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BSkyB’s upcoming internet TV service could create a new ecosystem for pay-per-view and pay-as-you-go TV shows.

Online video reached 34 million UK internet users, representing 80% of the total UK internet audience, in January 2012, according to the comScore Video Metrix service.

Channel 4 is set to launch a new channel 4seven across all major TV platforms later this year, allowing viewers to catch up on popular Channel 4 content from the last seven days.

Apple is due to announce the new iPad at an event in San Francisco at 6pm today (UK time).

iPlayer general manager Daniel Danker has called on consumer electronic manufacturers to “go back to basics”.Speaking at the DTG Summit 2012 in London, the BBC manager said he believes that connected TV can make TV better – but manufacturers need to simplify products and services to make them more TV-like than PC-like.By 2015 he expects… Continue reading iPlayer boss urges manufacturers to simplify connected TVs

Virgin Media has now added red button functionality to its TiVo service, starting with Sky Sports Red Button services.

Although no official announcement has come for YouView’s actual launch date, a speaker at the Digital Media Group’s summit yesterday let slip that it will launch on 14 May.

Speaking at the Morgan Stanley technology, media and telecom conference in San Francisco, Kevin Tsujihara, president of Warner Home Entertainment Group, has reiterated the stance taken by the Chief Executive of parent company Time Warner to persuade consumers to convert physical content into digital files.

The latest video-on-demand service for the UK launched this morning, called KnowHow, which as reported yesterday is intended to allows viewers to watch and buy from a library of films and TV shows directly from their TVs, smart phones, laptops and tablets. So how has launch day been?

New research released from NPD In-Stat forecasts that consumer electronic (CE) “smart” device unit shipments will surpass 92 million in 2016.