Sky's Murdoch criticises iPlayer, sees it as potent threat

Virgin Media has just announced its Olympics coverage, which will comprise of 24 channels drawn from the BBC, with additional content from Eurosport. Virgin boasts that the coverage will be free, and feature live broadcasts in...

The UK's Open Source Consortium has filed an official complaint against the BBC and its partners in Project Canvas, the joint venture designing a proprietary standard for Internet media players.The Canvas confederacy, which...

Broadcaster BSkyB has agreed a deal with BT to provide its Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 channels to customers of the company's BT Vision on-demand TV service.The BBC reports that the channels will be available for BT Vision...

Virgin Media confirmed its ambition of being a three-screen content player as its executive director of TV and online Alex Green told an audience at the IPTV World Forum that they will embark on an online VoD project. Techradar...

Figures revealed by the BBC regarding its iPlayer service show that the popular video on demand service has shattered all previous records when it comes to TV programme requests. A staggering 1.4 million users on average tuned in...

Sky TV service, which is run by British Sky Broadcasting (BskyB), has opinionated that BBC Trust's 'inherent tension' regarding the 'Project Canvas' digital alliance has lead it to ignore the competition concerns related to the...

Neil Berkett, Virgin Media's Chief Executive Officer, criticised the BBC-led Project Canvas and the poor handling of the whole issue by the BBC Trust, the governing body behind BBC, while speaking at the Cable Congress convention...

Freeview HD is set to debut in the UK within the next five months thanks to the BBC which expects the standard to cover half of the UK population by the time the World Cup starts in South Africa in 2010.Manchester and London will...

BSkyB has lambasted the BBC for using taxpayer’s money to invest into Project Canvas, a proposed joint venture involving some media heavyweights, such as the BBC, BT, ITV, and Five aimed at distributing content...

Ofcom's sixth Communications Market Report highlighted the growing trend of UK homes to consume television content asynchronously using a number of techniques. More TV viewers can choose how, where and when to consume television...

Virgin Media is beefing up its High Definition offering by adding FX, MTV and National Geographic to its lineup which consisted, for now, of the lonely BBC HD channel. The channels will be available for free to XL TV customers at...

The Quarterly report published by Ofcom about Digital progress showed that millions of us have already switched to hard disk based personal video recorders as VHS is finally laid to rest. There are currently more than five...

The BBC could be called upon to play a more prominent role when it comes to investing in UK's next generation broadband network according to the communications minister Lord Carter.  It would not be the first time that a...

Sprucing up its offerings for its iPlayer services, BBC announced that it will be adding new high definition (HD) channel to its renowned on-demand video streaming service sometime around next month. Though there has been no...

Everybody else it seems, apart from the competition commission, agreed that project Kangaroo, the commercial joint venture in the UK VoD market between three of the biggest broadcasters, was going to be a game changer, in a...