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VR/AR
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Telekom Romania launches catch-up and cloud DVR
Deutsche Telekom-owned Telekom Romania has launched catch-up TV service, cloud-based DVR and home media player…
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DirecTV weighs in to Virtual Reality space with boxing app
US pay TV operator DirecTV has launched its first Virtual Reality (VR) app, designed to…
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Netflix, Hulu and others to launch on Gear VR headset
Netflix and Hulu are among the major content partners that will launch apps for the…
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Facebook introduces 360-degree videos
Facebook has started to roll out 360-degree videos in the service’s News Feed, in an…
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Disney, Sky and ProSiebenSat.1 invest in VR firm Jaunt
Disney has led a new US$65 million (€58 million) funding round in cinematic virtual reality…
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Nos claims world first with VR broadcast of FC Porto vs Benfica
Portuguese cable and pay TV operator Nos has teamed up with Samsung and Sport TV…
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Virtual reality to be ‘much more significant than 3D’, says ARM exec
Virtual reality will play a “much more significant role in the future than 3D”, according…
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Envivio to demo advanced cloud DVR solution
Video processing, delivery, and monetisation firm, Envivio, will demonstrate its latest and most advanced cloud…
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Whitepaper | Making the Business Case for Cloud DVR
Heavy Reading Analyst Alan Breznick examines the chief financial and business benefits of launching a…
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MTV partners with IM360 for VMA virtual reality
MTV in the US has partnered with immersive video firm IM360 to broadcast 360-degree, virtual…
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Ericsson to present ‘internet era of TV’
Ericsson will launch new solutions and services at IBC 2015 that empower customers to “put…
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BBC Earth deals for Belgium and Spain
BBC Worldwide has signed deals to broadcast a branded block of BBC Earth content via…
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Microsoft to launch Xbox One DVR next year
Microsoft is due to launch an over-the-air TV DVR that will plug into its Xbox…
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Freesat and Humax launch new Freetime set-top box
Freesat and Humax have launched a new set-top box that supports the UK free-to-air satellite…
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Motive launches mobile PVR for the US
Technology provider Motive Television has launched a Mobile Personal Video Recorder that it claims to…
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Binge viewing the ‘new norm’, says TiVo
Binge viewing is the “new norm” with full season programme bingeing on the rise, according…
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US cloud DVR subscribers to reach 24 million by 2018
The total number of cloud DVR subscribers in the US will exceed 4.6 million by…
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YouTube adds 360-degree video to Google Cardboard VR initiative
YouTube has added 360-degree video support to parent company Google’s virtual reality offering, Google Cardboard….
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Arris to add TiVo software into set-top boxes
Arris has agreed a partnership with set-top box rival TiVo to integrate TiVo’s software and cloud-based…
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Arris and Akamai partner on IP delivery
Arris has partnered with Akamai to offer the latter’s Aura Licensed Content Delivery Network (LCDN)…
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Facebook opens up videos to the wider web
Facebook is now letting viewers watch and interact with Facebook videos from anywhere on the…
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Sky plans 4K set-top box
UK service provider Sky is reportedly planning to launch a next-generation set-top box in the…
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Half of US non-pay TV subscribers have Netflix
Some 36% of pay TV subscribers and 48% of non-subscribers now subscribe to Netflix, according…
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SVT programming chief quits
Martin Österdahl is exiting his post as programming director of SVT after a short spell…
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Arte makes cross-platform virtual reality show
A new cross media experience about the Arctic region and the impact of global warming…
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ZAP partners with Arris for African nDVR and VoD
Sub-Sahara Lusophone African TV service provider ZAP has partnered with Arris to offer network DVR…
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Opera partners with Viggle on ‘Add-to-DVR’ technology
Opera Mediaworks has partnered with Viggle to create a new mobile ad unit that is…
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MobiTV powering cloud DVR for Deutsche Telekom
Multiscreen TV services firm MobiTV is powering new cloud recording capabilities for Deutsche Telekom’s Entertain…
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Aston debuts first HbbTV 2.0-based push VoD
Aston is launching an HbbTV 1.5-compliant HD DVR set-top box platform that it says will…
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More than 40% of UK and US homes use DVRs
More than 40% of broadband households in the US and UK and over 30% of…