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  • Idea Cellular to offer live TV, music services

    Idea Cellular to offer live TV, music services

    MUMBAI: It’s the charge of the telco brigade. First Airtel and Reliance Jio hared into the content space by announcing their Wynk, Wynk Video and Wynk Games and JioGames, JioCinema, JioTV, JioPlay, JioOnDemand services offering an array of video, music, game chat apps. Now it’s the turn of another telco major – the Aditya Birla group owned Idea Cellular – to do the same. In an investor presentation, the company says it is planning its own range of mobile digital services right from live television to videos to music to games to music to news/magazines to chat and even money transfers.

    First off the blocks will be Idea Game Spark (Q3 FY 2017), Idea Videos and Idea Music before the last quarter of FY 2017 (January-March 2017). Idea TV, Idea News/magazines, Idea storage and Idea chat will follow in FY 2018 (April 2017 onwards).

    In the presentation, Idea says it expects mobile data usage to sky rocket just like voice over mobile did in the growth phase of wireless telephony. About 1.1 billion Indians will get access to wireless broadband by 2019-2020 (250-300 million in March 2015), and the subscriber base of 3G/4G services is expected to rapidly swell from 130 million in March 2016 to 540 million by 2021. Idea expects data consumption per user to more than treble from the current 475 MB per month in the same period.

    In March 2016, it had 22.8 million wireless broadband subs each of whom consumed 642 MB of data per month. Idea explains that its broadband services today are available to 400 million Indians; it is targeting to expand that 500 million by March 2017. It’s on course to have nearly 100,000 data sites active in 17 circles by the end of FY-2017.

    With the launch of its digital content and other apps, mobile subscribers are likely to be spoiled for choice and competition is expected to hot up between Jio, Airtel, Vodafone and Idea. For television channels and content creators, however, it’s going to open up new worlds of opportunity.

  • Idea Cellular to offer live TV, music services

    Idea Cellular to offer live TV, music services

    MUMBAI: It’s the charge of the telco brigade. First Airtel and Reliance Jio hared into the content space by announcing their Wynk, Wynk Video and Wynk Games and JioGames, JioCinema, JioTV, JioPlay, JioOnDemand services offering an array of video, music, game chat apps. Now it’s the turn of another telco major – the Aditya Birla group owned Idea Cellular – to do the same. In an investor presentation, the company says it is planning its own range of mobile digital services right from live television to videos to music to games to music to news/magazines to chat and even money transfers.

    First off the blocks will be Idea Game Spark (Q3 FY 2017), Idea Videos and Idea Music before the last quarter of FY 2017 (January-March 2017). Idea TV, Idea News/magazines, Idea storage and Idea chat will follow in FY 2018 (April 2017 onwards).

    In the presentation, Idea says it expects mobile data usage to sky rocket just like voice over mobile did in the growth phase of wireless telephony. About 1.1 billion Indians will get access to wireless broadband by 2019-2020 (250-300 million in March 2015), and the subscriber base of 3G/4G services is expected to rapidly swell from 130 million in March 2016 to 540 million by 2021. Idea expects data consumption per user to more than treble from the current 475 MB per month in the same period.

    In March 2016, it had 22.8 million wireless broadband subs each of whom consumed 642 MB of data per month. Idea explains that its broadband services today are available to 400 million Indians; it is targeting to expand that 500 million by March 2017. It’s on course to have nearly 100,000 data sites active in 17 circles by the end of FY-2017.

    With the launch of its digital content and other apps, mobile subscribers are likely to be spoiled for choice and competition is expected to hot up between Jio, Airtel, Vodafone and Idea. For television channels and content creators, however, it’s going to open up new worlds of opportunity.

  • DishTV selects Wyplay to provide middleware and VAS to STBs

    DishTV selects Wyplay to provide middleware and VAS to STBs

    MUMBAI DishTV has selected creator of software solutions for pay-TV operators Wyplay, to provide its Frog Turnkey Middleware and associated class leading value added services on its STBs.

    The DishTV concept has created some excitement amongst the operator community which is struggling for freedom from the monopolistic construct of the pay-TV space. Future solutions’ will be built from top partners’ products while keeping in mind the idea of flexibility, openness and the possibility to evolve without constraints and any E2E lock.

