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Amazon Adds Channels in Three Countries

by Bob Raikes

Amazon has started a ‘Channels’ service for live TV to its Prime platform in the UK, Germany and Austria. The á la carte service allows individual channels to be added and include Discovery, Eurosport …

Subscription Video Spending Will Rise by 78% by 2020

by Yvette Raikes

Consumer spending on home video in Western Europe will increase year by year, so that by 2020 it will be €8.7 billion ($9.7 billion), according to research from IHS Markit. The three top markets …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| SVOD| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Q1 2017 Sees 410,000 Drop in US Pay-TV Subscribers

by Yvette Raikes

The biggest pay-TV providers in the USA lost around 410,000 net video subscribers in Q1 2017, according to analysts Leichtman Research. In the same quarter last year, they added 10,000 subscribers. The top six …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 20

OTT Content Available Throughout EU

by Yvette Raikes

When visiting another EU country, citizens often cannot access content paid for in their own country. Under new rules, approved by the European Parliament last week, restrictions will been removed and online subscription content …

By 2021, SVOD Will Overtake Pay-TV

by Yvette Raikes

Pay TV users in W Europe and N America will be outnumbered by Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD) subscribers by 2021, according to Ampere Analysis, as reported by Digital TV Europe, after a talk …

NexGuard’s Watermarking Used in Hospitality

by Yvette Raikes

Watermarking technology company NexGuard has developed an OTT VOD app for the hospitality sector. Sonifi is using its forensic solution to embed a robust invisible watermark in content delivery of films to hotel guests. …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Security| Vol 24 - Issue 18

Pay-TV to Represent 90% of Global Video Media Services in 2017

by Alan Spencer

Gartner is predicting that global spending on consumer video media services will total $314 billion in 2017, which is a 4.2% rise compared to 2016. Pay-TV services will be the largest spending segment and …

Tags:Gartner| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 24 - Issue 18

Western Europe to Exceed 100 million pay-TV Subscribers in June

by Alan Spencer

Western Europe still has over 100 million pay-TV subscribers, and this number will rise until 2022 despite the rise in OTT services. This is according to the Western Europe Pay TV Forecasts report from …

O2 Czech Sees Quarter Rise in TV Subscribers

by Alan Spencer

O2 Czech has ended the first quarter of 2017 with 222,000 TV subscribers for its IPTV and OTT service, which is a rise of 5% compared to the same quarter of 2016. There were …

Intel and NeuLion Enable Secure, 4K UHD Sports Streaming

by Alan Spencer

As consumer demand for higher quality video grows for live sports and movies, 4K UHD resolution becomes more important, Intel believes. Using 7th generation Intel core processors and Intel software guard extensions (SGX) will …

Russian Pay-TV Suffers Quarter Drop

by Alan Spencer

Russia’s pay-TV market added 180,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2017, which was the lowest growth rate in five years. Kommersan, a Russian daily newspaper, quoted figures produced by TelecomDaily, indicating that the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| Russia| Vol 24 - Issue 16

UHD Forum Issues Forensic Watermarking Guidelines

by Alan Spencer

The Ultra HD Forum has issued its latest guidelines, “UHD Forum Guidelines version 1.3” which includes a new chapter on forensic watermarking. The new guidelines are as a result of a collaboration between leading …