IPTV providers in key markets and financially-challenger consumers, Time Warner Cable (TWC) reported a one per cent decline in its basic video... July 29, 2011 BSkyB says it will continue to monitor its directors and respond appropriately to concerns over the management board's composition, but dismissed as 'ludicrous' any suggestion that... July 29, 2011 Technicolor is having a busy summer with a series of acquisitions and deals that continue to shape the company's structure as it repositions for a digital media... July 28, 2011 Chinese box office grew by 18 per cent in the first half of 2011 to reach RMB5.7bn ($884.2m) with local films taking a 51 per cent market share. Highest-ranked title in first six... July 28, 2011 Paramount is to close its operations in Benelux, handing the distribution of its titles in the region to Universal under a reciprocal deal that IHS Screen Digest understands will also... July 27, 2011 Danish cable operator Stofa has cancelled its acquisition of Canal Digital's Danish cable operations from Telenor. The sale, first announced in January 2011 and expected to be... July 27, 2011 Operator of games focused Japanese mobile social network Mobage Town, DeNA has launched its Mobage smartphone social games platform for Android devices in...
July 26, 2011 Software provider Adobe is closing two mobile application platforms and stores. In response to developer feedback it is no longer accepting new submissions for its... July 25, 2011 European Commission's MEDIA Programme has launched its support fund for digital cinema, aiming to help exhibitors that are unlikely to find funding within VPF or other private... July 22, 2011 Private equity group BC Partners has agreed to buy Swedish cable giant Comhem from current owners Carlyle and Providence Equity Partners for Skr17bn (€1.8bn). The deal... July 22, 2011 U.S. consumers purchased an estimated 1.75 million Blu-ray Disc 3D (BD3D) discs at retail during the format’s first 12 months on the market, and brought home another 1.7 million... July 21, 2011 In the quarter ending 30th June 2011 Apple achieved revenues of $28.6bn - the highest quarterly revenues in the company's history - representing... July 21, 2011 Turner Networks announced that it has begun streaming of CNN and its sister channel Headline News to computers and iOS devices. Turner's move to bring a live linear feed to smaller... July 21, 2011 On-demand music service Spotify is now available in the US. The company has first announced US expansion plans over two years ago, but but has only recently managed to secure... July 20, 2011 Croatian incumbent telco T-HT has acquired exclusive rights to the country's national football league, with games being shown via the Arenasports channels on the telco's IPTV platform... July 19, 2011 Quickflix, Australia's largest online video rental subscription company has acquired the business of competitor BigPond Movies (BM). The latter company, which was... July 19, 2011 “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2” achieved a record-opening weekend at the box office with $168 million domestically, positioning it to outperform... July 18, 2011 Among the countries in Europe, Norway represents a major hotbed for online television, with revenue expected to more than double from 2009 to 2015, according to a new report from IHS Screen Digest’s Broadband Media... July 15, 2011 Bona Film Group, listed in the US on Nasdaq in December 2010 and active in Chinese film distribution, has acquired full ownership of Beijing Bona Starlight Cineplex Management for... July 15, 2011 France Telecom and Canal Plus have finalised the strategic premium film channel partnership, first revealed in January, covering the Orange-brand film... July 15, 2011 HMV Group has posted annual profits before tax and exceptional items of £28.9m for the 53 weeks to 30 April 2011 - a 61% drop from the £74.2m pre-tax profit reported for... July 14, 2011 News Corporation yesterday dropped its offer to take full control of BSkyB. A company statement quoted Chase Carey, Deputy Chairman, President and Chief Operating Officer: 'We... July 13, 2011 Zynga’s latest title released for Facebook, “Empires & Allies,” has accrued more than 40 million monthly active users (MAUs) during its first month on the market according... July 12, 2011 News Corporation's bid to buy the 61 per cent of BSkyB it does not own has, after all, been referred to the Competition Commission (CC) after News Corporation withdrew its... July 12, 2011 Norwegian incumbent telco Telenor will buy fibre broadband providers LOS Bynett and Bynett Privat, both subsidiaries of Agder Energi, pending regulatory approval. Telenor will pay... July 11, 2011 U.S. consumers purchased an estimated 1.75 million Blu-ray Disc 3-D (BD3D) discs at retail during the format's first 12 months on the market, and brought home another... July 8, 2011 Zediva filed a court document in late June opposing Hollywood studios' motion for an injunction against its nascent DVD streaming service, citing a number of cases it feels... July 8, 2011 Dish Network, which April 6 acquired the assets of number-one US rentailer Blockbuster for around $320m at auction, seems clearly interested in... July 8, 2011 Zynga’s latest title released for Facebook, “Empires & Allies,” has accrued more than 40 million monthly active users (MAUs) during its first month on the market. Currently the second most popular app on... July 7, 2011 UK broadcaster ITV launched a catch-up video on demand application for iPhone, iPod Touch 3rd and 4th generations, iPad and Android devices versions 2.2 and... July 6, 2011 Discovery Networks Benelux has launched a Dutch programming block of female-orientated lifestyle and entertainment channel TLC via a timeshare on... July 4, 2011 Belgian incumbent telco Belgacom has expanded its Multiscreen TV initiative through a new 'TV Everywhere' service adding access on smartphones and... July 1, 2011 Advertising network Specific Media has acquired social network MySpace for $35m - less than 10 per cent of the $580m the previous owner NewsCorp paid for... June 30, 2011 The UK government is sticking to its intention to clear the proposed complete takeover of BSkyB by its main shareholder, News Corporation. Following a consultation into... June 30, 2011 The market for mobile gaming in the United Kingdom more than doubled in 2010 as the rising respectability of online wagering and the proliferation of smartphones attracted new... June 30, 2011 Zynga is expected to file the required S-1 financial form as a precursor to its initial public offering (IPO) during the next few days. Zynga’s S-1 will reveal the company’s incredible growth since... June 29, 2011 Start-up connected set-top box (STB) company Roku has announced that its Roku XD player is now available in Walmart retail stores across the US. The set-top box has landed... June 29, 2011 New Zealand's Parliament has passed the Telecommunications Amendment Bill that after a third round of amendments lays out the procedures for delivering... June 28, 2011 Lithuanian authorities are planning changes to 'must carry' obligations, as well as launching obligatory licensing on cable TV networks. Additionally, the authorities want ... June 28, 2011 The market for mobile gaming in the United Kingdom more than doubled in 2010 as the rising respectability of online wagering and the proliferation of smartphones attracted new users... June 24, 2011 Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera has gatecrashed the bidding for domestic TV rights to French football, winning one package of live matches with Canal Plus snapping up... June 24, 2011 Sony Digital Cinema 4K has signed UK exhibitor Everyman Cinemas, a boutique independent circuit of eight sites, to its VPF-backed rollout... June 23, 2011 The UK mobile broadband market is facing two potentially disruptive events before the 4G spectrum auction is scheduled to begin. The telecom's regulator Ofcom has announced... June 23, 2011 DVD rental service Lovefilm is ramping up its digital offer in Germany. The company has reached deals with Sony and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) to make... June 22, 2011 Zynga's latest title released for Facebook, Empires & Allies, has accrued over 35m monthly active users (MAUs) during its first three weeks... June 22, 2011 Telenor has agreed to sell its Swedish Canal Digital cable and IPTV operations to cable giant Com Hem for Skr85m (€9.26m). As part of the acquisition, Com Hem will receive... June 22, 2011 The two largest cinema circuits in Canada, through joint venture entity Canadian Digital Cinema Partnership (CDCP), have secured $115m in financing to enable... June 21, 2011 Nokia unveiled its strategy for the second half of the year with announcements pertaining to software, new hardware and developer...
June 21, 2011 Everything Everywhere, Telefónica UK and Vodafone UK formed a joint venture (JV) focusing on mobile marketing and payment... June 20, 2011 The proliferation of mobile music services continued with new products from Sony and online music veteran Napster. Sony has extended its Qriocity service to offer... June 20, 2011 Content delivery network (CDN) Cotendo has raised a total $39m from investors, following a third round of funding which raised $17m and secured partners... June 17, 2011 TVN and incumbent telco TP SA have implemented their co-operation agreement, signed in October. New subscribers to TP's IPTV and satellite services will now receive... June 17, 2011 Boxee the US-based start-up has announced UK partnerships with the BBC and Tesco's online video service, Blinkbox. The Boxee platform has gained an official iPlayer app... June 16, 2011 Broadcast and media service provider Red Bee has launched its first online video platform (OVP), dubbed RedPlayer. The OVP is available as a managed service... June 16, 2011 Online video management company thePlatform has announced a non-exclusive partnership with Alcatel-Lucent aimed at cable and IPTV operators... June 15, 2011 Odeon & UCI Cinemas group has acquired a further seven multiplexes with 51 screens from Italian multiplex player Giometti Cinema, further consolidating its market leading status in... June 14, 2011 UK pay satellite operator BSkyB is restructuring its current multiscreen offering; split into Sky Player and Sky Mobile TV; into a new branding called Sky Go. The new service will... June 14, 2011 The Danish Film Institute (DFI) has published final details of its government-led support for cinemas upgrading to digital. The incentives are primarily aimed at... June 13, 2011 Belgian telco Belgacom has lost its exclusive hold on rights to the Jupiler League, Belgium's domestic football championship. In the new contract, running from three seasons from 2011/12... June 13, 2011 European online advertising grew by 15.3 per cent to €17.7bn in 2010 according to the IAB Europe Adex study.
With an average growth rate of... June 13, 2011 The DVD and Blu-ray Disc (BD) release of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” in April bolstered U.S. physical video sales following a soft first quarter... June 10, 2011 Austria's incumbent telco, Telekom Austria (TAG) has bought Croatia's largest cable TV provider, B.Net. TAG paid Austrian energy company BEWAG $93m to acquire B.net via its Croatian subsidiary... June 10, 2011 Worldwide box-office receipts dropped 16 percent in the first quarter of 2011 due to a post-Avatar effect in which movie houses were unable to compete at the same level as last year... June 9, 2011 The recent trend for consolidation in mobile social games continued with Research In Motion's (RIM) acquisition of German mobile social games community Scoreloop... June 9, 2011 EchoStar has acquired broadband satellite company Hughes Communications for $1.3bn. The deal (worth $2.0bn when taking into account debt) will give EchoStar access to Hughes ... June 9, 2011 French incumbent telco France Telecom has launched a firmware-upgraded Livebox 2, manufactured by Chinese hardware vendor ZTE. The ZTE device will be supplied to new subscribers... June 8, 2011 At its annual worldwide developer conference, Apple unveiled the new version of its iOS operating system (OS) that powers its iPhone, iPod touch and iPad mobile devices.
