Philip Hunter

OTT is set to reach 83 million devices in Europe by 2015, according to a new report from Rethink TV.

Metadata will figure more prominently than last year at IBC, reflecting its growing importance for search and discovery in a multiscreen world.

The EBU's Eurovision TV Lab Week allowed viewers in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Slovenia to select, via social networks, which TV formats they would like to see on their screens.

As the UK and other European countries move towards universal HD coverage over next five years, the inevitable question is whether and when SD will be switched off.

Sky COO Mike Darcey warns that quality will suffer if content becomes commoditized.

Just when it appeared BSkyB may have lost control over sports rights in the UK because of a European court ruling on foreign satellite decoder usage, a legal loophole has allowed it to hit back hard.

Like DirecTV of the US, Spanish Telco Telefonica has Latin America to thank for strong overall pay TV growth.

The European Union’s digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes has admitted more help is needed for broadcast cloud computing and connected TV.

Broadcasters need secure long lasting funding to meet their public service commitments, the European Broadcast Union (EBU) argues.

Although streaming has overtaken it, rental of DVDs in the UK is still increasing.

China is singled out as a market with greater headroom, more demand and overall more potential.

The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem’s Ultraviolet digital locker is being launched in the UK this month but is meeting resistance from European pay TV operators.

IP brings many advantages over traditional ASI for satellite news gathering, but it also has challenges during migration like a demand for extra bandwidth while both IP and ASI run in parallel.

The Hybrid Broadcast TV (HbbTV) standard continues to gain momentum in Europe as EBU (European Broadcast Union) members agree to collaborate around it.

France Telecom subsidiary GlobeCast is extending fiber to the premises of major operators for global content distribution.

The industry is accepting that 3-D will not take off just yet.

The European Broadcast Union has outlined out 19 principles that it believes will drive down costs and boost quality of experience for consumers of Internet-connected and hybrid TVs.

Viacom and Telefónica are among new European customers for Intelsat’s video neighborhood.

The success of cable operators to boost peak bandwidth per user to 100Mb/s and greater has stimulated fiber investment by telcos in some European countries.