Boxee’s Avner Ronen has announced that TV shows and movies streaming instantly from Netflix are now available on the Boxee Box by D-Link in the US and Canada.
Winners of the Deutsche Telekom Interactive TV Award 2011
Deutsche Telekom has announced the winners of the Interactive TV Award 2011 honouring the best ideas for “TV of the future” in two categories. A sports bet application won the […]
Azerbaijan endorses DVB-T roll-out
Azerbaijan has approved a programme of development and introduction of digital television broadcasting system DVB-T, according to the Azerbaijan Business Centre.
Austria’s 3MobileTV goes Android
Austria’s mobile operator 3 has announced that its ‘free’ 3MobileTV service is now available for all Android mobile phones and tablets (versions 1.6 to 2.2).
EchoStar to acquire Hughes Communications
EchoStar Corporation has announced an agreement to acquire all of the outstanding equity of Hughes and its subsidiaries including its main operating subsidiary, Hughes Network Systems, in a transaction valued […]
ARD and ZDF secure five HD transponders
SES Astra has announced that it has concluded a multi-transponder, multi-year agreement with the German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF to secure satellite capacity for the transmission of HD channels. […]
Kabel Deutschland buys Berlin network
Kabel Deutschland has announced it has purchased the Berlin cable network BMH Berlin Mediahaus GmbH (BMH,) serving 60,000 homes in the German capital.
Channel 4 starts unencrypted DTH service
UPDATED 15/2. British broadcaster Channel 4 has started transmitting its HD simulcast unencrypted on Astra at 28.2 degrees East. Channel 4 HD was originally meant to stop its coded broadcasts […]
Fries: “TV Anywhere will be Google TV killer”
CABLE CONGRESS 2011 – LUCERNE. Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries is confident that the new Horizon box offering TV Anywhere will be the Google TV killer the cable industry needs […]
Eredivise Live introduces pub licence
The Dutch premium football channel Eredivise Live has introduced a new subscription model allowing pubs and other public venues such as hotels, gyms and canteens to show the live football […]