Apple claims iOS 5 will bring over 200 user-facing enhancements, including... June 3, 2011 The European Commission (EC) has reported progress to date on delivering on the EU's Digital Agenda, launched in May 2010 to boost broadband adoption in the EU, alongside other aims... June 3, 2011 Summit Home Entertainment has announced it will make sci-fi thriller Source Code available on US digital and on-demand platforms 18 days ahead of its US packaged media release... June 2, 2011 Samsung will make 3D content available through their internet-enabled TVs (IETVs) in the US. The service, which originally launched in South Korea in March, will stream 3D video directly to... June 2, 2011 Following a spate of acquisitions across continental Europe, Pan-European circuit giant Odeon UCI has finalised a deal to acquire nine cinemas in Ireland comprising 62 screens plus two further sites... June 2, 2011 Entone: GTC Broadband, a telecommunications company serving customers in Missouri, America has selected Entone as set-top box provider for its high-definition IPTV service rollout... June 2, 2011 Following on from recent signing of Carmike Cinemas, Deluxe/Echostar's joint venture satellite service has signed a distribution agreement with USA's fifth largest exhibitor... June 2, 2011 HBO will begin picking up modest gains in subscribers through 2015, according to new IHS Screen Digest (NYSE:IHS) research.
As a result of this increase... June 1, 2011 Broadcasting infrastructure company Arqiva will wind down online video service SeeSaw by the end of June 2011, less than a year and a half since the service had its public launch... May 27, 2011 26 May 2011 marked the official launch of digital terrestrial television (DTT) in Ireland.
The service, branded Saorview, includes eight channels with... May 27, 2011 Google unveiled new Android music and movie services alongside a range of announcements and demos during the Android keynote at its annual I/O developer conference... May 26, 2011 Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides grossed an estimated $90.1m at the US box office at opening weekend translating as the largest opening revenue haul of 2011 to date... May 26, 2011 Amazon sales of ebooks have passed the number of combined paperback and hardback books sold as of April this year, at a rate of 105 ebooks to every 100 print books sold... May 25, 2011 Windows Phone 7.1 is the first significant update since Windows Phone 7 handsets launched in Q4 2010.
Among the improvements, Windows Phone 7.1 promises... May 25, 2011 IHS Screen Digest has added PC core games download-to-own market sizing and forecasting to Games Intelligence. Consumer spending and unit volumes are split into all territories and regions... May 25, 2011 PopCap Games has launched two new online-gaming services in Asia. First is a rework of Plants vs Zombies, now fleshed with a variety of elements common to social network gaming... May 23, 2011 Movies4Men channel owner, Dolphin Broadcast Services, has secured carriage rights on one of the UK's local digital terrestrial multiplexes... May 20, 2011 Deluxe/Echostar's satellite distribution joint venture has signed up its first major client in Carmike Cinemas. Service can deliver all forms of digital content, including live alternative content... May 20, 2011 A new entrant in the UK broadband market, Hyperoptic, will offer fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) in London and other cities by September 2011. The telco has been set up by the same team which... May 19, 2011 Spanish IPTV service Imagenio ended Q1 2011 with two thousand fewer subscribers than the previous quarter. The platform experienced its first decline in subscribers in two years... May 19, 2011 Ireland's largest DVD rentailer Xtra-vision has entered into examinership after experiencing financial difficulties attributed to a lack of cash flow. Accountancy firm Ernst and Young has been... May 19, 2011 Panasonic has extended its exclusive promotional tie-in with US studio Fox, bundling the Blu-ray Disc 3D (BD3D) version of landmark title Avatar with a broader selection of Panasonic hardware... May 19, 2011 Cinram International Income Fund has entered into a multiyear service agreement with TF1 Vidéo, the home entertainment subsidiary of France's largest domestic television network TF1... May 19, 2011 French set-top box (STB) manufacturer Technicolor has ruled out producing boxes for the upcoming UK free-to-air (FTA) platform YouView, closely following the release of YouView's core... May 19, 2011 Consumer expenditures on entertainment media in North America and Europe grew a mighty 69 percent to $234.8 billion in 2010, up from $138.8 billion in 2000... May 18, 2011 Logitech has revealed, in its fiscal year 2011 report, the quarterly revenues pertaining to the Google TV-based Revue products and associated peripherals... May 16, 2011 The next contract for the TV rights to Ligue 1 in France could see live coverage of the football championship on free-to-air TV for the first time - and possibly on a channel operated by... May 16, 2011 UK out-of-home (OOH) advertising revenues increased by one per cent year-on-year in Q1 2011 according to the latest figures released by the Outdoor Media Centre... May 16, 2011 Amid booming consumer spend on PC social networking games in 2010, Zynga managed to pad its market share lead over the other top operators, based on the success of its CityVille and FarmVille... May 13, 2011 ITV television advertising revenues grew 12 per cent (Screen Digest was expecting 11.5 per cent) in the first quarter of 2011. Revenues from the 'Broadcast and Online' category were up... May 13, 2011 HBO has achieved more one one million downloads of the mobile app offering access to HBO Go since its launch on 29 April. The mobile app is available on Apple's iPhones and iPads as well as... May 12, 2011 Finnish cable operator DNA has launched 200Mbit/s broadband via DOCSIS 3.0 across its entire cable footprint. The new service, previously available in Helsinki, is now available in... May 11, 2011 Belgian projector group Barco has extended its vendor-backed digital cinema financing scheme, specifically for use with Cinedigm's Phase 2 rollout. Barco has an extra $15.6m in finance... May 11, 2011 Pace plc of the United Kingdom in 2010 became the world’s No. 1 seller of set-top boxes (STBs) in terms of unit shipments for the first time ever on an annual basis, surpassing Motorola... May 9, 2011 Online music video service Vevo has launched in the UK, ahead of further roll-outs expected in Europe, Brazil, Australia and the Middle East later this year. UK residents previously had limited access to... May 5, 2011 At least a few of Blockbuster's remaining rental stores seem likely to continue operations following the April 6 acquisition of that company's assets by Dish Network at auction... May 5, 2011 Electronic Arts has agreed to acquire Australian iOS and mobile games developer Firemint, the studio behind the popular Flight Control and Real Racing titles. In its Q1 2011... May 5, 2011 Netflix reported 27 April 2011 it has achieved 46% year-over-year revenue growth in its first fiscal quarter of 2011, which ended 31 March 2011. The company saw global revenue for its subscription... May 5, 2011 Coinstar reported 28 April 2011 the results of its first fiscal quarter for 2011, ended 31 March 2011. The company said it saw total revenue grow to $424m and expected to see between... May 5, 2011 Recent reports of relatively poor video performance in the first quarter of this year have pointed to the box office of the slate, which was down from Q1 2010 by over 20%, as a factor... May 5, 2011 Leading giant screen company Imax has signed a revenue sharing deal with US regional operator Southern Theatres for installation of four digital Imax screens by July 2011... May 5, 2011 PopCap Games has acquired fellow US-based company ZipZapPlay, for an undisclosed amount. This is the first company that PopCap has purchased since acquiring... May 3, 2011 Caribbean IPTV operator Telefonia Bonairiano (Telbo) will deploy Amino's A140 HD set-top box to customers as it transitions services to HD... May 3, 2011 Combined revenues from the four major mobile application stores run by Apple Inc., Google Inc., Nokia Corp. and Research In Motion Ltd. will leap 77.7 percent in 2011... May 2, 2011 DISH Network has reversed three quarters of subscriber losses by adding 58,000 net subscribers during 1Q 2011. The satellite pay TV operator also grew average revenue per user... April 29, 2011 Funding and acquisition deals in 2010 for the worldwide video games market rose a robust 36 percent to a total of 210, driven by developments in the online and social network gaming... April 28, 2011 BSkyB reported a strong set of results for the first three months of 2011, with a continuing slowdown in its core pay TV service offset by gains in triple play, wholesale and advertising... April 28, 2011 Combined revenues from the four major mobile application stores run by Apple Inc., Google Inc., Nokia Corp. and Research In Motion Ltd. will leap 65.7 percent in 2011 to $3.91 billion... April 27, 2011 At the latest financial results briefing, Nintendo announced that it had missed its target of shipping 4 million 3DS handheld consoles by the end of the March 31st 2011 financial year... April 22, 2011 Independent Russian telco, VimpelCom, which offers fixed and mobile services, has completed a $6.6bn merger of its assets with telecoms investment company Wind Telecom... April 20, 2011 ProSiebenSat.1 Group has agreed to sell its TV interests in Belgium and the Netherlands to a consortium of international media companies in a deal valued at €1.2bn... April 20, 2011 Last week's ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on the patent dispute between the satellite operator DISH Network and the DVR-pioneer TiVo gave both parties... April 19, 2011 Verizon has unveiled a content preparation and propagation service, called Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS), which aims to provide content owners and operators the means to... April 19, 2011 Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has signed a new multiyear agreement for video disc replication and distribution with Canada-based Cinram. The two companies share a... April 18, 2011 The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled in favour of pay-TV operator BSkyB in its tax case against the Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC). The ECJ ruled that digital video... April 18, 2011 Three companies have announced new products supporting the Intel and Apple-backed Thunderbolt data transfer interface. They are: Matrox with its MX02 input-output encoding box... April 18, 2011 Disney's Playdom, one of the key operators in the social network gaming space, has launched a standalone portal hosting several of its major browser-based titles... April 18, 2011 Prague-based digital services provider Brickbox Digital Media, which mainly operates in the Central and Eastern European markets, has authored its first Blu-ray 3D (BD3D) Piranha 3D... April 18, 2011 Dutch electronics group Philips will divest its television business into a joint venture with TPV Technology, a Hong Kong based manufacturer of PC and TV monitors. The joint venture... April 15, 2011 Warner has changed its home entertainment distribution model in China, shifting the emphasis away from physical media and towards online delivery. The studio will continue to be... April 15, 2011 UK-based TV games operator PlayJam has made a deal with Korean consumer electronics manufacturer LG to include PlayJam's games portal on all LG connected TVs... April 15, 2011 Propelled by encouraging market developments and increasing audience interest, consumer spending on Blu-ray Discs 3D (BD3D) in 2011 is forecast to rise 533 percent across the four markets... April 14, 2011 Google has acquired Canadian mobile music company Pushlife for an undisclosed amount. Pushlife's mobile music service enables users to purchase and sync music on their handsets... April 14, 2011 On the back of encouraging market developments and increasing audience interest, consumer spending on Blu-ray 3D Disc (BD3D) in 2011 is forecast to rise 533 percent... April 14, 2011 Dutch digital cinema deployment initiative Cinema Digitaal has chosen European digital cinema services and distribution company Arts Alliance Media (AAM) to undertake a... April 13, 2011 Kit Digital, a provider of video solutions, has acquired Ioko for $91.4 million. The deal is split between $74 million in cash and KIT common stock and is expected to close within a few weeks... April 12, 2011 Level 3 Communications, the tier 1 network operator will acquire Global Crossing in a deal worth $3 bn, including an estimated $1.1bn of assumed net debt... April 12, 2011 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has passed a ruling which potentially gives all mobile network operators access to the mobile internet networks of facilities-based providers... April 12, 2011 U.S. online television revenue growth accelerated in 2010, rising by 34.2 percent, up from 31.2 percent in 2009. Total revenue in 2010 amounted to $1.6 billion... April 12, 2011 Recent moves by Starz and Showtime to restrict the content they are providing to Netflix represent maneuvering to gain advantage in upcoming contract negotiations... April 11, 2011 Broadcast-equipment vendor Grass Valley, and middleware and content-security vendor Irdeto, have partnered to develop a multiscreen solution that is aimed at the world of broadcast... April 11, 2011 Dutch telco and broadcast network operator KPN will close its DVB-H based mobile TV broadcast platform on June 1st. The company blames the lack of compatible devices and claims that... April 8, 2011 HMV Group, owner of UK specialist entertainment retailer HMV and book retailer Waterstones has issued its third profits warning since the beginning of 2011. The warning lowers... April 8, 2011 Incumbent telco of Saskatchewan, Sasktel, has announced it will spend $670m during 2011-2017 period to upgrade its broadband network with fibre to the premises (FTTP)... April 8, 2011 A tax break which allows retailers based on the Channel Islands to ship many DVDs and BDs tax free to the UK mainland is to be tightened up. The Low Value Consignment Relief... April 8, 2011 China has failed to relax import restrictions covering foreign books, music, games and movies despite the passing of the 19 March 2011 deadline imposed by the World Trade Organisation... April 8, 2011 Total video unit sales in the UK fell by 17.8% to 46.1m units in the first quarter 2011 according to data released by the British Video Association (BVA). Consumer spending on all physical formats... April 8, 2011 It is being widely reported that YouTube, the world's most popular video service, plans to spend $100m on original content as part of a broader initiative to rejuvenate content on... April 8, 2011 Nintendo Corp.’s strategy of promoting the connectivity and local networking features of its newly released 3DS handheld gaming system in the United States will help drive... April 7, 2011 US children's content company 4 Kids Entertainment has filed for bankruptcy protection to stay a lawsuit from the Japanese owners of the Yu-Gi-Oh property. New York-based 4Kids said... April 7, 2011 After lagging behind DirecTV, Dish Network is determined strengthen its presence in the video-on-demand (VoD) arena by any means necessary. This week has seen two significant announcements... April 6, 2011 U.S. subscription video provider Netflix Inc. is in talks to finance its first original television content, supplying a missing hallmark component offered by rivals in pay-TV territory... April 5, 2011 The German telecoms regulator (BNetzA) has proposed to reduce full local loop unbundling (LLU) access fees from €10.20 to €10.08 per month. The prices will be effective... April 4, 2011 Scientific Atlanta Cisco has been chosen by Indian MSO Gujarat Telelink to provide digital cable set-top boxes across the states of Gujarat, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Jharkhand... April 4, 2011 US games retailer GameStop has acquired Impulse, a digital PC games distribution platform, and games streaming technology specialist Spawn Labs. Financial terms were not disclosed... April 4, 2011 The grouping of smaller independent UK exhibitors, known as the Digital Funding Partnership (DFP), has chosen Belgian digital cinema third-party facilitator XDC to undertake the...
