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Virgin Media is successfully delivering internet speeds up to 240 times faster than the national average to triallists in London. Using Virgin Media’s unique cable network, broadband speeds of up to 1.5Gb are being enjoyed around Old Street, an area known as ‘Silicon Roundabout’.

Since Q2 2010, the number of ads delivered in HD has doubled from 10% to 20%, according to a new study from Extreme Reach.

Arqiva’s SeeSaw, the online TV service has been bought by a consortium of investors for more than £10m.

PlayJam social and casual games are now available across Samsung’s Smart TVs and blu-ray players via Samsung Apps.

Virgin Media has launched a Virgin Media TV Guide smartphone app, to allow remote recording on its new TiVo set top box.

Google and Kantar have teamed up for a multi-million pound research project looking with the aim of better understanding online and TV consumption habits in the UK.

Trawling through the tweets from this week’s Consumer Equipment Conference (#CEConference2011) in London, several interesting facts and figures were unearthed:@StrategyEye: Virgin Media CEO expects its on-demand TV player to reach 1bn views in 2011. @dgwbirch: Viewers spend more time watching VoD than ITV1, C4 and C5.@ERTonline: Smart TV has to act more like a PC… Continue reading Consumer Equipment Conference – facts and figures

MediaPost’s VidBlog takes an interesting look this week at the different options facing the US TV viewing public:“In coming years, more and more TV viewers will be doing what I have to do every night when my wife and I contemplate an evening of lean-backness. What’s it gonna cost us this time? Do I rent… Continue reading Choices faced by the US TV viewing population

ITV has now launched its ITV Player app on Apple mobile devices.It is the first UK broadcaster to launch its VoD app on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, with seven days of programming now available to users.This development follows the broadcasters launch last month of the ITV Player app on Google Android.

Virgin Media are striking a deal with Spotify to offer broadband customers discounts on the music service. The deal will start in the next few months, and is the first between Spotify and a UK-based internet service provider (ISP).