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LOVEFiLM has launched on Nintendo’s Wii home console with a launch on Nintendo’s new HD home console Wii U to follow shortly, transforming the movie viewing experience for up to eight million UK Wii users who will now be able to select and instantly stream movies and TV shows with a wave of their Wii Remote.

Speaking at London’s Digital TV Summit, Channel 4’s head of VOD, Sarah Milton, revealed that one in three people aged 16-24 in the UK are now registered users of on demand service 4oD.Sarah went on to say the service now has 6 million core registered users and 4-5 million monthly unique users but mobile views… Continue reading One third of 16-24 years old are registered with 4oD

Paul Kane, BSkyB’s head of product research engineering, has revealed that the company is currently monitoring the developments of Ultra-HD and that the technology was a central part of his own R&D role.

ESPN Player, the sports media company’s broadband service across the EMEA region, is extending beyond desktop computers for the first time, launching as an app on Apple iPads.

The results of a new study suggest that brands should invest in online video as it “maps engagement, sharing and purchase behaviours.”

BT Vision has signed a contract with Universal Networks International, the international channels division of NBCUniversal. This will see leading channel brands, Universal Channel, Syfy and E! Entertainment added to its linear line-up, which will launch in the coming weeks.The three channels will be streamed live and, early in 2013, BT Vision customers will also… Continue reading Universal Channel, SYFY and E! Channels to launch on BT Vision

Jon Block, Controller of commercial digital products at ITV introduced a series of new advertising initiatives around ITV and ITV Player at Future of TV Advertising Forum.

The BBC has launched Connected Red Button, reinventing the BBC’s hugely popular red button service for the future by effortlessly bringing TV, radio and online content together in the simplest possible way.

Consumer research from Leichtman Research Group found that 52% of households in the US that subscribe to a multi-channel video service have a Digital Video Recorder (DVR), compared to 4% of TV households that do not subscribe to a multi-channel video service. In addition, 43% of all households with a DVR now have DVR on more than one TV set.

Simon Cox, vice-president and head, Turner Media Innovations, EMEA has said that TV advertising will increasingly be based around content in its own right rather than take the form of the traditional 30-second spot.Speaking at last week’s Future TV Advertising conference in London, Cox said that advertising in the future could increasingly take the form… Continue reading The future of advertising will be content-based