MUMBAI: The usage of Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) is on the rise in the United States. 36 per cent of US homes have DVRs, four times...
MUMBAI: The television, both the device and the experience, has arrived at an inflection point. In keynote addresses at the Intel Developer Forum in the US,...
MUMBAI: Big TV, the direct-to-home (DTH) arm of Reliance Communications, has added 13 new South Indian language channels as it aggressively eyes the south market. While...
MUMBAI: NDS, which provides technology solutions for digital pay-TV, has announced that digital cable TV operator Den, has launched two services on the NDS MediaHighway platform....
MUMBAI: Twitter is nailing down a $100 million fresh funding that would set its valuation at $1 billion. New York-based venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners...
MUMBAI: Internet advertising is expected to account for about 15 per cent of global measured ad spending in 2010, up from an anticipated 13 per cent...
MUMBAI: Bharti Airtel has announced the premiere of the Brad Pitt starrer The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on its direct-to-home (DTH) service, Airetel Digital TV...
MUMBAI: Star, a wholly owned subsidiary of News Corporation, today launched four of its Hindi channels on Comcast‘s Chicago area cable platform. These channels include Star...
MUMBAI: Market leader Dish TV India is planning a Global Depositary Receipt (GDR) issue as it pursues to raise up to $200 million to fund its...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has announced that the total broadband subscribers in India have increased to 6.98 million in August as against...
MUMBAI: With the new fall television season heating up this week in the US, Comcast has announced the findings of its TV Pulse Survey. The survey...
NEW DELHI: The sluggish pace of digitisation in India is likely to be the main item on the agenda of the first-ever meeting of the Board...
MUMBAI: Fox Mobile Entertainment has roped in Airborne Mobile, a full-service mobile media company, to develop and distribute mobile personalisation content based on The Cleveland Show....
MUMBAI: The Reader‘s Digest Association (RDA) is rolling out a new global web platform in more than 40 international markets including China, where the platform is...
MUMBAI: BSkyB is all set to challenge UK media watchdog Ofcom, accusing it of exceeding its legal powers and insisting the former to cut down prices...
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has confirmed that action channel AXN is now being aired across the Adriatic region of Europe, including Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Macedonia...
MUMBAI: The Asiasat 5 communications satellite of Asian satellite operator Asiasat began commercial service on 17 September, at the orbital location of 100.5 degrees East with...
MUMBAI: Hinduja Ventures Ltd (HVL) is in the process of getting its content assets under an associate company, Planet E-Shop Holdings India Ltd. As part of...
MUMBAI: Star, a wholly owned subsidiary of News Corporation, has launched four of its Hindi channels on Comcast’s Spokane cable platform in Washington. The channels include...
MUMBAI: Locked in intense fight for subscriber growth, the DTH operators have come out with special discount offers and packs for the festive season.And why not?...
MUMBAI: Alcatel-Lucent has introduced a converged IP/Optical backbone network solution. The solution is designed to relieve the strain on service providers‘ core networks caused by the...
MUMBAI: Seagate, which offers hard disk drives and storage solutions, has unveiled its new FreeAgent Theater+ HD media player. This is being positioned as the next...
MUMBAI: China Satellite Mobile Broadcasting Corporation (CSM) has selected China Digital TV Holding to provide conditional access (CA) systems to mobile TV networks throughout China. CSM...
MUMBAI: Star Network has extended its roadblock initiatives from television to the online video space. Star Player, Star Network‘s online video destination, has partnered with Tata...
MUMBAI: Cable TV was shut in many pockets of Mumbai today following the death of a local cable operator. On Sunday night, 52-year-old Dinabandhu Jena, a...
MUMBAI: Google, which had bought DoubleClick for $3.1 billion last year, has launched DoubleClick Ad Exchange in a bid to attract a bigger chunk of the...
MUMBAI: Airtel Digital TV, the direct-to-home (DTH ) service from Bharti Airtel, has announced the availability of the Rishi Kapoor-starrer Chintuji on its pay per view...
MUMBAI: Accentuating the experience of live cricket matches beyond the field onto the mobile platform, the cricket based games created by Indiagames have recorded more than...
MUMBAI: Revenue from the delivery of Internet video to the TV will grow nearly six-fold in the next five years, from a meager $1 billion in...
MUMBAI: Star India has announced the availability of its Hindi general entertainment channel (GEC) Star One and Tamil GEC Star Vijay on mobile TV platform. Star...
MUMBAI: UK-based BT has launched a new on-demand service called ‘Bolly & Beyond‘ on its IPTV service ‘BT Vision‘ that offers South Asian films, TV, music...
MUMBAI: Comcast, the US based entertainment service provider, has reveals their plans to offer TV shows on mobile devices through its new wireless internet service. The...
MUMBAI: CNN has launched a commercial self-service on-line storefront of its wire stories. This enables journalists, publishers and media organisations to license CNN story content through...
MUMBAI: PVR Cinemas has partnered with Oxigen, the IT- enabled service provider to offer movie tickets through Oxigen‘s pan India retail network. With this deal, it...
MUMBAI: n a bid to generate more revenue streams, The Wall Street Journal is planning to charge for access to the newspaper on mobile devices such...
MUMBAI: As Adobe looks at expanding its business focus from desktop to the internet and mobile web, it has decided to acquire Omniture, the audience analytics...
MUMBAI: GlobeCast has renewed and significantly expanded its contract with Uefa in a deal to provide HD coverage of the Uefa Champions League and HD (high-definition)...
MUMBAI: Motorola‘s Home and Networks Mobility business has revealed its next generation encoding platform. This video processing platform supports both MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 standard-definition (SD) and...
MUMBAI: Dish TV, the direct-to-home (DTH) arm of Essel Group, has announced a tie up with Indiatimes.com, Times Group‘s internet venture, to provide mobile value added...
AMSTERDAM: Day three of IBC. The highlight was the screening of the 3D movie Monsters and Aliens in the evening. It was quite a sight to...
MUMBAI: Digital media company DivX has signed a licensing agreement with Motorola for certified Motorola IPTV set-top boxes. The set top-boxes will be initially available in...
MUMBAI: ET Now, the English business news channel from the Times Global Broadcasting stable, has signed a distribution deal with Dish TV to be available on...
MUMBAI: Tata Sky, the direct-to-home (DTH) joint venture between Tata Group and Star, is celebrating the first year anniversary of Tata Sky+, the personal video recorder...
MUMBAI: BBC.com‘s traffic in Asia Pacific has grown by 21 per cent in its monthly reach in the second quarter of the year compared to the...
MUMBAI: Sony in the US has introduced a new line of ultra-thin Bravia LCD HDTVs featuring an advanced edge-lit LED backlight and contrast ratio of over...
MUMBAI: It wouldn‘t be good enough for the BBC just to broadcast the 2012 Olympic Games to the UK. The measure of success is not simply...
MUMBAI: Amid a rapidly-growing subscriber base, the Kalanithi Maran-owned Sun Direct has taken a loss of around Rs 2.63 billion for the six-month period ending 31...
MUMBAI: On the back of four big sports events over the next 12 months, ESPN Star Sports (ESS) is targeting an aggressive growth in pay-TV revenues....
MUMBAI:AT&T has rolled out AT&T Entertainment, a new website entertainment.att.net that supports streaming TV shows and movies on PC. The online content is provided by content...
AMSTERDAM: It was opening party night on 11 September at IBC in Amsterdam. Even as Ekta Kapoor and her friends were grooving at a beach-themed party...