    Speaking on the occasion, DishTV COO VK Gupta said: “Being the pioneer and market leader, DishTV  has selected Wyplay as our future middleware partner. Wyplay will enable DishTV in delivering class leading value added services on both one-way and connected STB’s with its expertise, innovative technologies and a holistic approach to customer engagement that is fully in line with DishTV’s’ driving purpose to  provide ‘Service with a Passion’. This is an ultimate move made towards ensuring customer engagement and satisfaction.”

    Recognized as a global leader in innovative software solutions for TV operators, Wyplay brings its expertise and know-how to the table, in particular through the integration of its browser-based middleware on new generation set-top boxes, the customization of its HTML5 user interface, execution excellence to deliver an easy-to-use and smooth user experience, and improved overall performance in terms of flexibility, fluidity, speed, and responsiveness.
     Wyplay CEO Jacques Bourgninaud, said:  “We are thrilled to partner with DishTV, Asia’s largest DTH company, in delivering a brand new customer experience to its subscribers.” He added: “After several months of assessment and preparation, we are now confident that all conditions needed for a successful international expansion of Frog Turnkey solution are in place, especially in terms of collaboration with STB manufacturers supporting our solution. We are now in the home stretch before the deployment of our offering, and excited about prospective for development in this new unique market.”

    Beyond European and Latin America markets, Wyplay confirms its strategy of expansion with its Frog Turnkey solution. Launched last September, Frog Turnkey solution incorporates all features required for traditional linear broadcast TV consumption, on-demand contents, applications distributed over the Internet, backend components and a modern user experience. Frog Turnkey aims to bring an attractive digital TV experience to subscribers with an affordable business model and fast deployment model for operators.

    With Frog Turnkey solution, Dish TV’s customers will have access to a complete end-to-end offering from back-end broadcast services to an advanced client managing Live TV, Record, Push VOD and Interactive Applications. 

  • DishTV selects Wyplay to provide middleware and VAS to STBs

    DishTV selects Wyplay to provide middleware and VAS to STBs

    MUMBAI DishTV has selected creator of software solutions for pay-TV operators Wyplay, to provide its Frog Turnkey Middleware and associated class leading value added services on its STBs.

    The DishTV concept has created some excitement amongst the operator community which is struggling for freedom from the monopolistic construct of the pay-TV space. Future solutions’ will be built from top partners’ products while keeping in mind the idea of flexibility, openness and the possibility to evolve without constraints and any E2E lock.

    Speaking on the occasion, DishTV COO VK Gupta said: “Being the pioneer and market leader, DishTV  has selected Wyplay as our future middleware partner. Wyplay will enable DishTV in delivering class leading value added services on both one-way and connected STB’s with its expertise, innovative technologies and a holistic approach to customer engagement that is fully in line with DishTV’s’ driving purpose to  provide ‘Service with a Passion’. This is an ultimate move made towards ensuring customer engagement and satisfaction.”

    Recognized as a global leader in innovative software solutions for TV operators, Wyplay brings its expertise and know-how to the table, in particular through the integration of its browser-based middleware on new generation set-top boxes, the customization of its HTML5 user interface, execution excellence to deliver an easy-to-use and smooth user experience, and improved overall performance in terms of flexibility, fluidity, speed, and responsiveness.
     Wyplay CEO Jacques Bourgninaud, said:  “We are thrilled to partner with DishTV, Asia’s largest DTH company, in delivering a brand new customer experience to its subscribers.” He added: “After several months of assessment and preparation, we are now confident that all conditions needed for a successful international expansion of Frog Turnkey solution are in place, especially in terms of collaboration with STB manufacturers supporting our solution. We are now in the home stretch before the deployment of our offering, and excited about prospective for development in this new unique market.”

    Beyond European and Latin America markets, Wyplay confirms its strategy of expansion with its Frog Turnkey solution. Launched last September, Frog Turnkey solution incorporates all features required for traditional linear broadcast TV consumption, on-demand contents, applications distributed over the Internet, backend components and a modern user experience. Frog Turnkey aims to bring an attractive digital TV experience to subscribers with an affordable business model and fast deployment model for operators.

