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Sky Result 27/01/2016

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

Sky has reported its FY17 H1 results with a consolidated revenues of £6,410 mn ($8,012 mn) and operating profit of £679 mn ($849 mn), resulting in an operating margin of 10.6%. The net profit …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Sky| Vol 24 - Issue 04

Sky To Move Q to OTT

by Bob Raikes

Sky is to move to offering its full TV service over IP for the first time. Up to now, although Sky has offered a limited service (Now TV) over IP only, it has been …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Sky| Vol 24 - Issue 03

Sky Agrees Sale to 21st Century Fox

by Bob Raikes

Sky plc in the UK has agreed to an offer from 21st Century Fox, Inc to acquire the company for a value of £18 billion ($22.9 billion). The company had previously tried to buy …

LG Bundles Sky Q

by Bob Raikes

LG has joined with Sky in the UK to offer a Sky Q Multiscreen subscription for buyers of all of its 2016 OLED TVs as well as the Super UHD UH770, UH850V and UH950V …

Sky Q Adds Mobile App

by Bob Raikes

Sky has expanded its Q Mobile App to allow access to content stored on a home box while the viewer is away from the home. Content can also be downloaded from boxes to smart …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Sky| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 42

Sky Sales Result 14/10/2016

by Bob Raikes

Sky reported results for the first quarter of its financial year, with growth of 5% on a like for like basis and group revenue of £3.1 billion ($3.8 billion), and up 7% overall. The …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Sky| Vol 23 - Issue 41

Sky has made a small investment in Caavo, which was started by a group including a founder of Slingbox, Blake Krikorian (although he has since, unexpectedly died). Other founders came from Echostar and Violet3D …

Tags:Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Sky| Vol 23 - Issue 40

Sky Deutschland to Stop 3D channel

by Bob Raikes

Sky Deutschland has said that it will shut down its 3D channel in mid-2017 as consumers are more interested in UltraHD. Sky in the UK has already closed down its 3D channel.

Sky Q Adds Sports Split Screen

by Bob Raikes

Sky in the UK has a new STB and service that it is calling “Sky Q” and that is based on a gateway, supporting multiple other screens over a home network. Now the company …

Sky Partners with English National Ballet

by Yvette Raikes

Sky has launched a new VR app and has said that it will develop content itself and with partners. One of the first will be Sky Sports: Closer featuring David Beckham. The English National …

Tags:Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| Sky| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 39

UHD Comes to Sky Germany

by Yvette Raikes

As promised, Sky Deutschland’s On Demand service will offer films in UltraHD from this month. These can be downloaded overnight onto the 1TB hard disk on the Sky+ Pro box, which has three times …

Tags:Germany| Large Display Monitor| Sky| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 39

Sky Deutschland launches new OTT platform

by Milos Pavlovic

Sky Deutschland has replaced its Sky Online service with a new OTT video service that is available without a long term contract on a daily, weekly or monthly basis in Germany and Austria. It …