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BSkyB & Sony join for PSP video on demand service
BSkyB (British Sky Broadcasting) has entered into a joint venture with Sony to make video on demand available to the 2.3 million PlayStation Portable owners in the UK and Ireland in early 2008.
The joint venture company have equal board level representation from Sky and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.
The service, which will be the first […]
July 31, 2007
BBC iPlayer: technical issues but content good
The BBC launched an open beta version of iPlayer on 27 July, an on-demand TV service delivering BBC TV programmes direct to the PC.
BBC iPlayer allows UK licence fee payers to download programmes broadcast in the last seven days from all the BBC’s network TV channels.
Once a programme has been downloaded, viewers have […]
July 30, 2007
IPTV to feature at the IBC 2007
The IBC 2007 show, in September 07 will be featuring for the very first time IPTV, this is a great boost for the industry as it proves to every one that IPTV is here to stay and is a great recognition of the potential that the industry has and for the strides that it has […]
July 30, 2007
XLeague.TV partners with EVS
EVS, the broadcast solution provider, has entered into an alliance with XLeague.TV, the first British TV channel dedicated to competitive gaming.
XLeague.TV, which was launched on Sky Channel 279 in May, will be the first channel in the UK to operate EVS’s cutting-edge production technology within a next generation gaming environment.
XLeague.TV provides a series of […]
July 30, 2007
Pace Make £6.1 million Profit
UK set top box manufacturer announces a huge £6.1 million profit for the year ending June 07. This is really remarkable considering that this time last the year, the figures were entirely different, as the company posted a massive £15.6 loss.
While revenues were £386.5 million, compared to a the sorry figure of only £178.1 million […]
July 30, 2007
KT launches IPTV in Russia
The Korean telecommunications company KT who recently announced that that intended to launch IPTV into the Korean IPTV market through their TV brand Mega TV appear to have hit a bit of a snag. Apparently there are some legal complications in Korea which mean that broadcasting in real time cannot take place, naturally with this […]
July 27, 2007
Thomson Paragon transmitter selected by Arqiva
Thomson, a world leader in digital video technologies, has been appointed by Arqiva, the independent broadcast transmission provider in the UK, as its supplier for high power digital television transmitters for the BBC.
Arqiva has ordered 24 new Thomson Paragon IOT (inductive output tube) transmitters to service its BBC contract, which involves delivering two digital multiplexes.
Arqiva’s […]
July 27, 2007
IPTV in the Czech Republic takes off
Telephonic O2 has managed to more than double its user base in less than six months, at the beginning of the year they had 16,000 subscribers, that figure is now 38,000. Also with the same time frame the company had 526,000 ADSL access points, whereas at the beginning of the year this figure was only […]
July 27, 2007
IPTV up in the air
It would seem that there is a totally untapped market for IPTV. The marketplace is on every commercial aircraft that ferry people around confined in a small tight space. IPTV would work very well in a situation similar to this.
Virgin have already adopted a video on demand service on its fights, this offers the ability […]
July 27, 2007
Orange UK prepares for IPTV
Later on in the year Orange UK will be launching its digital TV service and in preparation for this they have been keeping busy by forging partnerships with some pretty impressive suppliers for their video on demand content.
Amongst the suppliers will be Disney ABC international Television, this will allow Orange subscribers to watch a selection […]