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The American subsidiary of Reticare, the Spanish company which produces “screen protectors” for electronic devices, has secured an investment of $3.2 million to fund growth in the USA. The unnamed group of investors are said to specialise in technology companies and in return for the investment will receive ‘a small percentage’ of the company. Reticare’s … Read more
NetRange, a provider of white label Smart TV solutions, says it has finalised an agreement with VoD services company Vonetize to launch global channels on Smart TVs worldwide. Users of NetRange’s Smart TV portals can now access a broad range of Vonetize’s content, including Bollywood Movie Channel, Baby Channel or Total Music Channel, as well … Read more
Sling Media Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corp. (NASDAQ: SATS), today announced the release of the Slingbox® M2 — a new entertainment experience designed to meet the ongoing shift in consumers’ television viewing habits. With the Slingbox M2 bundle, today’s ultra-connected generation will have uncompromised access to their live and recorded home TV … Read more
Netdragon Websoft, a Chinese games developer and operator, has made a $130 million offer for UK-based interactive display vendor and education provider, Promethean. Netdragon’s chairman, Liu Deijan, confirmed the offer last month. Promethean says that the company has been valued at £0.40 ($0.63) per share. Discussions are currently in the early stages, but the bid … Read more
Matrox won a “Best of Show Award” from Sound & Video Contractor Magazine for its Matrox Mura IPX 4K capture and IP encode/decode boards, which were shown at Infocomm 2015.
Netflix has passed 65 million subscribers, adding 3.3 million in Q2 (0.9 million in the US, 2.4 million outside) compared to a forecast of 2.5 million, and almost double the 1.7 million added in Q2 last year. It has plans already in place to launch in Japan in Q3; in Spain, Italy and Portugal in … Read more
I’m just coming to the end of my “vacation”. We enjoyed peaceful and good natured fireworks for the 13th/14th July festivities, but in the area of Normandy that we are staying, fourteen cars were set alight in unrest. Objects were thrown at police in an echo of more serious violence in the area in the … Read more
ZTE, a leading global mobile device maker, today unveiled the ZTE Blade D6 and its first ever smart home gateway, the ZTE SmartHome, at the Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2015. The two devices are on display at ZTE’s stand, located at Booth 20 – Hall 5 at the Shanghai New International Expo Center, alongside a … Read more
It was rumoured in April that Nokia was planning a return to the mobile business (Rumor: Nokia Getting Back into the Phone Business?). Now the company says that it will outsource the manufacturing of any new devices and that the phones are unlikely to be ready until the end of 2016. A spokesman for the … Read more
Digitag said that the DTT platform is the most important television delivery platform in the UK and is used by approximately 75% of households. According to Digital UK, the platform will continue to offer new services and will work towards a successful clearance of the 700 MHz band.
The Association of Commercial Broadcasters and Audiovisual Services in Germany (VPRT) has said that new record figures were achieved in the German Pay TV market. Revenues reached €2.05 billion in Germany, €2.2 billion in the DACH region. The group is forecasting a 7% rise in 2015 to €2.4 billion for the region. The main driver … Read more
For some time now, the TV business in the US has been changing. Discussion of cable/cord cutting or cable/cord shaving (downgrading pay TV service) is affecting all areas of the home entertainment industry. The following chart shows the development of pay TV subscribers in the US since the third quarter of 2014 according to Statista. … Read more
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