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TV Connect: Sigma Launches Z-Wave Home Control Products (IPTV News)
US chip vendor Sigma Designs has revealed its new ‘Z-Wave Next Gen’ portfolio, aimed at original equipment manufacturers and service providers looking to develop home control p... More
Smartclip Launches Private Exchange For Video Advertising (Rapid TV News)
Global multiscreen video and brand advertising platform, smartclip has launched a programmatic video ad platform enabling advanced selling within a private exchange environment. Av... More
iStreamPlanet Study Shows Pay TV Customers Want Multiscreen (Streaming Media)
iStreamPlanet, a video workflow company that offers live linear video solutions, has released a study showing that -- surprise -- viewers want live linear multiscreen delivery. Cre... More
YouTube Tops 1 Billion Monthly Users (USA Today)
YouTube says more than 1 billion people are now visiting its online video site each month to watch everything from zany clips of cute kittens to sobering scenes of social unrest ar... More
Fitch: Shortened SVOD Window Will Not Accelerate 'Cord Cutting' (HMM)
Ratings firm says increased online access to primetime TV programming will result in 10% to 20% of pay-TV subscribers dropping service Recent announcements by CBS Corp. that it lic... More
How Canal Digital Will Address Pay TV’s “Downward Spiral” (Videonet)
The NDS middleware platform will form a key element in Canal Digital’s strategy to address what its Director of Business Strategy, Tore Melling, described as the ‘downward spir... More
Satellite 2013: “4K Will Be A TV Game Changer” (Advanced Television)
The ‘big four’ of top satellite operators at the Washington Satellite 2013 show, through their CEOs, exhibited some considerable differences in their timetables for the introdu... More
Digital Video Value Chain Adds More Links To Surpass $6BN In 2012 (Rapid TV News)
The positive net effect of the huge uptake of video consumption through multiscreen video has been revealed in a new survey by AccuStream Research. The analyst found that the digit... More
Deloitte: Tablets Driving Consumers to Rent, Not Buy Movies (HMM)
A surge in tablet usage contributed to 28% of survey respondents saying they would rent a movie this year compared to 12% who said they would buy on disc or digital, according to a... More
Samsung: Treat Mobile as "First Screen" or Risk Failure (GamesIndustry International)
Samsung's Neil Sharma has warned the console companies to start regarding mobile devices as their "first screens" to avoid financial calamity. During a panel at SXSW Interactive, a... More
How Hollywood's Own Pirates Must Inform The Future Of Copyright (Tech Dirt)
After last year's Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) debacle, Hollywood quietly retreated from the copyright debate to nurse its wounds and rethink strategy. Now, with recent activity ... More
Amazon In Talks With Record Labels About Subscription Music Service (The Verge)
Subscription music services have yet to profit but that hasn't stopped some of the internet's biggest media distributors from jumping into the business. Amazon, the web's biggest r... More
Sky Sports “Pay As You Go” Goes Live (Advanced Television)
Sky Sports channels are now available on a pay-as-you go basis for the first time. Sky is offering sports fans unlimited access to its range of six sports channels – including ... More
Big Data Essential to Success of Connected TVs, MediaCom's Jeff Hinz (Beet.TV)
The next frontier for digital video is the connected TV, says Jeff Hinz, Managing Partner and U.S. Digital Director at MediaCom, during an interview with Beet.TV. "We have 50% of ... More
Why No One Likes Mobile Ads and How Companies Hope to Change That (MIT Technology Review)
Where consumer attention goes, ad dollars are supposed to follow. That hasn’t quite happened on mobile devices. U.S. adults now spend about 82 minutes a day on average using mobi... More
Adobe: “TV Is No Longer the Device – It Is the Content” (IPTV News)
With the mainstream adoption of video consumption on personal devices, we are now witnessing the greatest change in broadcast TV since the arrival of colour, according to Jeremy He... More
Yahoo in Talks to Buy Stake in Video Site Dailymotion (Wall Street Journal)
Yahoo Inc. is in talks to buy a controlling stake in France Telecom SA's online-video site Dailymotion, according to people familiar with the talks, in what would be Yahoo Chief Ex... More
KIT digital Showcases Integrated Social Program Guide at TV Connect 2013 (MarketWire)
KIT digital, alongside Digisoft.tv -- a leading global provider of carrier class solutions to the IPTV, hybrid and media and entertainment markets -- will showcase a working exampl... More
Civolution Selected by France Télévisions Editions Numériques for its Prime Time Programming ‘C à vous’ (Civolution)
Civolution, the leading provider of technology and solutions for identifying, managing and monetizing media content, today announces that France Télévisions Editions Numériques�... More