March 31, 2011 IPTV conditional access (CA) vendor Verimatrix is to acquire Comvenient, a German company specialising in smartcard-based CA for the traditional broadcast pay TV market... March 31, 2011 Hollywood movie producer and distributor Weinstein Company will make video games based on owned movie intellectual property ("IP") in partnership with games production... March 31, 2011 Romtelecom, Romania's incumbent telco is to acquire Digital Cable Systems' (DCS) satellite TV operation, AKTA TV. The value of the deal has not been disclosed. Acquisition will be... March 30, 2011 Over three years after launching its digital music store Amazon, the online retail giant, has ventured into digital music locker space with its Cloud Drive and Cloud Player services... March 29, 2011 Private equity company Montagu Equity Partners agreed to pay 1.7bn zlotys (€425m) for Poland's transmission company, TP Emitel, from incumbent telco TP SA group... March 28, 2011 Technicolor has received a binding offer from the Fonds de Consolidation et de Développement des Entreprises (FCDE) for the purchase of its Thomson Video Networks business... March 25, 2011 The update to the smartphone forecasts takes into account the recently announced Nokia-Microsoft strategic partnership and its impact on the different operating systems... March 25, 2011 Online retailer Amazon has launched its own mobile application store in the US, the Amazon Appstore for Android. The store offers more than 4,000 free and paid applications and gives users... March 25, 2011 UK telecoms regulator Ofcom will enforce a reduction in mobile termination rates (MTRs) across national mobile networks in the UK over the next four years. These rates will be over... March 23, 2011 Samsung has launched an online 3D video on demand service in Korea, with Dreamworks being its major content partner.
The service's 3D content, which by the end of the year is set to... March 21, 2011 AT&T has agreed to purchase the USA's fourth largest mobile network from Deutsche Telekom for $39bn. The deal will result in AT&T moving ahead of Verizon Wireless as the largest... March 18, 2011 Norwegian PC and mobile browser provider Opera has launched a browser-based mobile application store for Java, Android, BlackBerry and Symbian devices... March 16, 2011 US subscription video provider Netflix is in talks to finance its first original content - a high-end drama series its producers have pitched to other possible partners... March 16, 2011 Spanish parliament has voted through the much-debated anti-piracy law, known as the Ley Sinde, part of the larger Sustainable Economy Law (SEL)... March 16, 2011 On 28 February 2011, TV product placement became legal in the UK. On the same day, the first major deal recorded featured a Nestle Dolce Gusto coffee machine in the kitchen area... March 16, 2011 ITV had a great 2010 year in terms of broadcast advertising revenues, but the company needs to improve on its monetisation of programmes online... March 15, 2011 The UK's FTA DTH platform Freesat will launch set-tops compliant with the pan-European, hybrid broadcast-broadband (HbbTV) specification. The new set-tops... March 15, 2011 In an age when Internet-based video is available on a variety of mobile platforms, what future is there for traditional television programming and broadcasting... March 14, 2011 The Globally Executable MHP (GEM) middleware specification has been upgraded to support the delivery of over-the-top (OTT) content. GEM v1.3, developed by the DVB Project... March 14, 2011 Finnish mobile games developer Rovio, the company behind the hit Angry Birds raised $42m in a funding round led by Accel Partners and Atomico Ventures... March 14, 2011 PlayStation will add the ability to save games online through a cloud service hosted by the platform owner. Cloud saves are live for all PlayStation Plus subscribers following a firmware update... March 10, 2011 Romania's incumbent telco and second-largest satellite TV provider, Romtelecom, is to buy competing satellite provider, Boom TV. According to local sources... March 10, 2011 Starmax HD, Spain's new satellite TV operator, says it will launch services by end March, pushing an innovative business model in an attempt to kick-start the recalcitrant Spanish pay TV market... March 10, 2011 Analogue terrestrial television was switched off in the Ile de France region - which includes Paris - on 7 March 2011. There were no major disruptions. Ten of the 24 mainland regions of France... March 10, 2011 Hard disk drive (HDD) manufacturer Western Digital (WD) has entered into a definite agreement to acquire Hitachi Global Storage (HGS). The deal is worth $4.3bn of which WD will... March 9, 2011 Kodak has received approval of a variance from the US Food and Drug Administration for its proposed laser technology for cinema projectors, required because the use of lasers... March 9, 2011 Following a preliminary own-initiative investigation by the European Commission's competition authorities, Hollywood studios and Europe's third-party integrators have amended provisions... March 8, 2011 Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and UAE have been added to mobile intelligence. The new forecasts include subscriptions, revenues and 3G forecasts by operator as well as... March 8, 2011 Warner Bros. Digital Distribution has released two movies, including extras, as apps via the iTunes App Store, bypassing Apple's own iTunes Movie Store. The Dark Knight and Inception are... March 7, 2011 Apple Inc. has updated its App Store developer guidelines and will offer in-app, auto-renewable subscription billing for content-based applications. Previously, payment for App Store apps... March 7, 2011 IHS Screen Digest has revised its forecasts for the US physical video retail and rental markets in light of the continued stronger-than-expected performance of the DVD format in 2010... March 4, 2011 Troubled by the economy and stiff competition from the telcos and satellite TV providers, Comcast continues to place a great emphasis on growing its programming business... March 4, 2011 UK incumbent telco BT has launched a new wireless 802.11n ADSL2+ modem - the BT Home Hub 3, supplied by hardware vendors Sagem and Huawei. The device is being bundled free to... March 4, 2011 Satoru Iwata, President and CEO of Nintendo, presented a keynote at the Games Developers' Conference and, alongside President of Nintendo of America, Reggie Fils-Aimé... March 4, 2011 HMV Group, parent company of UK specialist entertainment retailer HMV, has issued a second 2011 profits warning. The latest comes as the retail group begins talks with banks to... March 4, 2011 IHS Screen Digest has revised its Japanese video rental figures in the light of extensive feedback from industry sources.
