Estonia’s Culture Ministry has brought forward the ASO date by two years to February 2010, citing the experience of other countries in making a quick and painless switch-off rather than […]
Tus Telekom prepares for IPTV
The Slovenian alternative telco Tus Telekom has chosen middleware supplied by Dreampark for its new IPTV service. Tus Telekom claims a market share of almost 20% and posts revenues of […]
Cyfrowy Polsat floatation delayed
The floatation of the Polish DTH platform Cyfrowy Polsat on Warsaw’s Stock Exchange looks likely to be put back from this month to next February or March, according to local […]
HD takes off in Poland
The start of this month has seen a raft of new channels on Poland’s three DTH platforms. They include Nonstop Kino HD on Cyfrowy Polsat and n, bringing the total […]
Nova Cinema boosts distribution
The new Czech film channel Nova Cinema has secured carriage on UPC’s cable network. It will also be added to the operator’s DTH platform UPC Direct in the first quarter […]
Sky Anytime adds third party channels to PC service
Sky has relaunched the PC version of its Sky Anytime on demand service. The collection of first run movies, sports, entertainment and documentaries is being joined by programming from third […]
Setanta scores one million subs
Setanta Sports has passed the one million subscriber mark, adding 200,000 subscribers in the past year, and not including the two million homes that receive the channel as part of […]
Google continues to lead online video market
According to the comScore Video Metrix report for September 2007, nearly 75% of US Internet users watched a video online (including both streaming video and progressive downloads), averaging three hours […]
Nokia predicts surge of Circular Entertainment
Up to a quarter of the entertainment consumed by people in five years time will have been created, edited and shared within their peer circle rather than coming out of […]
18 million digital STBs for Germany
There are about 18 million digital set-top boxes in the German homes, according to estimates of the consumer electronics association Zentralverbandes Elektrotechnik- und Elektronikindustrie (ZVEI). The majority of these are […]