OTT and IPTV software solutions firm, Anevia, has appointed former Ericsson executive Eric Baron as a member of its advisory board. Anevia’s board said it selected Baron because of his expertise and leadership in the OTT, media and broadcast markets, and his experience in leading both organic and non-organic growth in tech companies. Baron has […]
IPTV overtook DTH as the second-largest multichannel platform in the world by subscribers after cable TV last year, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence research outfit Kagan. According to Kagan, IPTV grew by 14.3% year-on-year, making the fastest growing of the three major distribution platforms. IPTV accounted for 23.4% of the total market of 1.07 […]
Post Luxembourg’s IPTV offering, PostTV, has added Trace Sports Stars and Trace Urban to is channel line-up. The two premium Trace channels join Post’s ‘Entertain me’ pay TV package, effective this week. “We are delighted to partner with an innovative service such as PostTV to offer two of Trace Group’s most popular channels to its […]
The largest pay TV providers in the US – representing about 95% of the market – lost 415,000 net video subscribers in the second quarter, marking their lowest combined Q2 loss since 2014. This is according to Leichtman Research, which said the subscriber losses incurred by the US operators this year compared to a larger […]
Police in Lublin, Poland arrested three men last week who were charged with illegally distributing pay TV. The men, aged between 30 and 57 years old, were accused of illegally streaming more than 160 TV channels over the web, in a case that was highlighted by the AAPA (Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance). Polish police said the […]
Europol and the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAPA) have helped to dismantle an illegal IPTV streaming business following raids in Cyprus, Bulgaria and Greece. Europol said that four people were arrested and 17 houses searched in a strike against a crime group suspected of hosting a large-scale illegal business, which allegedly distributed Greek, Cypriot and foreign […]
Orange has chosen video technology company Harmonic to provide a live encoding and transcoding platform for IPTV and OTT service delivery. The operator will use Harmonic’s Electra software-based system as a unified solution for delivering IPTV and OTT content to some 6.6 million subscribers in France. “Harmonic’s OTT innovation is unmatched with recent achievements in […]
Huawei and Dolby Laboratories have unveiled what they claim is the first IPTV set-top box to support the Dolby Vision high-dynamic-range (HDR) technology. The Huawei Q22 set-top box will include the same Dolby HDR technology that can be found in cinemas, delivering greater brightness and contrast and a fuller range of colours in the home. […]
Hybrid digital-terrestrial and IP standards outfit the HbbTV Association has finalised and published its IPTV Specification, building on its HbbTV 2 spec. The new specification has been published by ETSI as TS 103 555 and it defines how HbbTV devices such as set-top boxes and TVs can be used with IPTV services. Two distinct types […]
Approximately 6.7 million UK internet users, some 15%, consumed at least one item of online content illegally during the three months prior to March 2017, according to government stats. The UK Intellectual Property Office’s ‘IP Crime and Enforcement Report 2016/17’ claimed that “criminality threatens to implicate millions of ordinary consumers” as the use of set-top […]
