The Asia Pacific pay-TV industry remains under siege from OTT services and rampant piracy, which is expected to impact growth and revenues, according to executives attending the 2018 Asia-Pacific Pay-TV Innovation Forum, hosted by Nagra Read more…
5G action this day: KT unveils a 5G blimp for emergency rescue ops; Nokia and Tencent in R&D pact for 5G vertical apps; DoCoMo develops live 8K VR streaming system; Samsung and SK Telecom demo Read more…
NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company and a leading independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, showcased smart solutions for the OTT era at CommunicAsia 2018. According to the Pay-TV Innovation Forum, catering to Read more…
Video DRM action this day: Nagra secures KT SkyLife’s hybrid satellite/mobile service; Verimatrix supplies multi-DRM protection for TFC’s OTT services; Irdeto provides armor for Android TV Nagra secures KT SkyLife’s hybrid satellite/mobile service Nagra announced Read more…
It’s true that telecoms operators have a unique opportunity to claim a foothold in the pay-TV market. In the last few years, we’ve seen them increasingly compete with cablecos in providing broadband services and access Read more…
Video consumption on mobile devices stabilized in Q1 2018 at nearly three of every five videos watched, while media companies created and processed nearly three times as much video content in the same period year Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook-owned social network Instagram launched a mobile app on Wednesday dedicated to user-generated videos up to an hour long, intensifying the competition for consumers’ time among ad-supported streaming services such as Read more…
Nagra announced it is providing a new OTT platform for multi-system cable operator Taiwan Broadband Communications (TBC). Powered by Nagra’s OpenTV Suite, TBC’s new OTT service – TBC Go – will give both cable and Read more…
Globe Telecom and The Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia have introduced DisneyLife: The World of Disney in One App, which enables users to watch Disney content via mobile. The Globe Telecom launch marks DisneyLife’s first Read more…
OTT video services have attracted hundreds of millions of subscribers worldwide, causing pressure on traditional pay-TV operators, and that’s not going to change anytime soon, with the global OTT video subscriber base expected to reach Read more…
HKTV has officially ended its eight-year quest to break into Hong Kong’s free-to-air TV business after the Communications Authority (CA) accepted its application to surrender the broadcast license it only received less than a year Read more…
The Joint Video Experts Team – a collaborative team formed by the ITU-T Study Group 16 Video Coding Experts Group and ISO/IEC JTC1 SC29/WG11 (Moving Picture Experts Group, MPEG) – has launched a project to Read more…
The era of video on demand (VoD) is rapidly gripping the Indian entertainment industry thanks to the increase in both international and domestic OTT players, says GlobalData. Some factors such as 4G connectivity, broadband efficiency Read more…
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Walt Disney Co on Thursday debuted its new ESPN+ digital subscription service, the first consumer offering in the traditional media company’s push to become a leader in streaming entertainment. The service Read more…
Last month, Indonesian operator XL Axiata announced plans to diversify its business with an ambitious triple-play service covering mobile/fixed-line broadband and pay-TV. XL Axiata aims to spend $500 million over the next five years to Read more…
Mobile video plays topped 60% of all video starts globally for the first time in the fourth quarter of 2017, according to Ooyala’s newly released Q4 2017 Global Video Index Report. Geographically, Europe/Middle East/Africa (EMEA) had the Read more…
(Reuters) – Amazon.com’s top television shows drew more than 5 million people worldwide to its Prime shopping club by early 2017, according to company documents, revealing for the first time how the retailer’s bet on Read more…
Verimatrix says it has integrated APIs between its MultiRights OTT multi-DRM security solution and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Media Services through AWS Elemental MediaConvert and AWS Elemental MediaPackage. AWS Media Services are cloud-based services with Read more…
NexPlayer SDK announced at CES 2018 that their HTML5 Video Player is now fully compatible with Verspective RT, a key component of the Verspective Analytics platform from Verimatrix. This means video service providers can now Read more…
Irdeto announced at CES 2018 that it has expanded its long-term security partnership with Indian satellite pay TV operator Tata Sky, under which Tata Sky will implement Irdeto Cloaked CA and middleware to deliver an improved customer Read more…
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