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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“Last month, YouTube announced that it was expanding its “channel” strategy beyond the U.S. by funding video programmers in U.K., Germany and France.
Now add Japan to that list.”
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“In a major alliance with Microsoft, France Telecom’s Orange is delivering its offering of television channels to its customers via the Dailymotion app on the Xbox in France, explains Stephanie Hospital, EVP for Digital in this interview with Beet.TV”
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“Given the success of these and the tens of millions of other amazing channels already out there, we still know there’s more great content to find, follow and fall in love with on YouTube. That’s why today, we’re excited to launch a new generation of original channels coming from France, Germany, the UK and the US.”
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At IBC 2012, httv, the France and Singapore based solutions provider for Digital TV, will showcase the first commercial deployment of its STB turnkey solution: “httvBOX”. Televes, a leading European STB manufacturer, has chosen httv’s httvBOX firmware solution to launch its HbbTV compliant set top box.
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French transmission company TDF and broadcaster France Télévisions have launched a new ‘restart’ service, called Salto, according to Broadband TV News.
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“Some three quarters of connected TV owners across four major markets are connecting their sets to the internet, with connection rates being highest in France, according to a survey by Futuresource Consulting.
Futuresource surveyed 4,000 consumers across the US, UK, France and Germany. The company found that 71% of connected TV owners in France hooked their sets up to the web, with the lowest connection rate across the four countries surveyed being that of the UK, at 56%.”
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“It will start today with the public broadcaster’s daily show C dans l’air transmitted using the HbbTV standard, according to Le Figaro. It will reach up to 2.5 million French viewers.”
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“A report in French newspaper Les Echos has said that Sony is planning to launch hardware based on the Google TV media platform in France in September, suggesting that the manufacturer has slipped on the summer launch it promised back in January. “
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The French telecoms company Orange is bringing its second-screen app TVCheck to the UK this month, PaidContent reports. First launched in France last year, the app has proven quite popular in its home country, where it was downloaded over 100,000 times since its release.
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