Tokyo – Sony movies are to be streamed via the Internet to its latest LCD sets, before their release onto DVD.
Hancock, starring Will Smith, will be the first movie streamed over the Internet to Sony’s LCD sets; service is anticipated in the US this Autumn.
The company also [...]
Seoul – Financial news channel Bloomberg Television has partnered with Korea's Seoul Economic Network (SEN).
SEN, a television news unit of The Korea Times’ sister publication Seoul Economic Daily, will add Korean dubbing and subtitles to major Bloomberg programs and carry them [...]
What have been ABS’s most significant deals and developments in the past 6-12 months?
In the past 12 months, ABS has seen unprecedented growth of our business. We achieved our fill factor from 50% to 90% and increased the amount of television channels available on our satellite [...]
“we have made some notable achievements over the past year. In the area of satellite transponder leasing, we renewed the contracts with several major customers and added new clients from the broadcast sector that successfully expanded the broadcast neighbourhood of our satellite [...]
The launch of MEASAT-3 (M3) allowed MEASAT to support the growth of core DTH customers in Malaysia and Indonesia. In addition, towards the end of 2007 we reached agreement with Antrix, the commercial arm of the ISRO, to support the launch of the Reliance DTH platform in India. Reliance [...]
The recent deployments of PPV and even VOD/SVOD have been primarily driven by platforms looking for competitive advantage, and to reduce subscriber churn.
And as demand for applications surges in the region, emerging technologies such as IPTV and mobile TV are opening up new [...]
There is much talk about the ‘digital dividend’—the potential rewards for governments through spectrum auctions following the closure of analogue TV services. There are also consumer benefits, with the introduction of additional channels, interactive content, better quality pictures [...]
May Yin Oh Senior Director of Business Development for Greater China and India, Qualcomm MediaFLO Technologies.
Mobile television is now a reality in 12 Asia-Pacific countries and consumer demand in Asia is growing faster than the rest of world. ABI Research estimates there will [...]
Singapore - Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) has announced the launch of its mio TV on Mobile service, and brought on international urban music and culture TV channel TRACE to its mio TV IPTV service.
“With Singapore’s high mobile penetration rate and SingTel’s [...]
Hong Kong – The Walt Disney Company’s international TV distribution arm, Disney-ABC International Television (Asia Pacific), has closed a content deal with Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom for current movies and TV series to be made available on Chunghwa’s Multimedia On-Demand (MOD) IPTV [...]