The revisions were initiated by feedback early in 2011 querying... March 4, 2011 Box office revenue generated by three dimensional (3-D) movies in North America nearly doubled in 2010, as more screens were upgraded to 3-D capability and studios delivered... March 3, 2011 Apple has updated its App Store developer guidelines and will offer in-app, auto-renewable subscription billing for content-based applications. Previously, payment for App Store apps had been... March 3, 2011 The UK government has decided not to refer News Corporation's offer to buy 61 per cent of BSkyB that it does not already own to the Competition Commission... March 2, 2011 US DTH operator DirecTV has launched a remote control application for the iOS operating system. Currently optimized for the iPad's screen size, aspect ratio and resolution... March 2, 2011 Amazon has launched its Prime Instant Video service, which allows Amazon Prime members to stream more than 5,000 movies and episodes of TV shows at no additional cost... March 2, 2011 IHS Screen Digest analysis of the latest results from the three largest European video markets - UK, Germany and France - indicate that overall spending on packaged video in Europe... March 2, 2011 IHS Screen Digest is implementing some changes in our coverage of games publishers. We are introducing company level quarterly revenue tracking and shortly forecasting for... March 1, 2011 Shochiku and Warner Mycal, leading Japanese cinema circuits, have signed up to digital conversion with the Virtual Print Fee (VPF) programme offered by GDC, Asian server manufacturer... March 1, 2011 Vodafone Iceland has selected UK-based set-top box manufacturer Amino for the next stage of its IPTV service rollout. The deal will see Vodafone Iceland deploy both... February 28, 2011 German online games operator Bigpoint has signed a deal with EA to distribute the latter's content to its customer base which, on a LTD basis, is just under 180m registrations... February 28, 2011 Deutsche Telekom is to launch a satellite TV service, Entertain Sat, to complement its existing IPTV platform, Entertain. The satellite service has been developed in co-operation with... February 28, 2011 With help from heavy marketing investment, differentiated technology and a willing user base, Microsoft Corp. surpassed its Kinect sales expectations for 2010 and also outperformed its... February 26, 2011 Facebook has announced several changes to its virtual currency system, Facebook Credits. The deadline for the obligatory adoption of Credits has been declared as July 1... February 22, 2011 The Italian telecoms regulator, Agcom, has given incumbent operator Telecom Italia the green light to launch its 100Mbit/s residential fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) services on the grounds... February 18, 2011 Nokia and Microsoft jointly announced Windows Phone would become the "principal smartphone strategy" for Nokia. As part of the partnership, Nokia will contribute resources... February 18, 2011 Dish TV, India's largest pay satellite operator, has expanded its HD channel lineup, adding 30 new channels. This comes soon after Dish acquired additional satellite transponders... February 17, 2011 Games publisher Ubisoft reported revenues in C4Q 2010 of €600m, well ahead of guidance of €520m. Ubisoft also beat IHS Screen Digest's forecast of €579m by a small margin... February 17, 2011 At a special PlayStation event held in Japan at the end of January, Sony Computer Entertainment Japan announced plans for its next-generation handheld games and multimedia device... February 17, 2011 At a special PlayStation event held in Japan at the end of January, Sony Computer Entertainment Japan announced plans for its next-generation handheld gaming and multimedia device... February 16, 2011 M7 Group, owner of four satellite pay TV platforms covering the Benelux and Austrian markets, has acquired from media group GES a Czech-Slovak satellite TV player, CS Link... February 16, 2011 Television viewing reached a new all-time high in 2010 in the UK according to Thinkbox' analysis of the latest BARB data. Thinkbox is the UK's television marketing body... February 15, 2011 Despite the flood of so-called “iPhone killers” entering the market in 2010, Apple Inc. largely maintained its dominance of the global mobile application store market for the year... February 14, 2011 Reflecting consumers’ increasing preference for renting movies rather than owning them, U.S. movie Internet video on demand (iVOD) revenue will rise to exceed that of electronic sell-through... February 14, 2011 Polish telecommunications company Polish Telecom is to sell its transmission subsidiary TP Emitel. TP Emitel owns the digital and analogue terrestrial infrastructure in Poland... February 14, 2011 Year-long negotiations over broadcast signal licensing fees between Fox Network and the Fox Affiliate Board (a representative body of independent stations affiliated with the Fox Network... February 14, 2011 While the new digital 3D has been taking theaters by storm, the impact of 3D on home video in the last few years has been mostly negative. Studios refer to the '3D effect'... February 14, 2011 Satellite operator Arqiva has signed up mid-sized UK cinema circuit Reel Cinemas to its digital cinema satellite delivery system, adding another UK exhibitor to its network... February 12, 2011 Pandora, the personalised internet radio provider, has applied to the US Securities Exchange Commission for an initial public offering (IPO) with a valuation of $100m... February 11, 2011 We7, the ad-funded online music service, has signed its first ISP deal with Hull-based Karoo to launch Karoo music, allowing users to stream music and buy songs and albums as MP3 downloads... February 11, 2011 Leading Western mobile games publishers EA Mobile and Gameloft both posted record revenues in Q4 2010. EA Mobile saw its Q4 revenues rise to $59m... February 11, 2011 IHS Screen Digest has updated its US dollar and euro exchange rate tables with data for 2010. Our dollar exchange rates for key currencies are based on daily noon buying rate... February 11, 2011 The world's largest third party games publisher reported C4Q revenues of $2.6b, marginally up on last year's $2.5b. Highlights from the numbers were... February 11, 2011 Credit card payment network Visa is to acquire payment-solution aggregator PlaySpan, for $190m. Further earnout bonuses were referenced as a potential part of the deal... February 11, 2011 AOL Europe has acquired the online video advertising network GoViral for a total of $96.7m. The deal is set to be carried out in two stages: in additional to the upfront payment of... February 10, 2011 Deutsche Telekom and Sky Deutschland are close to agreement which would see them jointly launch a B2B wholesale TV product targeting the level 4 German cable market... February 9, 2011 Starting March 2011, pay DTT operator Boxer is removing additional fees for multiroom services to its subscribers in Denmark. Customers taking the multiroom option will now... February 9, 2011 The giant-screen company IMAX recorded $546 million in gross box office from proprietary digital re-mastered (DMR) titles in 2010, effectively doubling this sector of its business from $271 million... February 8, 2011 IHS Screen Digest research has been finalized for the total global digital screens and 3-D screens in 2010 and has been updated in terms of forecasted growth through 2015... February 8, 2011 Sony has launched its video streaming service, Video on Demand powered by Qriocity, in Canada. The launch follows a January 2011 launch in Japan. The VOD service debuted in the U.S... February 7, 2011 Despite intensified competition from fierce rivals including Microsoft Corp. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Apple Inc.’s iTunes store in 2010 managed to hold onto its dominance in the U.S. market... February 4, 2011 The English Premier League is facing the possibility of a legal setback in its attempt to block pubs in the UK from showing live transmissions of its football matches from broadcasters outside the UK... February 3, 2011 UK fixed line and pay-TV operator Sky has acquired WiFi network provider The Cloud. The deal includes over 5,000 public hotspots across the UK and is valued at under £50m... February 3, 2011 Pan-regional exhibition circuit Cinema City International (CCI) has acquired the assets of leading multiplex group Palace Cinemas in Central Europe comprising total of 144 screens... February 3, 2011 Japanese box office hit 220.7bn Yen ($2.7bn) in 2010, according to data from the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (EIREN). This equates to a 7.1 per cent rise on 2009... February 2, 2011 Provider of video solutions Kit Digital has acquired three companies for a total cost of $77.2m. Companies acquired include: Kewego, bought for $26.7m... February 1, 2011 At a special PlayStation event held in Japan at the end of January, Sony Computer Entertainment Japan announced plans for its next generation handheld games and multimedia device... February 1, 2011 Swedish network operator Teracom has invested in headend equipment for the continued roll-out of DVB-T2 terrestrial multiplexes. The deal sees Thomson Video Networks... January 28, 2011 Two of the largest cable operators in the US - Charter and Cablevision - have announced steps to move away from conventional DVRs in an attempt to meet consumers' changing preferences... January 28, 2011 Showcase Cinemas, the fourth largest UK cinema circuit owned by international exhibition group National Amusements (NA), has now embarked on process of upgrading its entire 276 screen... January 28, 2011 Bright House Networks, the nation's sixth largest cable operator, has reached agreement with Sinclair Broadcasting group to continue to retransmit five local TV stations... January 27, 2011 US regional incumbent telco TDS will expand its VDSL footprint across 13 states by the end of Q1 2011, in addition to the 7 states announced at year-end 2010... January 27, 2011 BSkyB is to launch a new Sky Anywhere service later this year allowing customers to access TV and on-demand content outside the home on a variety of mobile devices... January 27, 2011 Most companies are aware of the rapidly changing state of games distribution, enabled and driven on by the penetration of broadband access technologies and resultant uptake... January 26, 2011 Comcast and NBC Universal received regulatory clearance to merge their operations on January 18. The combined company will become one of the world's largest media conglomerates... January 26, 2011 Giant screen company, Imax, recorded $546m in gross box office from DMR (proprietary digital re-mastered) titles in 2010, effectively doubling this sector of its business from $271m in 2009... January 26, 2011 IHS Screen Digest has finalised its d-cinema screen numbers for total global d-screens and 3D screens, although some numbers do remain provisional for the time being... January 26, 2011 Chinese box office rose by 64 per cent in 2010, surpassing 10bn yuan for the first time. The full total for the year reached 10.2bn yuan ($1.55bn), which makes China one of the world's largest... January 25, 2011 Disney Interactive Studios, part of the wider Disney Interactive Media Group, is reducing headcount across a number of studios in a bid to position itself in order to exploit growing opportunities... January 24, 2011 The Hollywood major has closed its local operating company in Italy and signed a five year partnership with Universal. Under the deal, Universal will take responsibility for the distribution... January 24, 2011 US online retailer Amazon has acquired the remaining stake in UK-based European online video subscription market leader LoveFilm, subject to regulatory approval... January 24, 2011 South Africa has confirmed it will adopt the DVB-T2 modulation standard for digital terrestrial television (DTT). This follows months of uncertainty in which the competing ISDB-Tb... January 20, 2011 Intel has selected to back the HomeGrid (G.hn) standard for home networking. This follows Intel's withdrawal from the board of the competing Homeplug standard... January 20, 2011 Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader is available in cinemas following the conversion of all 1500 shots from 2D to 3D. The decision to convert to 3D was made post-shoot... January 20, 2011 UK-based music identifying service has updated its apps for Android and iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) devices to support track playback via Spotify (the PC and mobile on-demand... January 20, 2011 US-based cross-platform music on demand service Mog has signed a deal with Verizon Wireless that will see a Mog application preinstalled on all its 4G Android phones... January 20, 2011 Nokia has closed its struggling Ovi Music Unlimited service in 33 of the 38 countries in which it launched. Launched as Comes With Music in 2008, the service failed to attract widespread... January 20, 2011 US satellite operator DirecTV and Samsung Electronics have partnered to produce the first RVU-compatible TVs. The technology, available in select Samsung TVs from March 2011... January 19, 2011 Danish independent film company Zentropa has raised Dkr 5.5m ($0.5m) in fines from German consumers accused of illegally downloading its film Antichrist... January 19, 2011 UK specialist entertainment retailer HMV is to close 60 stores in 2011. HMV Group, which also owns book retailer Waterstone's, issued a profits warning citing poor December trading resulting from... January 19, 2011 The Spanish parliament, the Cortes, has rejected anti-piracy provisions