Vodafone has reported an overwhelming take-up for their mobile TV service, launched last year with BskyB. Sky Mobile TV, which is streamed straight to mobiles so doesn’t need to be downloaded, has signed up over 100,000 subscribers, and now experiences more than 70,000 streams per day. Speaking to delegates at MEM2006, the annual Mobile Entertainment… Continue reading TV To Go

Digital Cinema is to be rolled out on a wide scale from 2007 in a bid to maintain the experience gap between cinema and home entertainment systems such as HDTV, according to the latest report from Screen Digest. During the second half of 2005, following on from the release of the technical specification for d-cinema,… Continue reading Digital Cinema Rollout Edges Nearer

Sony USA is currently producing 750,000 Blu-ray DVDs every month, with production expected to rise to over five million discs per month by October of this year. The increase will be made possible by the adding of more production lines to the three already in existence, which have a capacity of 25,000 single-layer 25GB Blu-ray… Continue reading Sony Blu-ray Production Grows

In the four weeks ending May 20, older people, or ‘silver surfers’, made up 15.7% of visits to all categories of website, according to the latest analysis from Hitwise UK, the online competitive intelligence service. Silver surfers – people aged 55 or over – were attracted most to Google, followed by MSN Hotmail and then… Continue reading Favourite Websites Of The Silver Surfers

The UK has been named the most digital country in Western Europe, in research by Informa Telecoms & Media. The Converging Media (CM) Index, published quarterly by Informa, gives the UK an index of 30.5 at ther end of 2005, compared to second place Finland’s 23.1. Steve Mullins, editor of Informa Telecoms & Media’s research… Continue reading UK Named Most Digital Country In Western Europe

Active home internet users dropped by about 0.5% over April, according to a report by Nielsen//NetRatings, which follows on from the 2.2% increase recorded in March. The decline was blamed on a drop of about 1.8 million home internet users in Germany, Australia, Brazil, Spain and the U.S.A. Germany recorded a 2.5% drop between March… Continue reading Internet User Numbers Decrease in April

Advertising has become big business in the video game world, with some market analysts predicting that in-game advertising could be worth up to £2 billion by 2010. However, it is uncertain to what extent gamers are influenced by ads in games. Previously, advertising and games went together more through ‘advergaming’ where a game was designed… Continue reading In-Game Ads Look Appetising For Advertisers

GCap has reported a fall in profits with annual pre-tax revenue to the end of March down 40% to £22.2 million. On a statutory basis, including the effect of amortisation and other charges, the company made a loss before tax of £47.9 million. One of the main reasons for the slump is said to be… Continue reading Revamp Renders GCap Profits Down

Media group Emap has announced a 9% rise in pre-tax profits to £223 million for the year ending March 2005. Underlying revenues were up 8% to £1.154 million. Performance varied across Emap’s different divisions. Within the UK consumer magazine sector, underlying revenue rose by 3% (or 7% including new launches). Weekly titles, such as new… Continue reading Revenue Rise For Emap

UK ISP Wanadoo will become Orange in a re-branding exercise by France Telecom costing an estimated £130 million. As part of the plan to homogenise the brand, there will be advertising campaigns across the media platforms to say goodbye to Wanadoo and welcome Orange. Three variants of the ads have been created to market the… Continue reading Wanadoo Makes Way For Orange