New TV? Here’s A Quick Set-Up Guide To Get You Started
So, you hope to get a new HD, 4K UHD or even 8K UHD TV for Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa or what have you, and you can’t wait to set it up to get the best picture possible in the least amount of time. The following…
Testing Begins For Sending NextGen TV Channels Over Cable Systems
Good news for those who can’t (or won’t) use over-the-air TV antennas and aren’t ready to cut the cord — tests have begun for transmitting NextGen TV (ATSC 3.0) signals over cable TV platforms. Broadcasters supporting the ATSC 3.0 Phoenix, Arizona Model Market project for…
Vewd OpX Unveiled For OTT, Linear Pay-TV Integration
Technology to simplify finding and streaming of all-types of OTT content along with linear pay-TV services may soon make its way to your favorite pay-TV set-top box or supporting media streamer. Vewd, an over-the-top streaming platform developer formerly known for its Opera-branded browser family, introduced…
Pandemic Led 8% Of U.S. Homes To Cancel Video Services
Some 8% of U.S. broadband households cancelled at least one paid video service through May of this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and 4% of that cancelled a traditional pay-TV service due primarily to the cancellation of sports programming, research released this week by…
DISH Inks NFL Carriage Deals Just In Time For The Action
Football season has finally arrived and DISH Network crossed the wire in the nick of time, reaching a deal with the National Football League (NFL Media) on a new carriage agreement for the NFL Network and NFL RedZone channels on its DISH satellite TV and…
EVOCA ATSC 3.0 Pay-TV Service Launches In Boise Market Today
A new pay-TV service called EVOCA that leverages the NextGenTV ATSC 3.0 over-the-air (OTA) broadcast TV system kicks off its service with an “Early Access” offer today in the Boise, ID market. The first-of-its-kind ATSC 3.0-based OTA pay-TV service, EVOCA launched with a cost-reduced “early…
Pay-TV’s Top 10 Watched More Subscribers Bolt In Q2
After losing 1.52 million more subscribers in the second quarter of 2020, the top 10 U.S. pay-TV service providers now collectively serve 73.14 million television customers covering 60% of U.S. homes, The update comes by way of the informitv Multiscreen Index as reported this week…
COVID-19 Pushes Streaming Businesses Over The Top
The COVID-19 crisis is intensifying the divide in consumer demand between streaming platforms and traditional pay-TV operations as illustrated by recent diverging reports on the first half performances of over-the-top content provider Netflix, and the second quarter financial of pay-TV conglomerate AT&T. This week, AT&T…
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