included in the Sustainable Economy Law, known as the Sinde Law. Failure to pass the extension to the exiting anti-piracy... January 19, 2011 France Telecom is to sell a 50 per cent stake in its Orange Cinéma Séries (OCS) channel bouquet to Canal Plus, until now its major competitor in French pay TV... January 19, 2011 Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is to release the Star Wars films on Blu-ray Disc (BD) 20 September 2011. The films will be released as three boxsets... January 18, 2011 The forthcoming release of the widely anticipated video game Portal 2 for PC and HD consoles has also resulted in broad collaboration between Valve and PlayStation... January 18, 2011 Despite mounting competitive challenges from global and regional rivals, Google Inc. in 2010 expanded its leadership in the worldwide search advertising market... January 17, 2011 Nintendo has confirmed it will ship 4m units of new handheld console 3DS by March 31, 2010. The handheld is due to launch in Japan at the end of February and in Europe and North America... January 14, 2011 Leading US mobile operator Verizon will start carrying the Apple iPhone 4 from February 2011. The agreement marks the end of AT&T's exclusive distribution of the handset... January 14, 2011 Intel Corporation and NVIDIA, a graphics processing unit (GPU) and chipset technology company, have agreed a 6 year cross-licensing deal. The agreement will see Intel receive... January 14, 2011 Box office in Hong Kong jumped by an extraordinary percentage, 31 per cent, in 2010 after a year driven by 3D. Gross box office equalled HK$1.54bn ($198.1m) up from... January 13, 2011 IHS Screen Digest's TV Technology team has updated its forecast methodology for HDTV household penetration worldwide, improving the robustness of both its forecasts and... January 13, 2011 IHS Screen Digest has extended the forecasts in its Video Intelligence for all territories and regions through to 2015. The 2015 forecasts are an extension of the existing IHS... January 12, 2011 Content guide and copy protection specialist Rovi Corporation will pay $720m in cash and stock to buy Sonic Solutions, a digital video processing and distribution provider... January 11, 2011 Dahlia TV, one of the two digital terrestrial pay-TV services in Italy, has gone into liquidation. According to a statement by Telecom Italia Media (TIM), which owns a 10 per cent stake in Dahlia TV... January 10, 2011 Facebook, the social network, generated total revenues of $1.2bn, with a net income of $355m in the first nine months of 2010, according to internal documents distributed by... January 10, 2011 Private equity firm Francisco Partners has completed its acquisition of Grass Valley Broadcast. The acquisition was completed on 31 December 2010 and follows the $100m binding... January 10, 2011 In the first major cable transaction of 2011, Norwegian telecoms and pay TV major Telenor has agreed to sell its Danish cable assets to rival Stofa... January 8, 2011 Another year, another round of heated negotiations between network owners and service providers. This past year saw numerous such battles for retransmission/carriage fee renewals... January 7, 2011 TV viewing has reached an all-time high in 2010 in France, with multichannel reaching almost a third of total viewing at the expense of national channels... January 7, 2011 French audience measurement company Médiamétrie is introducing timeshifted TV viewing measurement thanks to watermarking and audiometer technology... January 7, 2011 US-based online retailer Amazon has opened its mobile application store to submissions from developers. The Amazon "Appstore" is due to launch in the US during 2011... January 5, 2011 Despite years of big growth and even bigger hype, the network-delivered rental and sale of videos continued to represent only a small portion of the U.S. home video entertainment market in 2010... January 4, 2011 Middle-Eastern pay-TV operator Orbit Showtime Network (OSN) is adding five key Arabic-language entertainment channels from media group ART to its line-up... January 4, 2011 French telco Free Telecom has responded to the VAT hike on triple-play services by unbundling its TV service. From February 2011, Free Telecom will offer its basic TV package... January 4, 2011 From March 2011, paid-for placement and references for products and trademarks will be permitted in television programmes produced and broadcast in the UK... December 23, 2010 Pay TV service provider Sezmi has withdrawn its premium tier Sezmi Select Plus service, offering access to cable channels redistributed via digital broadcast spectrum leased from local TV... December 22, 2010 Paramount Digital Entertainment has announced it will be releasing ten feature-length films from its catalog to be distributed in the form of applications (apps) designed to play on smart phones... December 22, 2010 An unguarded comment by UK Business Secretary Vince Cable has seen the politician stripped of powers to regulate media and telecoms and could ultimately boost the chances of approval... December 21, 2010 The European Commission has cleared News Corporation's proposed full takeover of British Sky Broadcasting without any conditions. The UK government must now decide whether the deal... December 21, 2010 NCR and Warner signed a new distribution agreement in December 2010 making new-release theatrical titles from Warner available via Blockbuster Express-branded video rental kiosks following a 28-day window. December 20, 2010 As Qualcomm looks at exit opportunities for its MediaFLO USA mobile TV subsidiary, a joint venture by several US broadcasters called the Mobile Content Venture (MCV)... December 20, 2010 DeNA, owner of leading Japanese games focused mobile social network Mobage Town, will launch a global platform for mobile social games in April 2011. DeNA hopes the new platform will expand... December 18, 2010 Comcast has unveiled an app called Play Now which allows subscribers to its Xfinity TV triple-play service to stream full episodes from premium channels to the iPad... December 17, 2010 French IPTV operator Free will ship its new set-top box (STB) and gateway in January 2011. Dubbed the Freebox Player, it's the first pay-TV STB to contain the Intel Atom CE4100 processor... December 16, 2010 Fox's Avatar was released on 3D Blu-ray Disc (3D BD) in the US on 1 December 2010 as part of an exclusive bundling deal with Panasonic, as expected by IHS Screen Digest... December 16, 2010 Warner Home Video is to withdraw three of its classic movie titles from sale on DVD on 31 December 2010, in anticipation of their respective 60th, 50th and 45th anniversaries in 2012... December 16, 2010 Film producer Codex Pictures has released a collector's edition boxset of its new film, Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie, 29 November 2010, ahead of its limited 2011 theatrical run... December 15, 2010 Popular 24-hour Spanish free news channel CNN+ is to close 31st December 2010 after 11 years of broadcasting in the country leaving a big gap in the free to air portfolios of Turner Broadcasting... December 14, 2010 Electronic Arts has launched a free Pogo games app for Apple's iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad) devices. Featuring five games drawn from its Pogo casual online games service... December 14, 2010 UK broadcasters Channel 4 and ITV have both launched content via free-to-view catch-up services for the Sony Playstation 3 (PS3) game console... December 14, 2010 CityVille, Zynga's latest social network game released for Facebook, has achieved 26 million MAUs (monthly active users) 12 days after its launch... December 14, 2010 Online DVD rental firm LoveFilm has announced the beta launch of its online movie service in Germany. The launch of the streaming LoveFilm player follows the full launch of... December 14, 2010 French broadcasting regulator the CNC has awarded a licence to operate a pay TV service on digital terrestrial to Cfoot, a football channel backed by the French football league (LFP). December 14, 2010 Czech transmission company, Ceske Radiokomunikace (CR) has agreed to buy digital terrestrial television (DTT) operator Czech Digital Group, giving it control of two of the country's four DTT multiplexes. December 13, 2010 Amazon has started a game trade-in service at its UK site, having trialled a similar service in the US since March 2009. Platforms covered include PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PS2, DS and PSP... December 10, 2010 Google launched the latest iteration of its Android mobile operating system (OS) and unveiled the second Google branded smartphone, the Nexus S... December 10, 2010 The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) is to make its debut in January 2011 in 75 million homes, replacing Discovery Health Network. But come January 1... December 10, 2010 Ukraine's National Broadcasting Council has awarded a licence to operate digital terrestrial services in the country. The winning bidder, Zeonbud, will build the DTT networks... December 9, 2010 EA revealed sales performance details for key digital titles and reaffirmed its' strategy for digital gaming at investor events hosted by Credit Suisse and UBS in the last month...
December 9, 2010 Dutch plan for digitising a majority of nation's cinema screens has received final approval from government. The project brings together a broad mix of trade bodies, government... December 9, 2010 Indian d-cinema deployment outfit Scrabble Entertainment is to extend its rollout plan to Middle East. With backing from five US studios (Fox, Disney, Paramount, Universal, and Warner)... December 8, 2010 German cable company Kabel BW has become the first cable operator in the market to provide true video-on-demand (VoD) services delivered via its cable network to the set-top box... December 8, 2010 France Telecom-owned mobile operator Orange has launched a new initiative designed to encourage developers to provide content for its Orange App Shop mobile application stores. December 8, 2010 Technicolor is to shut its 35mm release printing plant in Los Angeles due to the rise of digital cinema and loss of a significant volume contract to rival Deluxe... December 7, 2010 Google have acquired US-based DRM and security firm Widevine for an undisclosed sum. Widevine supply cardless CA and DRM both to pay TV operators and over-the-top service... December 7, 2010 Liberty Global has agreed to buy Poland's fourth largest cable TV player, Aster, from private equity company Mid Europa Partners (MEP). The agreed purchase price of... December 7, 2010 After announcing in May 2010 its intent to deploy HD DVR set-tops with Tivo middleware, UK MSO Virgin Media has begun shipping the STBs. The Cisco-built CT8685 boxes are... December 6, 2010 The French media regulator, CSA, has opened a tender for a push video-on-demand (VOD) service to be delivered over digital terrestrial television (DTT)... December 6, 2010 European digital cinema services company Arts Alliance Media (AAM) has agreed long term commitments with French independent distributors MK2 Distribution and DistriB Films to... December 3, 2010 USA-based social network gaming operator Zynga has acquired development studio Newtoy for an undisclosed amount. Newtoy's founders were the creators of... December 3, 2010 The European Commission has launched an antitrust investigation against Google, following allegations that it may have been abusing its dominant position in the online search market... December 2, 2010 The Romanian government wants to sell its remaining 45.66 per cent stake in Romtelecom, the incumbent telco which is also a leading player in pay TV... December 2, 2010 Satellite provider DISH Network has defied a federal arbitration ruling in its carriage fee dispute with Comcast and dropped the Comcast Sports Network California from its line-up... December 2, 2010 IHS Screen Digest has revised its 2010 year end forecasts for the UK based on year-to-date data supplied by the British video Association (BVA). We have also made some adjustments to... December 1, 2010 Pan European facilitator XDC has signed its first VPF deployment deal in the UK with independent circuit Reel Cinemas. Under terms of the deal... December 1, 2010 French mobile games publisher Gameloft grew ten per cent year-on-year in Q3 2010, posting revenues of $44.8m making it the only one of the traditional "big three" ... December 1, 2010 Cequel III Communications, owner of Suddenlink, the seventh largest cable operator in the US with over 1.3m subscribers, has agreed with News Press & Gazette to acquire its NPG Cable for $350m. November 30, 2010 Sony has announced the launch of its movie streaming service, Video on Demand Powered by Qriocity, for connected TVs and Blu-ray disc (BD) players in the 'EU Big Five'(Germany, France, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom). November 30, 2010 Pan-European co-production fund Eurimages has launched a cinema digitisation programme for member countries that sit outside MEDIA Programme. November 30, 2010 Algorithmic (natural) search results and paid search results of Yahoo sites in US and Canada are now powered by Bing, the search engine technology of Microsoft, and sold through... November 29, 2010 The consolidation of cable TV platforms in Central and Eastern Europe has continued, with mergers recently being agreed in several countries in the region. November 26, 2010 3D hardware featured strongly in many manufacturers' and retailers' 'Black Friday' promotions, marking the beginning of the Christmas shopping season in the US... November 26, 2010 First-half trends from several European