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Russian over-the-top (OTT) video service Ivi.ru has chosen content protection technology from US firm Verimatrix to protect its service, which offers a vast range of free content a... More

75% of households in the US have at least one HDTV set, up from 23% five years ago. Few watch 3D TV. Over the past five years, 52% of US households adopted HDTV, according to resea... More

There is a lot of straining these days to come up with ads that pretend they’re not ads, and very often they are lousy or worse. But here’s a really good one: Lincoln spent a t... More

Tesco is preparing to launch a free TV and movie service exclusively to Clubcard customers. The supermarket giant has launched a beta site, called Clubcard TV, which currently feat... More

Expanding its online video services beyond the Web, Google has signed a deal with free-to-air UK satellite TV service Freesat to add a dedicated YouTube app for customers, ensuring... More

On Wednesday, Liberty Global, the cable-TV and internet giant that Malone controls 40pc of, acquired Virgin Media for $23.3bn (£14bn). It was a grand entrance by the American into... More

The trial will see up to 40 hours of programming across a range of genres initially available on the BBC iPlayer. Until now, the BBC's online-only content has been limited to pilot... More

Both companies capture the signals of TV broadcasters including CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox and deliver them to subscribers online. Both enterprises have been defending lawsuits against ... More

The global fixed broadband market generated service revenues of US$ 188bn in 2012, up 7% from 2011, and is set to continue growing to reach US$ 251bn by 2018, according to US firm ... More

Gabe Newell's wide-ranging keynote at the DICE Summit this morning didn't include any big announcements. But Newell did provide some tantalizing hints about how Valve is thinking a... More

I was intrigued—and a bit confused—by a radio segment on the Daine Rehm Show Tuesday debating an FCC plan for free nationwide WiFi using low-frequency “white space” spectru... More

The mobile opportunity is of course colossal and the ubiquity of mobiles devices indiscriminate of geography means the mobile channel is able to penetrate an ever far-reaching glob... More

Matthias Kurth, Executive Chairman of trade body Cable Europe, has suggested that the cable industry is well positioned to play a role in the delivery of OTT services and would con... More

Google Inc.'s YouTube has a familiar problem: Plenty of illegally uploaded movies are finding their way onto the website. Hundreds of full-length feature films including blockbuste... More

Under the new agreement, FilmFlex will invest in the development, roll-out and management of next generation video-on-demand (VoD) services, as well as procuring and curating film ... More

Google Inc must extend its offer made last week to pay French publishers for use of their content to all media companies across Europe, the head of the European Publishers Council ... More

Watching television while also using a smartphone or tablet is one of the most popular leisure activities of the mobile era. The mobile industry is working hard to create mobile ap... More

Last year GetGlue launched a new iPad app and website with a social program guide, activity feeds and community features. Today, they’ve bought that functionality to the iPhone. ... More

Consumers will eventually pay less for entertainment streamed to smaller devices, with studios and distributors basing prices on the size of the destination device, movie mogul Jef... More