Web-delivered content via apps and smart TVs will eventually result in the demise of the set-top box, though rights issues present the main challenge to this shift, according to BT Retail’s director of TV Alex Green.
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Zappware extends Numericable deployment
Numericable has extended the deployment of its Nexx UI design to its operations in Belgium and Luxembourg. Zappware’s Nexx UI design was initially deployed by Numericable in France as part of Numer…
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Italy leads in HbbTV potential
HbbTV take-up could be higher in Italy than any other leading television market in Western Europe by 2015. According to Idate, the number of connected TV households among managed broadcast networks…
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WISI delivers HbbTV over IPTV
The blurring of TV and internet together with the emerging HbbTV services is providing a challenge for the futureproofing of TV headends and next-generation networks. WISI Communications will be de…
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Boxfish Releases TV Discovery and Search API
Boxfish, television discovery startup, released an improved TV discovery app this past week. With the new release, Boxfish decided to make its technology available to third parties via an API. Boxfish allows the use of natural language to search for particular topics currently discussed on TV, or users can find out what is currently most popular on tv.
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Microsoft Eyes OTT Set-Top
Microsoft Corp. may expand beyond the Xbox with a new streaming video set-top box that would compete against Apple TV, Google TV, Roku and other players in the retail market.
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Disney/ABC to launch to live streaming service
Disney/ ABC Television Group is set to launch a new authenticated streaming service, offering full live online access to ABC shows and local market programming for the first time.
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OTT views surpassed IPTV viewers
As we all know well, the TV experience is changing rapidly from a traditional linear TV, to one which is consumer-driven, mobile – to second screen devices
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Apple, Google, Amazon & Netflix in France’s radar with new smartphone/tablet tax
Francois Hollande will receive a report today resulting from nine months of studying how the digital economy can contribute to cultural funding in Fran
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Connected TVs Now Present in Six of Ten US Broadband Households
According to a new analysis by TDG, 56% of all US broadband households have at least one TV connected to the Internet, either directly via smart TVs or indirectly via ancillary devices like game consoles and Blu-ray players.
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