markets, as well as Google results, confirmed that internet advertising is on tracks to full recovery in 2010... November 26, 2010 Twentieth Century-Fox's Avatar was released on 3D Blu-ray Disc (3D BD) in key international territories on 1 November 2010 as part of an exclusive bundling deal with Panasonic... November 24, 2010 The Bulgarian government has pushed analogue switch off back two years to 2015 to allow more time to finance upgrades to the transmission network, launch an... November 23, 2010 Prisa has continued its strategy of making premium channel Canal Plus available on a wide range of platforms by signing a deal with Ono, the country's largest cable operator... November 23, 2010 Time Warner Cable (TWC) has announced its 'TV Essentials' package, a stripped-down version of expanded basic designed to offer cost-conscious consumers a slightly more robust television offering than the basic tier. November 23, 2010 The nascent video-streamed games-on-demand ("VSGoD") sector has seen a number of important developments in the past month. Screen Digest recently initiated coverage of... November 23, 2010 Canal Plus will complete its transition to digital terrestrial when the analogue signal serving the Ile de France region is switched off tomorrow. November 19, 2010 Dish Network is to offer a GoogleTV service to its subscribers. Subscribers to the GoogleTV service will be able to search within the GoogleTV interface for content on their digital video... November 19, 2010 US subscription TV posted a net subscriber loss in Q3 2010, with the long-term decline in cable continuing. According to our estimates, the whole industry lost 70,000 subscriptions... November 19, 2010 Time Warner has reaffirmed its commitment to launch a premium video-on-demand (VoD) service in Q2 2011. Premium video-on-demand, known also as 'home-theater on-demand'... November 18, 2010 Indicating continuing recovery for the UK television advertising market, ITV and BSkyB reported double-digit growth in revenues in Q3... November 18, 2010 Motorola Mobility, which manufactures mobile phones and set-top boxes, has invested in Blackarrow via Motorola Ventures - it's strategic funding division... November 17, 2010 Poland's largest satellite TV operator, Cyfrowy Polsat, has acquired free-to-air broadcaster Telewizja Polsat, consolidating the interests held in the two companies by businessman Zygmunt Soloz-Zak. November 17, 2010 UK's third largest circuit, Vue Entertainment, has agreed to be acquired by private equity group Doughty Hanson for £450m ($630m)... November 11, 2010 The two leading commercial broadcasters TF1 and M6 have reported excellent growth in Q3 but warned that the advertising recovery is now slowing down quickly... November 10, 2010 Swiss Internet service provider Green.ch has launched a new IPTV service, GreenTV. The service allows viewers to watch and record TV programmes and pause live TV and provides a... November 10, 2010 TV Technology has launched data covering terrestrial television infrastructure in 18 territories. Both analogue and digital networks are covered. The major data points include transmitter and repeater counts by multiplex, encoding streams and coverage. November 10, 2010 Spanish free-to-air broadcasters Telecinco and Antena 3 have continued a double-digit recovery in Q3 2010. Telecinco increased total net revenues by 44.9 per cent to €161m... November 9, 2010 German set-top box manufacturer Technisat will make all new receivers for the French market compatible with the Canal+ "Canal Ready" labelling scheme... November 8, 2010 British set-top box (STB) vendor Pace has bought Belfast-based TV technology company Latens. Pace will pay £28.75m for the company specialising in software conditional access... November 5, 2010 Channel 4 has officially launched the Film4 on Demand online streaming movie service powered by FilmFlex, the Disney-Sony joint venture. The transactional service will offer new release... November 4, 2010 Electronic Arts has acquired leading publisher of iOS games Chillingo for $29m. Chillingo is best known for publishing the iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad) version of Rovio's hit... November 4, 2010 News Corp's bid to take full control of BSkyB is to be investigated by regulators in the UK and the European Commission. The department for business, innovation and skills... November 4, 2010 Disney's ESPN has launched a TV Everywhere service with Time Warner Cable (TWC) and Bright House Network cable systems. The deal allows TWC, and Bright House... November 3, 2010 ProSiebenSat.1 has countinued to exceed market expectations in the third quarter, posting a 12 per cent year-on-year increase in consolidated revenues to €627m... November 1, 2010 Baring Vostok Capital Partners (BVCP) has agreed to buy a 10 per cent stake in Russia's fourth largest cable TV player, ER-Telecom, for $80m. Owned by Perm Financial and Industrial Group... October 29, 2010 UK cable operator Virgin Media continues to rely on supremacy in the broadband speed arms race to bolster its position in the UK pushing ahead this week with launch of a 100Mbit/s... October 29, 2010 The National Football League (NFL) has announced a content partnership with Break.com. The online video site has launched an NFL.com branded channel, featuring content... October 25, 2010 There have been a number of developments on both sides of the Atlantic in regards to over-the-top video streaming services on games consoles and subscription streaming services... October 25, 2010 Roku ventured beyond its online-only strategy October 14th, by launching its connected set-top box (STB) devices via third party retail outlets, in partnership with... October 25, 2010 Deluxe Digital Cinema, a subsidiary of global cinema services company Deluxe Entertainment Services, is partnering Echostar Satellite Services, a subsidiary of Echostar... October 25, 2010 The VAT rate applicable to French triple-play services is to be set at 19.6 per cent, following a decision by the French National Assembly. Previously, components of triple-play services were... October 25, 2010 European Commission's MEDIA Programme has published a document outlining the opportunities and challenges for European cinema in the digital era... October 22, 2010 Microsoft unveiled launch devices and set launch dates for the starting lineup of its new Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system (OS). Microsoft claims over 60 mobile operators in 30 countries... October 22, 2010 BSkyB is now certain to pass its long-held target of hitting 10m customers by end 2010 after adding 96,000 new subscribers in calendar third-quarter to reach 9.956m homes... October 22, 2010 Samsung will open up the development of applications for its connected TV devices. The Software Development Kit (SDK) will be available online for developers to produce apps... October 22, 2010 Switzerland-based ADB has become the latest set-top manufacturer to buy into the gateway market, acquiring Pirelli Broadband Solutions, the set-top boxes and routers business... October 20, 2010 Recent announcements regarding the 2D-to-3D conversion of one of the biggest individual box office hits and two of the most lucrative film franchises of all time suggest that Hollywood is... October 20, 2010 Following extensive co-operation between Screen Digest's Video and TV Technology teams. Screen Digest has modelled the split between the various Blu-ray Disc (BD) player profiles that have formed part of the official BD specification to date October 20, 2010 Polish incumbent telco TP SA has signed a deal with local media group TVN to bundle its broadband and voice services with TV content from TVN...
October 20, 2010 Screen Digest has updated its DVD and Blu-ray Disc (BD) rental forecasts for Brazil on the basis of year-to-end July shipment data from the UBV and feedback from industry sources. October 20, 2010 Screen Digest has updated DVD and Blu-ray Disc (BD) retail (sell though) forecasts for Brazil on the basis of January-to-July shipment data from the Brazilian video association... October 19, 2010 Warner Bros has cancelled release of the penultimate Harry Potter (HP) title in 3D, citing a lack of time to properly convert the movie into 3D, for its worldwide theatrical release... October 15, 2010 BSkyB launched Europe's first dedicated 3D channel in UK on 1 October 2010. Sky 3D is available at no extra cost to Sky HD customers subscribing to its top-tier package. October 15, 2010 Children's TV in the UK is set to receive a further boost when Disney launches an HD simulcast of its Disney XD channel. The 'boy-focussed, girl-inclusive' channel targetting... October 15, 2010 Major US exhibitor, Marcus Theatres, has agreed to install Technicolor's film-based 3D solution in 15 screens at select theatres in North America... October 14, 2010 Irish government has made money available to arthouse cinema operators for the second time to enable the purchase of digital cinema equipment... October 14, 2010 Norway's cinema and video agency Film & Kino has managed a European first and agreed a deal for a contribution to digital transition with all local to distributors for the industry-wide digital roll-out. October 13, 2010 Croatia's DTT platform has reached a key milestone with the country's national channels ending analogue broadcasts following switch-over in the Zagreb area... October 13, 2010 Online music book-club subscription service eMusic has licensed Universal Music Group (UMG) catalogue in a US-only deal. The agreement brings the eMusic catalogue available in the territory to 10m tracks. October 13, 2010 UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has published its review of the wholesale local access market, which outlines its regulatory strategy for ensuring competition and fostering investment... October 13, 2010 Film and sport company Constantin Medien has launched a pay version of its Sport1 channel, creating further competition for the Sky Deutschland platform. Called Sport1 plus... October 12, 2010 Mobile tech company Qualcomm has put an end to its US mobile TV direct-to-consumer (D2C) service offering called FLO TV. FLO TV is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm... October 12, 2010 Toshiba is to launch two autostereoscopic (glasses-free) 3D TVs in Japan in December 2010. A 12-inch model will retail for ¥120,000 ($1,450) and a 20-inch version for ¥240,000 ($2,920)... October 12, 2010 DeNA, owner of leading Japanese games-centric mobile social network Moba-ge-town, has acquired US iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad) games developer ngmoco, in a deal worth $400m... October 11, 2010 News that Sony's remake of The Karate Kid, which hit retail shelves on October 5, won't be available from Netflix until November 2 suggests the studio is moving toward... October 8, 2010 Dutch cable operators Caiway and Rekam are to become the first in the Netherlands to end analogue cable service when they switch to digital-only on the 10th of October 2010.... October 8, 2010 Spanish commercial broadcasters Antena 3 and La Sexta have revived merger talks after initial negotiations which started in December 2009 had ended unsuccessfully in February 2010. October 8, 2010 ITV has signed a three-year deal with Red Bee Media to consolidate its aggregation of digital content across platforms including ITV Broadcasting, Amazon, BT Vision, iTunes... October 8, 2010 The UK online advertising market has grown by 10 per cent on a like-for-like basis in H1 2010 to £1,968m, according to IAB UK. It outperformed the overall advertising market recovery... October 8, 2010 Fox's attempt to extend the shelf life of its global blockbuster Avatar is set to continue with the release of the 'collector's edition' BD and DVD in November 2010... October 8, 2010 Blockbuster video rental chains in the UK and Australia have sought to distance themselves from their US parent's September 2010 Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing... October 8, 2010 Tele2 has completed its acquisition of BBNed, Telecom Italia's fixed voice and broadband business in the Netherlands, for €50m. The deal includes BBNed's retail... October 8, 2010 NCR signed its first direct studio supply deal, with Universal, October 6 - inking an agreement that includes a 28-day holdback window on most of that studio's titles but allows... October 7, 2010 Microsoft has released a mobile spin-off of its forthcoming Xbox 360 title Fable 3, for Android and iPhone, with a Windows 7 iteration arriving in December... October 7, 2010 Google has given developers for its Android mobile operating system a boost by increasing the number of countries from which users can access paid content on its Android Market... October 7, 2010 Motorola is launching the Droid Pro, a portrait QWERTY keyboard smartphone whose form factor has been popularised by BlackBerry handsets. The particularity of the Droid Pro is... October 7, 2010 Google has announced content partners for the official US launch of "GoogleTV" its Android platform for connected living room devices (an international launch has been confirmed for 2011). October 6, 2010 Viacom's MTV Deutschland is to become a pay-only channel in Germany from next year, dropping its free-to-air service in favour of a place in the thematic packages on digital cable, satellite and broadband platforms. October 6, 2010 Florida-based Global Axcess, which has an established business providing banks with automated teller machines, is expanding into the video rental kiosk business via its Instaflix brand... October 5, 2010 France Telecom backed Polish transmission company TP Emitel has launched a