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The U.K. market for online TV will be worth £181 million ($362 million) by 2011 -- but the growth of movie downloads is expected to be much slower. These are the findings of a survey by Screen Digest, which forecasts that music will continue to dominate
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This is the fourth of Ofcom’s annual reports to focus on trends and developments in the UK’s communications market, with the aim of providing a context for decision-making by Ofcom, as well as by commercial and public sector organisations. The communi
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Thinkbox is the television marketing body for the main UK commercial broadcasters - Channel 4, Five, GMTV, ITV, Sky media, Turner Broadcasting and Viacom Brand Solutions. We work with the UK marketing community with a single ambition: to help customers ge
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BBC iPlayer is far more than a standalone application. Later this year, it will become widely accessible across bbc.co.uk, as well as via links from YouTube and a number of other potential distribution partners.
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Over 80% of households in the United Kingdom now receive digital television services. That is over twenty million homes. Most of the growth comes from Freeview. Nearly two million digital terrestrial television receivers were sold in the first quarter of
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Virgin Media, the new name for NTL:Telewest, will launch an interactive cable channel, extend its reach over broadband into non-cable areas and promote its television, telephone and broadband services in stores in an attempt to provide credible competitio
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HBO is launching a subscription video-on-demand service in the U.K., the first time it will be available as a stand-alone branded destination in Blighty.Rolling out this spring, service will be carried by competing British digital platforms Virgin Media,
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The battle to offer services to the digital consumer is fiercely competitive with companies as diverse as Virgin Media, Sky, BT, Orange and Carphone Warehouse offering different "bundles" of TV, broadband and telephony.While Virgin is currently the only c
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Not that this was going to be an issue after Ofcom set the path earlier this month, but BBC Trust gave initial approval to the BBC’s on-demand plans. Under the proposals, viewers will be able to watch popular programs online or download them to a PC up
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Welcome to 4oD With hundreds of hours of TV, films and music to download, you can watch what you want, when you want.
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An announcement from British Sky Broadcasting last week that it had sold more than two million digital video recorders demonstrated the international appeal of a technology that wrests control of television schedules out of the hands of broadcasters and
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17% were already watching on-demand programmes on their television sets. Some 42% of those already viewing video-on-demand reported watching less television as a result. The same percentage believe that traditional television scheduling will no longer ex
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· Broadcaster to use email and net phone technology · Video-sharing website will provide access to YouTube Google is looking to move into television advertising through a tie-up with BSkyB, announced yesterday, that will see the broadcaster use the co
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The initial rollout of the home entertainment service - which combines video-on-demand functionality and Freeview channels - is likely to be low level, with a big push planned for spring next year. IPTV subscribers will reach just 29.5m worldwide in 2010
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BSkyB is rebranding its Sky by Broadband video download service as Sky Anytime and is adding Sky One shows and pay-per-view premium movies to the programming line-up.
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The BBC iPlayer is clearly designed to compete with iTunes and is, in plain terms, a new platform. It is essential that all broadcasters and content providers are given access on a fair and equitable basis to present their content on the iPlayer."
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Freewire TV is a new service from Inuk Networks in the United Kingdom that will deliver broadcast quality television channels over multicast broadband networks, offering multichannel choice to the ‘digitally disenfranchised’ who are currently unable t
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Fame TV hopes to create a TV channel based entirely on user generated content. Unlike regular passive TV, Fame TV allows for interactivity through txt and picture messages from your cell phone and the ability to vote for your favorite content.
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The BT network was simply not designed to deliver video, and does not support multicasting, making it uneconomic to distribute live television channels. For this reason, the BT Vision service will combine broadcast programming delivered over the air throu
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Just over 70% of households in the United Kingdom now receive digital television — a total of 17.7 million homes.Analogue terrestrial reception still accounts for 57% of all television sets, which represents a challenge for digital switchover, or an opp
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The chapter on IPTV begins: “IPTV is streamed television on the Internet.” vs. “the delivery of digital television and other audio and video services over broadband data networks using the same basic protocols that support the internet"
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The BBC has applied to its governors for formal approval to launch a BBC iPlayer to provide its audio and video programming over the internet within in the UK. 7 Tage On Demand Programm aus dem Fernsehen
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On-demand archive programming will account for 25% of all TV viewing in the UK by 2009, a BBC boss has said. BBC will sich ein weiteres Standbein mit der Auswertung seiner Arichve erarbeiten. Besonders der Longtail effekt soll greifen.
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BBC digital budget increase from GBP 250m to GBP 400m and his staff from 850 to 1,500. BBC will das Archiv mit 1.2 Mio/Std Video frei zugänglich machen. Außerdem eine digitale Strategie fahren um mit Google, Microsoft usw mithalten zu können.
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Channel 4 wird seine eigenen Shows per Simulcast im Internet anbieten. Bei den Eingekauften Shows sind die Verhandlungen am laufen. Starten wird der Service mit der klassischen Werbung folgen wird spezielle Onlinewerbung.Außerdem Showdownloads.
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Für £84 Mio haben BT Sky die VoD Rechte für ein PPV der Premiership Fußballspiele gekauft. Die Spiele werden ab 22 Uhr für 50 Studen bereitstehen und können über das BT Vision IPTV angebot empfangen werden.
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Die großen Sender im UK müssen sich mit den unabhängigen Produzenten über eine Onlinevergütung der Inhalte einigen. Die Sender möchten den Zuschauern ein kostenloses Catch-up Recht einräumen dafür muss nun die Abrechnungsgrundlage geschaffen werde
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Sehr ausführlicher Artikel zum aktuellen und zukünfitgen Fernsehverhalten und dem Narrowcasting. Das ganze ist auf England und die BBC zugeschnitten und zeigt Moglichkeiten und Probleme der BBC auf. Außerdem gibt er Einblicke in das Mediensystem des UK
