
Hulu is reported to be moving from its current free model to one that binds in viewers to a pay-TV subscription.
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Hulu is reported to be moving from its current free model to one that binds in viewers to a pay-TV subscription.

French public broadcaster France Televisions is to expand its catch-up service Pluzz with the introduction of a VOD service.
The Lithuanian incumbent telco TEO LT will soon put forward proposals that will allow its pay-TV subscribers to benefit from state subsidies for reception equipment.

Central European Media Enterprises (CME) had a difficult first quarter, its net revenues of $167,433,000 (€126,493,000) being 3.1% lower than in the same period last year.

UK ISPs have been ordered to block file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, the High Court has ruled. Sky Broadband, Virgin Media, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk and O2 are now required to prevent their subscribers from gaining access to the site.
The Croatian alternative telco Optima Telekom ended the first quarter with 17,500 subscribers to its OptiTV television service, distributed through the company’s own LLU network.
The most recent non-proprietary video compression standard, High-Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC), also known as H.265, was placed into final draft for ratification in January 2013 and is expected to become the video standard of choice for the next decade. … [Read More...]
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