second DTT multiplex in four regions of Poland: Warsaw, Poznan, Zielona Gora, and Zagan... October 1, 2010 The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) in the US has called on TV manufacturers to support a universal standard for active shutter 3D glasses to minimise consumer confusion over the new technology and boost take-up. October 1, 2010 This week Nintendo announced new details for the launch of the 3DS handheld. It will be released in February 2011 in Japan and follow shortly after in March in the Western World... October 1, 2010 BSkyB is launching a new channel called Sky Atlantic to showcase HBO programming as well as UK-originated content. The channel, which will be available in HD as well as SD... September 28, 2010 In the next two months customers from Dish Network and Cablevision could find that they have lost access to some of News Corp's television content if the companies have not... September 27, 2010 An anti-piracy committee set up by the Indian central government has recommended lowering the price of legitimate DVDs and the closure of the theatrical-to-DVD window to combat video piracy in the region. September 27, 2010 Viacom is ramping up its HD offering in Europe with the launch of Nickelodeon HD and the rollout of MTVHD to further countries. Nickelodeon HD will be launched first on the BSkyB satellite platform in the UK from October 5. September 27, 2010 UK supermarket Tesco has released its first exclusive DVD title as part of a multi-million pound partnership with film production company Amber Entertainment... September 24, 2010 Universal Pictures International and Paramount Home Entertainment have signed a five-year distribution partnership in Spain. Commencing January 2011, Paramount Spain will handle... September 24, 2010 Just short of 25 years after the late-October 1985 opening of its first store in Dallas - 25 years filled with vociferous doubt by detractors on Wall Street as to its future... September 24, 2010 French film agency CNC has launched a plan to assist smaller French cinemas to convert to digital. In June 2010 a law was voted by the National Assembly and this text has been voted... September 24, 2010 Australian and New Zealand market for digital cinema has taken a major step forward with a deal to digitise 700 members of the Independent Cinemas Association of Australia (ICAA)... September 24, 2010 Sweden's Supreme Court of Justice has referred an intellectual properties rights test-case - brought to court under the Intellectual Property RIghts Enforcement Directive (IPRED)... September 24, 2010 We are pleased to announce the launch of a number of new territories to our subscription MMOG data. Country markets added to the service include Austria, Belgium, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland. September 24, 2010 Sony's Playstation (PS3) received a firmware update to make the games console 3D Blu-ray Disc (3D BD) compatible on 21 September 2010, despite a recent announcement by Sony Computers at the IFA in Berlin that it could be delayed till October. September 22, 2010 World leading handset manufacturer Nokia and mobile operator Orange have formed a partnership that will give Nokia-using Orange UK and France customers easier access to mobile content... September 22, 2010 Google has relaxed its rules on trademarked brands and terms in Europe in mid-September. Despite protests from international advertisers, we believe the move is bound to boost... September 22, 2010 EntertainmentXpress says it is on schedule to roll out in quantity next year an advanced DVD kiosk that adds some new wrinkles to the vending machine business model... September 22, 2010 Redbox announced, on September 16, four new video rental kiosk deployment deals with convenience stores; signing with EZ Mart Stores, Fastrac Markets, Murphy Express and... September 22, 2010 Toshiba has partnered with French TV technology vendor Netgem for its connected TV platform. The move will see the connected components of Toshiba's new TV sets installed... September 21, 2010 Number one European mobile games publisher Gameloft, in second place to EA Mobile globally, has sold more than 20m games on Apple's App Store for its iOS devices... September 21, 2010 Danish incumbent telco TDC has sold Sunrise, its consumer-facing fixed telephony, broadband and mobile operation in Switzerland, to private equity firm CVC Capital Partners... September 17, 2010 Luxembourg-based satellite pay TV operator M7 Group and public broadcaster ORF are to launch a new satellite pay TV service in Austria. The joint venture, called AustriaSat... September 17, 2010 MTV Spain launched a new free-to-air DTT channel on September 16th after striking a deal with Spanish media group Vocento. MTV Spain will host a range of international content... September 17, 2010 Samsung, the South Korean based conglomerate, will later this month release the PN50C490, the first sub-$1000 3DTV. The 50-inch, 720p plasma TV will initially retail at $989... September 17, 2010 Intel has confirmed its HDCP (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection) security has been cracked. The system is used to deliver content over HDMI and several other digital interfaces... September 16, 2010 The UK's TV licence fee will be kept at its current level for the next two years. In a move proposed by the BBC management body the BBC Trust and quickly agreed by the government... September 16, 2010 Taiwan-based HTC unveiled two Android-based smartphones aimed at the high end of the market. The 'Desire HD' sports a large 4.3 inches screen, while the 'Desire Z' retains a more... September 16, 2010 Nokia used its annual 'Nokia World' conference as a springboard for new hardware and services initiatives.
On the hardware front, Nokia introduced a series of new devices... September 16, 2010 The UK and Italy have both deployed the second generation digital terrestrial DVB-T2 standard in order to supply terrestrial HD channels. In the UK, these channels are available via... September 15, 2010 Capcom has announced new titles at partnerships at the Tokyo Game Show, alongside its acquisition of Blue Castle Games, the Canada-based studio to which development of Dead Rising 2... September 15, 2010 Rovi Corporation is launching a new 'cloud-based advertising platform' technology that will enable consumer electronics manufacturers and TV platform operators to deliver video... September 10, 2010 Bulgaria's incumbent telco, BTC, has launched a new satellite TV platform, offering 70 channels and the option to bundle TV with Internet, mobile and fixed line telephony. Since 2009 BTC... September 10, 2010 German publishing house Axel Springer has announced it will cooperate with Munich-based broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 to enhance its online video advertising strategy... September 10, 2010 Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has launched its online video portal Crackle in Canada in partnership with Rogers Media, who will act as the ad sales agent selling Crackle's Canadian inventory across all of its online distribution channels. September 9, 2010 CTC Media, Russia's 4th most-watched broadcasting group, is to terminate its advertising sales contracts with Video International (VI) following changes in Russian TV advertising... September 9, 2010 Apple's annual iPod event saw a significant revision of its range of portable media players and a major revamp of Apple TV and various updates to other entertainment hardware and services... September 8, 2010 The Romanian government has postponed the country's analogue switch-off deadline, shifting the off date from January 2012 to January 2015. Move had an immediate impact... September 8, 2010 Vue Cinemas has ended its relationship with Pearl & Dean (P&D) for provision of screen advertising and moved over to Digital Cinema Media (DCM), owned by rival circuits Odeon and Cineworld... September 2, 2010 Australian cinema and entertainment group Hoyts has become the first Australian and New Zealand circuit to announce its planned digital cinema rollout, including equipment choices... September 2, 2010 Cablelabs have released a public specification for frame compatible 3D encoding and distribution. Two formats, top-bottom and side-by-side, are supported for HD resolutions (720p, 1080i and 1080p) using MPEG-2 and AVC/H.264 (MPEP-4). September 1, 2010 Panasonic has undertaken a U-turn on its stance towards 2D to 3D conversion technology by including it in two of its new 3D televisions to be released in the US market in 2010... August 26, 2010 Disney is to launch ABC TV On Demand in the UK on BT Vision's IPTV platform. ABC TV On Demand is intended to provide a catalogue of ABC Studios shows to BT Vision... August 25, 2010 Cablecom, the Swiss cable operator owned by UPC, is introducing a 'Try and buy' offer in a bid to woo subscribers. Launching this autumn, the campaign will allow customers... August 23, 2010 Sony has announced deals with several broadcasters to make their online TV services available via its PlayStation 3 (PS3) games console, including ITV, which becomes Sony's... August 20, 2010 The Dutch business tribunal-College van Beroep voor het Bedrijfsleven (CBb)-has ruled against the regulator OPTA's decision to open up the cable networks of the nations... August 20, 2010 The British mobile reseller Carphone Warehouse has launched a subscription music service - 'Music Anywhere', powered by Catch Media and Spare Backup. The service matches user-owned... August 20, 2010 Verizon has joined Cablevision and Dish Network in announcing an iPad app to offer some form of TV service to their customers. Verizon and Cablevision's apps will, initially at least... August 19, 2010 Leading Japanese mobile social network and mobile commerce company DeNA reported total Q2 2010 revenues of $262m. It generated $172.9m from games related sales... August 18, 2010 Sogecable-owned Spanish pay TV operator Digital Plus has launched its first Pay DTT channel in Spain. The channel, Canal Plus Dos, will be launched on the 23rd of August 2010... August 18, 2010 Set-top and consumer electronics manufacturer Echostar will use Widevine's digital rights management (DRM) to secure the IP video that its Sling products stream over the open internet... August 17, 2010 Giant screen company, Imax, has signed a number of key deals with international exhibitors in emerging markets of Russia and China, more than trebling its number of new... August 17, 2010 Some staff at French cinema circuit UGC went on strike in July over plans by the circuit's management to cut 95 projectionist jobs out of a total of 215 (44.2 per cent) as it converts to... August 17, 2010 Blockbuster is testing a joint marketing effort with cable system giant Comcast to promote its by-mail video rental service to Comcast subscribers, providing subscription access to DVD and... August 17, 2010 International channel group and Time Warner subsidiary Turner Broadcasting is to acquire a 100 per cent stake in pan-Scandinavian channel group MMG for an undisclosed amount... August 13, 2010 The introduction of a 28 day window on some studios' new release titles has negatively impacted Redbox's DVD rental kiosk business according to Coinstar's second quarter 2010 results. August 13, 2010 Warner Home Video is to release three Imax 3D titles in the US on Blu-ray Disc (BD). The titles will be available as part of 3D bundle deals with LG and Sony 3D hardware and will be... August 13, 2010 Contrary to a recent report that TCL, one of the two consumer electronics (CE) companies currently manufacturing China Blue High-definition Disc (CBHD) players, was considering... August 13, 2010 The Dutch National Film Institute (Eye) has announced an industry-wide collective plan to convert Dutch cinemas to digital projection equipment by mid-2012, managed by a body known as... August 12, 2010 Walt Disney has sold Miramax Films to a private consortium, Filmyard Holdings, for $660m. The deal, agreed in July 2010, is expected to conclude in the final quarter the year and includes... August 12, 2010 US film and digital services company involved in all stages of the 3D Blu-ray Disc (BD) supply chain claims that it has contracts to author 15 3D BD titles - half the 30 3D BD... August 12, 2010 The number of Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) certified Blu-ray Disc (BD) players nearly doubled in the first half of 2010, according to the group. The group's 245 members, which include... August 12, 2010 Following several recent deals with major circuits, the Spanish market is now priming itself for major digital conversion. Yelmo Cines, the third largest exhibitor in Spain has reached... August 11, 2010 Google has acquired payment solution platform Jambool, for $55m, reportedly accompanied by a $10-15m earnout bonus upon accomplishing certain performance targets.... August 11, 2010 Netflix is to offer movies from multiplatform pay TV channel Epix in its online streaming service Watch Instantly from 1 September 2010. The multi-year deal gives Netflix access to... August 6, 2010 The US-based music rental company MOG has launched MOG Mobile. Only available in the US at present, MOG offers on-demand listening from a catalogue of 8 million tracks for $5 per month... August 6, 2010 Content Delivery Network (CDN) Limelight has acquired online video platform Delve Networks. Delve provides cloud-based video publishing and analytics services on a Software as a... August 6, 2010 French ISP and mobile operator Orange (France Telecom's flagship brand) has formed a partnership with the leading French on-demand music service provider Deezer... August 6, 2010 UK pay