Holland’s largest cable operator Ziggo has started to make some of its set top boxes interactive.
US TV stations go social
08.14 Europe/London, November 21, 2011 By
Ten television broadcast groups with stations in markets covering 76 million US households have announced a long-term commercial partnership with Silicon Valley-based start-up ConnecTV.
Eutelsat launches KabelKiosk Choice
07.26 Europe/London, October 20, 2011 By
Eutelsat will start marketing KabelKiosk Choice, its new VOD service using the HbbTV hybrid standard, in January 2012.
De Telegraaf launches interactive TV app
06.50 Europe/London, October 20, 2011 By
Holland’s largest newspaper De Telegraaf has launched an interactive TV app on the Glashart Media FTTH networks. The app provides a mix of news, background articles, pictures and videos.
Magyar Telekom plans hybrid platform
21.21 Europe/London, October 11, 2011 By
IP&TV Forum EurAsiaEastEurope 2011 – ISTANBUL. Magyar Telekom has room to grow with interactivity and “needs technology to expand its reach.”
S&T and FourthWall Media to partner
10.28 Europe/London, September 15, 2011 By
Strategy & Technology (S&T) has announced its partnership with FourthWall Media to integrate key features of each company’s EBIF tools.
HD+ goes hybrid and interactive with HbbTV
10.09 Europe/London, August 18, 2011 By
New receivers for the German HD+ platform on Astra will be equipped with the HD InterActive feature from NetRange MMH using the HbbTV standard. The first internet-enabled receivers should already be introduced to the market by manufacturers in 2011.
Amazon buys Pushbutton
11.50 Europe/London, July 28, 2011 By
Push Button Holdings Ltd, which develops interactive applications for connected TV, has been acquired by Amazon.
Spanish broadcasters press for HBBtv
09.41 Europe/London, June 3, 2011 By
Representatives of public broadcaster RTVE and the commercial Antena 3 Group, along with Nagravision, Havas Media and Vodafone, have told the second annual conference of the Spanish interactive television association AEDETI of the imperative of adopting a single interactive TV standard.
A tale of two VOD services
13.29 Europe/London, May 4, 2011 By
ANGA CABLE 2011 – COLOGNE. Maxdome, Germany’s largest VOD portal, is asking questions about the creation of a commercial run on demand service by public broadcasters.
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