Latest articles by Philip Hunter
Liberty Global in no rush to monetize multi-screen
Liberty Global CEO Michael Fries has urged his European cable operators to make the multi-screen experience compelling before trying to make money from it.
European Union promises more help for content and connected TV
The European Union’s digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes has admitted more help is needed for broadcast cloud computing and connected TV.
UK companies reach deal on common file format
The European Broadcast Union’s core metadata standard provided the basis for the UK’s new file format.
EBU gets even more serious about HbbTV
The European Broadcast Union (EBU) will provide a free platform for its members to deploy HbbTV services during the 2012 London Olympics and Eurovision Song Contest.
European OTT rush lacks direction
OTT is set to reach 83 million devices in Europe by 2015, according to a new report from Rethink TV.
Sky launches UK Internet service for new customers
The launch by Sky in the UK of an online TV service for non-existing customers heralds a new era of competition for OT T services in Europe following the arrival of Netflix.
EBU gets behind global terrestrial broadcasting initiative
The Union played the lead role in founding FOBTV.
European commercial broadcasters reach €15 billion content spent
European commercial broadcasters spent €15.1 billion on content in 2010, the last year of measurement on program spending.
GlobeCast goes over the top to the world
French broadcast infrastructure and services company GlobeCast announced at NAB the July 1 launch for the Americas of its OTT service MyGlobeTV.
Content portability and service interoperability key for OTT
OTT needs standards like never before to deliver the promised service diversity and flexibility.
Sky to spend $1 billion on UK films by 2014
Sky has made a long term commitment to investment in UK content by setting up a fund for British film making that will reach £600 million (almost $1 billion) by 2014.
HbbTV embraces MPEG DASH
The European HbbTV hybrid TV standard has incorporated support for HTTP adaptive streaming based on the recently published MPEG-DASH specification in its latest version.
France probes 2006 merger between TPS and Canal Satellite
France’s competition commission has decided to make a detailed examination of the 2006 merger between DTH operators TPS and Canal Satellite.
European HD channels boom
The number of HD channels in Europe increased by 198 during 2011 despite the economic crisis.
Eutelsat injects interactivity into head end in the sky
Eutelsat’s KabelKiosk platform, which serves cable operators in Germany and neighboring countries, is adding an HbbTV-based interactive portal.
New ISO standard steps towards automatic metadata
The dream of automatic metadata generation from Audio Visual content has come a step closer.
VOD advertising held back by poor quality control
VOD advertising workflows and quality control fail to meet the challenges of on demand video advertizing according to report.
ITV pioneers smartphone interactive ads
UK Free To Air commercial broadcaster ITV is broadcasting adverts enabled by interactive technology from London-based Shazam.
Europe’s pay TV numbers reflect diverging economies
Most of Europe has registered growth in pay TV subscriptions early in 2012, but not Italy and Spain.