    With Frog Turnkey solution, Dish TV’s customers will have access to a complete end-to-end offering from back-end broadcast services to an advanced client managing Live TV, Record, Push VOD and Interactive Applications. 

  • Time Warner Cable adds live TV to TWC TV app on Xbox One

    Time Warner Cable adds live TV to TWC TV app on Xbox One

    MUMBAI: Time Warner Cable has added live TV to its TWC TV app on the Xbox One video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.

     

    Time Warner Cable customers with Xbox One consoles will have access to almost 300 live TV channels alongside a selection of 8,000 free and subscription titles from a vast Video On Demand (VOD) catalog.

     

    TWC TV made its debut on the video game system last month, adding Xbox One to a growing stable of devices that includes Apple’s iOS, Android, Xbox 360, Roku and many others.

     

    TWC TV on Xbox One takes advantage of all the benefits of the powerful Xbox One console, smoothly integrating with its interactive features such as Kinect and Snap mode, which enables customers to switch quickly from one entertainment experience to another.

     

    TWC TV is available for download at no additional cost from the Xbox Live apps marketplace for all Xbox Live members in the US. Available content, channels and offerings vary by market and depend on the customer’s underlying video subscription package.

  • IPSOS Study: Watching ‘Live TV’ mainstay, but other forms of viewing catching on

    IPSOS Study: Watching ‘Live TV’ mainstay, but other forms of viewing catching on

    BENGALURU: Though a majority of Indians prefer watching ‘live TV’, other forms of content viewing such as streaming or downloading from a computer, internet TV, etc., are catching up reflect a new online poll of 15,551 adults in 20 countries conducted by Ipsos OTX – the global innovation centre for Ipsos, a global market and opinion research firm.

     

     “With so many new ways to view television programming, it might come as a surprise that 82 per cent of TV watchers in India still watch their shows “live on TV” – that is, on a regular television at the time they are programmed to appear. The indication, then, would be that television is still a prime venue for marketers to advertise,” said Ipsos in India head marketing communication, Biswarup Banerjee.

     

     “That is, of course, unless those couch-comfortable viewers are attached to their remote control devices and start surfing every time commercials come on or if they reach for their mute buttons when commercials are airing. What is clear is that while new televisions are capability-packed, most people watch TV as they are used to watching it – live,” added Banerjee.

     

    Most (82 per cent) Indian respondents who watch TV indicate they usually watch TV programming “live”, although other popular modes of watching are catching on like streaming or downloading from a computer (40 per cent), streaming from the internet to TV (23 per cent), using a DVR or other recording device attached to a TV (16 per cent), and on mobile device (21 per cent) says the study.

     

    Traditional ‘live’ TV watching is significantly more popular among Indian respondent’s ages 50-64 (89 per cent) compared to those 35-49 (88 per cent) and under 35 (76 per cent). Other modes of watching TV programming are more popular among younger respondents: on computer and laptop – under 35 (35 per cent), 35-49 (25 per cent), 50-64 (17 per cent); streaming from the internet – under 35 (20 per cent), 35-49 (16 per cent), 50-64 (11 per cent); on mobile device – under 35 (15 per cent), 35-49 (10 per cent), 50-64 (5 per cent). Using a DVR or other recording device attached to a TV is most popular with those 50-64 (18 per cent) compared to 35-64 (16 per cent) and under 35 (15 per cent).

     

    TV watching across geographies

    Live TV

    Those most likely to choose watching TV programming on live TV are from France (93 per cent), Spain (93 per cent), Germany (92 per cent), Turkey (90 per cent), Argentina (89 per cent), Sweden (89 per cent), and Australia (89 per cent). Those rounding out the middle of the pack are from: Brazil (89 per cent), Italy (89 per cent), South Korea (87 per cent), Great Britain (83 per cent), Mexico (82 per cent), Poland (82 per cent), and India (82 per cent). Those least likely to watch TV programming live are from: Japan (82 per cent), Russia (81 per cent), South Africa (81 per cent), United States (81 per cent), China (80 per cent), and Canada (77 per cent).