TV operator Virgin Media has launched an online TV service in beta. Virgin Media Player will offer content on-demand from a range of partners including... August 5, 2010 Panasonic has introduced a 3D camcorder aimed at the consumer market; the HDC-SDT750. This consumer offering follows hot on the heels of the announcement of its professional 3D... August 5, 2010 News Corp's Sky Italia satellite platform made a net gain of 45,000 subscribers in the quarter to 30 June - its first quarterly increase for more than a year. Sky Italia ended its parent company's... August 4, 2010 The dominance of the UK pay TV market by British Sky Broadcasting has triggered another competition investigation. Communications regulator Ofcom has asked the Competition... August 4, 2010 RIM unveiled an update to its smartphone operating system dubbed BlackBerry 6, along with its new BlackBerry Torch 9800 flagship smartphone... August 4, 2010 Incumbent telco Telecom New Zealand (TNZ) has sold the consumer retail broadband and voice unit of its telco in Australia, AAPT, to iiNet, for AUD60m... August 4, 2010 The National Football League (NFL) in the US is to stream its preseason fixtures live online. Accessed via NFL.com, NFL Preseason Live will enable users to watch 54 games in real time... August 3, 2010 ITV is returning to the UK pay-TV market for the first time since the failure of its digital terrestrial television venture, ITV digital. The broadcaster will launch three channels... August 2, 2010 M6 group revenues grew 9.4 per cent in the first half of 2010, driven by the advertising recovery on the French TV advertising market, and non-advertising activities that did equally... August 2, 2010 TF1 group revenues increased 14 per cent in the first half of 2010 to EUR 1,285m. Net advertising revenues (NAR) on TF1's core TV channel increased 11 per cent to EUR 765m... July 30, 2010 AT&T added 209,000 subscribers to its U-Verse video business and Verizon added 174,000 to FiOS during the second quarter of 2010, bringing the telcos' IPTV subscriber bases up to 2.5m and 3.2m, respectively. July 29, 2010 The Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), the collaborative effort between network operators designed to offer a unified mobile applications platform, has formed a corporate entity, appointed a board and outlined its plans for the next 18 months. July 29, 2010 Russia has started its DTT roll-out by launching eight free-to-air channels on the first multiplex in the region of Khabarovsk in the (far) East of the country... July 29, 2010 Both of the UK's leading pay TV operators, British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) and Virgin Media, reported strong second quarter results, driven by consumer take-up of... July 28, 2010 US based private equity firm Francisco Partners has made a binding offer to Technicolor for the purchase of Grass Valley's Broadcast business for $100 million while Technicolor seeks... July 27, 2010 Intel Capital, a subsidiary of the chip giant Intel, and Limelight Networks, the CDN specialist, have invested in on-demand games operator Gaikai. Details of the transaction were... July 27, 2010 Microsoft and UK-based mobile chip designer ARM have signed a new licensing agreement, enabling Microsoft to develop ARM-based software and hardware. Microsoft currently develops two... July 27, 2010 Netflix announced July 19 it will expand its streaming services north past the US border into Canada. While the US online video giant will not offer disc rental by mail to Canadians, it will... July 26, 2010 BBC regulator, The BBC Trust, has approved the public broadcaster's plans for a range of smartphone applications. Having reviewed the proposed apps, the Trust decided that... July 26, 2010 RTL Group, the Luxembourg-based broadcaster, has sold its struggling Five Group business to Richard Desmond, publisher of the Daily Express newspaper. Desmond's company Northern & Shell... July 26, 2010 UK set-top box (STB) manufacturer Pace has strengthened its move into the residential gateway space with the acquisition of 2wire. Pace will pay $475m for the US-based company... July 22, 2010 Russian cable and telecoms company MTS has acquired cable operator Multiregion in a move to expand its activities in the sector. With the acquisition of Multiregion... July 21, 2010 Apple has released results for the quarter ended 26 June 2010. Sales of Mac computers continued to grow, reaching an all time high of nearly 3.5m, of which over 71 per cent were laptops, continuing... July 21, 2010 Digital display advertising leads the outdoor recovery across Europe. The UK is leading the way as digital revenues reach 10 per cent of out-of-home advertising revenues and growth is... July 21, 2010 Three major markets in Central and Eastern Europe have reported large increases at the box office in first half 2010 as the influx and popularity of movies available as 3D versions... July 21, 2010 Spanish cable operators Euskaltel, Telecable, ONO and R have partnered in a move to secure wireless spectrum in upcoming auctions in the 800, 900 MHz, 2.1 and 2.6 GHz frequency bands.... July 21, 2010 Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) confirmed it plans to acquire the majority of Motorola's wireless network infrastructure assets in a $1.2Bn cash transaction... July 19, 2010 Sony has revealed that its Minis service, offering small titles for PSP and PS3 that typically cost less than $10, has achieved 1m downloads worldwide since the launch of the channel in Q4 2009... July 19, 2010 German exhibitor Cineplex Deutschland, the second largest in the territory, has agreed terms with pan-European integrator XDC, to enable full conversion of its 451 screen estate to high-end... July 16, 2010 Netflix has signed a deal with Warner Bros. that will add more TV shows to the Netflix library as well as extending movie title licensing from the studio through 2011. This is the first time... July 16, 2010 Satellite TV platform DirecTV is pressing ahead with the deployment of 3DTV, adding n3D, one of three channels sponsored by technology partner Panasonic, and ESPN 3D to its offering... July 15, 2010 Sony Pictures Television is ramping up launches of basic cable networks in the US with Sony Pictures Movies HD and FEARnet. The studio has a strong cable presence internationally, but not in the US... July 14, 2010 Pan-European digital cinema services company XDC has signed a deal with German exhibitor Kinopolis for full upgrade of its 123 screens to digital cinema technology. Deployment will be... July 14, 2010 Leading social network Facebook is set to move beyond its mobile application strategy as it plans to become a stand-alone mobile platform which developers can distribute mobile apps with... July 14, 2010 Swedish mobile media company Aspiro sold its Mobile Entertainment division as it shifts focus to its music and TV streaming and B2B services business. Lobus Mobil has acquired... July 14, 2010 Home entertainment arm of Indian optical disc manufacturer Moser Baer (MB) will release five world cinema titles on DVD a month in India, starting this month (July) following an... July 13, 2010 Sony Professional has signed up more exhibitors to its rollout programme for the 4K projector route, the largest of which is the US and international circuit National Amusements. Operating as... July 13, 2010 Following a record first quarter in Chinese cinemas, box office revenues have continued to surge, recording an additional $242m in the second quarter. Total box office equated to $676.47m... July 13, 2010 US pay TV set-top box (STB) manufacturer, Echostar is to launch its first STB for the free-to-air (FTA) DTH retail market. Echostar will utilise place-shifting technology from 2007 acquisition Sling Media... July 12, 2010 France Télévisions' new portal pluzz.tv offers catch-up from across the broadcaster's suite of channels. The broadcaster said that about 80 per cent of the content aired will be accessible... July 12, 2010 Aurora Feint, US creator of social mobile games platform OpenFeint, raised $4m in its second funding round. The investment, from Chinese games developer The9, will help expand... July 12, 2010 The largest independent broadband provider in France, SFR, has expanded its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) footprint to densely populated areas, launching its 100Mbit/s product in Lyon... July 12, 2010 Disney launched its fight back in the iPhone games market with the acquisition of leading developer Tapulous. Once a leader in mobile games, Disney had previously pursued a cautious... July 12, 2010 Webb Group, owner of video distributor ChoicesUK, has revealed plans to install 500 Rent It Here kiosks in UK convenience stores and other retail outlets by March 2011. New DVD titles will be available... July 12, 2010 Google and Beijing have reached a new compromise that will allow Google to keep operating in China. In an unexpected development, Chinese authorities have renewed Google's Internet... July 9, 2010 Stroer is going public on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in order to raise funds for strategic investments and acquisitions. The German outdoor advertising leader plans to acquire News Outdoor... July 9, 2010 Swedish online video start-up Voddler is now available in Sweden and Norway to anyone wishing to access the site. The service, which is notable for bringing 'free' (ad funded), legal movies... July 8, 2010 Multinational telecoms operator TeliaSonera has exited the Danish cable business, having sold its cable subsidiary Stofa for DKr1.1bn($186.8m). Stofa is to be sold on a cash and debt free... July 8, 2010 Consumer spending across the UK-based HMV Group increased 3.1 per cent to over £2bn ($3bn) during the financial year ending 24 April 2010. Total profits also grew by 17.7 per cent to £74.2m... July 7, 2010 As part of a strategy to rein in its investment in content, France Telecom is seeking investment for its French pay TV channels. The company is willing to sell up to 50 per cent of the equity in the channels... July 7, 2010 Estonia switched off the analogue terrestrial signal throughout the country on 1 July, three and half years after DTT first launched. According to the national strategy for further development... July 6, 2010 Channel 4 Sales is to become the exclusive advertising representative for the UKTV portfolio of digital TV channels from January 2010, for ten years... July 6, 2010 Warner Music Group (WMG) and MTV Networks (MTVN) have announced a long-term digital advertising sales partnership for the US. The deal grants MTVN exclusive rights to sell... July 6, 2010 The Indian pay TV market is set to consolidate, as telco Reliance Communications (RCOM) announced that it would acquire leading cable multi systems operator (MSO) Digicable... July 5, 2010 Screen Digest has revised its UK retail video forecasts upwards on the basis of year-to-date information from the British Video Association on Blu-ray Disc (BD) hardware sales and DVD... July 2, 2010 US over-the-top (OTT), set-top box (STB)-based service, Roku and Clearleap, a start-up offering an online Video-on-Demand (VoD) platform, have formed a partnership designed to... June 30, 2010 American sports fans’ new-found enthusiasm for FIFA World Cup soccer, fueled by the inspiring performance of their home team, is helping to kick off the U.S. market for video service... June 23, 2010 Warner Bros. Entertainment has signed a revenue sharing deal with UK-based online video subscription operator LoveFilm under which Warner will provide movie content in the UK for... June 21, 2010 Microsoft has announced an exclusive deal with ESPN to bring live streaming from ESPN3 (formerly ESPN 360), plus short-form highlights and other clips from ESPN.com, to the Xbox... June 18, 2010 The Walt Disney Company has broken off negotiations with a group of investors seeking to buy the Miramax studio and its film library. According to reports due diligence conducted... June 18, 2010 The UK Outdoor Advertising Association (OAA) reported Q1 2010 industry revenues of £204m, a 14.6 per cent year-on-year increase. The billboard and small-format retail segments... June 17, 2010 The football war between Spanish pay TV rivals Mediapro and Sogecable has flared up again after Mediapro's rights division this week filed for bankruptcy protection after a new spat... June 16, 2010 US cable MSO Cox is to launch a multi-room DVR (mDVR) service with new Cisco STBs. The offering will involve at least one HD DVR which will then be able to distribute stored... June 15, 2010 As widely anticipated, Apple unveiled its latest iPhone during its annual developer conference. The iPhone 4 offers a range of new or improved hardware features including a... June 10, 2010 Expanding its industry-leading analysis of the electronics value chain into the fast-growing media market, iSuppli Corp. today announced it has entered into an agreement in principle... May 18, 2010 Fox's 3D motion picture phenomenon Avatar has set a new record, dethroning The Dark Knight as the top Blu-ray Disc seller of all time after just two weeks of sales... May 10, 2010 A proposed secondary stock listing by creditors and equity-holders of US cable company Charter Communications, along with the separate auction of ex-Charter subsidiary... May 6, 2010 Content Delivery Network (CDN) Limelight has completed its acquisition of Eyewonder for $110m, first announced in December 2009. Eyewonder provides campaign... April 21, 2010 RealD, the leading provider of stereoscopic 3D equipment to commercial cinemas has filed a preliminary S-1 registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange... |