     

    TV on computer or laptop

    Watching TV on computer or laptop is chosen most often by those from: China (52 per cent), Russia (43 per cent), Turkey (42 per cent), India (40 per cent), Sweden (35 per cent), South Korea (31 per cent), and Great Britain (29 per cent). Those clustering around the center of the list are from: Poland (27 per cent), South Africa (26 per cent), Canada (26 per cent), Germany (24 per cent), Mexico (24 per cent), Spain (23 per cent), and Brazil (21 per cent). Those from Argentina (20 per cent), the United States (20 per cent), Australia (19 per cent), Italy (17 per cent), Japan (14 per cent) and France (12 per cent) are least likely to watch TV on computer or laptop.

     

    Streaming from the internet

    Streaming from the internet to TV is most popular among those in Turkey (44 per cent), Russia (36 per cent), China (33 per cent), South Korea (25 per cent), India (23 per cent), Sweden (19 per cent), and Great Britain (17 per cent). Those in the middle of the pack are from: Canada (17 per cent), the United States (17 per cent), Brazil (15 per cent), Mexico (13 per cent), Spain (12 per cent), Italy (11 per cent), and Australia (10 per cent). Those from South Africa (9 per cent), Argentina (9 per cent), Poland (7 per cent), Germany (5 per cent), France (5 per cent), and Japan (3 per cent) are least likely to choose streaming from internet to TV.

     

    DVR or other recording devices attached to a TV

    Those who are most likely to use a DVR or other recording devices attached to a TV are from Japan (45 per cent), the United States (40 per cent), Canada (32 per cent), Great Britain (31 per cent), South Africa (27 per cent), and Australia (25 per cent). Those in the middle of the pack are from Poland (18 per cent), India (16 per cent), Germany (11 per cent), France (11 per cent), China (10 per cent), Mexico (9 per cent), and Sweden (8 per cent). Respondents from Turkey (7 per cent), Brazil (7 per cent), Spain (7 per cent), Italy (7 per cent), Argentina (6 per cent), South Korea (5 per cent), and Russia (4 per cent) are least likely to use a DVR or other recording devices.

     

    TV on mobile device

    Watching TV programming on mobile device is most popular among respondents who are from South Korea (26 per cent), China (25 per cent), India (21 per cent), Turkey (20 per cent), Mexico (13 per cent), Great Britain (12 per cent), and Sweden (12 per cent). Those in the middle are from the United States (10 per cent), Australia (9 per cent), Spain (9 per cent), Brazil (8 per cent), Canada (7 per cent), South Africa (7 per cent), and Italy (7 per cent). Least likely to watch TV on mobile device are respondents from Argentina (7 per cent), Japan (6 per cent), Poland (5 per cent), Russia (5 per cent), Germany (4 per cent), and France (4 per cent).

  • Reliance Jio tests 4G network at IIT, Mumbai Techfest

    Reliance Jio tests 4G network at IIT, Mumbai Techfest

    MUMBAI: Very soon, consumers will not even have to remember to record their favourite shows on movies on television for later viewing. With Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (RJIL) testing its 4G network during the IIT Mumbai Techfest by running trials of video calls and Jio television service, Indian market will soon see the technology that eliminates the need for recording content.

     

    RJIL is country’s only pan-India 4G spectrum holder. According to a Press Trust of India report, Jio television has a feature that eliminates the need for recording content. For visitors to get a feel of the technology, RJIL also deployed Wi-Fi network at select locations in the campus. Through this, visitors could experience the benefit of high speed wireless connectivity for hand-held devices over a blend of LTE and Wi-Fi networks.

     

    RJIL also used the fest to demonstrate Live TV and video on demand, with HD viewing experience and 3D TV experience and Ultra HD video experience on its 4G network. Live TV has 16 HD channels and total 101 channels. Video on demand has more than 400 movies.According to the media report, Jio is readying itself for commercial launch and is currently under trial. The company is using the Techfest for conducting trials and also to get a feedback to improve the commercial product.

  • Tata Skys Everywhere TV to go live on Sunday!

    Tata Skys Everywhere TV to go live on Sunday!

    MUMBAI: Tata Sky will change the way you watch television as it goes live with its latest innovation- ‘Everywhere TV’ from Sunday, 27th October, 2013. Currently, available on iOS platforms & soon to be available on Android, Everywhere TV is a unique offering by which Tata Sky subscribers will be able to watch (Live TV) and control (Catch up TV) their television services on the go. Consumers can now choose from a diverse selection of over 50 channels on a single platform instead of downloading and paying for multiple apps offering different channels or services. The excusive offering can be downloaded for free while streaming will be available for an admin fee of just Rs. 60 per month. The application will be accessible on 4G/3G/EDGE/Wi-Fi & broadband services irrespective of the mobile operator used.

  • IFJ urges government to review licence suspension of 2 channels

    NEW DELHI:The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has urged the government to reconsider the summary termination of broadcast permission granted two satellite TV channels – Live India and Jeevan TV.

    While Live India TV was ordered off the air for one month as a penalty for airing a fake “sting” operation wrongly implicating a school-teacher in Delhi in a prostitution racket, the Malayalam channel Jeevan TV was taken of the air for failure to comply with the revised guidelines for satellite uplinking and for airing news programmes without security clearance.

    The IFJ noted that the banning of a channel for an arbitrary period of one month without due process of law serves no public purpose and the government should have waited for the legal process to take its own course against the channel. The IFJ agreed that there may be a case against the channel and a credible case to be made for lawful recompense to the school-teacher who suffered serious trauma and irreparable damage to her reputation on account of the fake “sting” operation.

    Jeevan TV, which has been broadcasting since July 2002, has similarly been ordered off the air without even an appearance of due process.

    “Whatever their motivations, these actions of the Indian government only highlight its continuing failure to enact a credible regulatory framework for the broadcast sector,” said IFJ Asia Pacific director Jacqueline Park.

    “The law must be allowed to run its course in the case of India Live TV and Jeevan TV must be given a fair hearing in an appropriate forum before it is ordered off the air,” Park said.

  • Kingfisher Airlines and DishTV introduce Live TV In-flight

    Kingfisher Airlines and DishTV introduce Live TV In-flight

    MUMBAI: Dishtv and Kingfisher Airlines have joined hands to bring Live TV entertainment for the very first time in the Indian skies. As a part of the tie-up, DTH player DishTV, will demonstrate its services on Kingfisher Airlines.

    The first aircraft empowered by DishTV complete with the Live TV service, will be ready to take-off by the end of December.

    Now on flying with Kingfisher Airlines, guests will be able to keep themselves updated and entertained with critical news or business event, sporting action, Hollywood and Bollywood movies, latest music, and popular sitcoms, with DishTV’s technology of making digital content services available on board, asserts an official release.

    Speaking on the occasion Essel Group chairman Subhash Chandra said, “We are extremely pleased to join hands with Kingfisher Airlines, marking dishtv’s presence and dominance in the Indian skies. This marks a red letter day, yet again in the history of Indian entertainment when we have been able to take TV entertainment to completely unprecedented levels. This reiterates our commitment to not just be the pioneers in the DTH category but as true leaders, continue to innovate and lead from the front, giving the consumer the best he could ever imagine in entertainment, constantly. We look forward to such historical innovations with like minded corporates in the future as well.”

    Kingfisher Airlines Limited chairman and CEO Vijay Mallya added, “Today we take our commitment to take the best of Good Times, one step further for our guests. Our association with DishTV has helped us create yet another path-breaking innovation which will revolutionise the way Indians perceive In-flight Entertainment and we are very proud that dishtv will now enable Live TV onboard every Kingfisher Airlines flight. With the launch of Live TV onboard, we are not re-defining In-flight Entertainment, but creating history”.

    With this alliance, DishTV will now empower Kingfisher Airlines’ Fun TV with 16 Live channels from its platform. Fun TV also has five channels of the broadcasted video content and one moving map channel. In addition guests can enjoy 10 channels of chartbusting music from hip-hop to retro to old Hindi melodies on Kingfisher Radio, adds the release.