Project Canvas Could Foster Improvements In Fixed Broadband

Project Canvas has been given the green light by the BBC Trust after extensive consultation, the BBC has announced.Canvas is a partnership between the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five, BT and TalkTalk to develop a common internet TV...

There are signs that Sky's just announced Anytime Plus service will be one of the two competitors to the BBC and BT backed video on demand platform, Project Canvas. We've already reported on how a Virgin Media spokesperson let...

One of the most important aspects of the new BBC iPlayer interface, which was demonstrated yesterday by Erik Huggers, the man in charge of future media and technology at the Beeb, is its ability to deliver content from some of...

Conservatives, it seems, will not coerce the BBC into publishing the salaries of its highest paid employees or get them to freeze the TV Licence fee which currently stands at £145.50 per year. Ed Vaizey, the new announced...

The Office of Fair Trading has given its approval to Project Canvas, the name given to the ambitious joint venture from some of the biggest names in telecommunications and media which aims at building an "open internet-connected...

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...

We received a direct message on Twitter yesterday from the entity managing the Twitter account of Project Canvas, the internet, on demand video service that is backed by the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 amongst others, over an article...

Digital TV Group (DTG), an industywide business entity that include the likes of Dixons, Samsung, Sony and Pace and , has approached the BBC Trust to express its "widespread concern" over Project Canvas. The video on demand...

The British Broadcasting Corporation has announced that its popular video on-demand service, iPlayer had breached the 100 million request mark in December last year, a figure which averages 10 requests per broadband user in the...

Channel 4 and Talktalk have confirmed that they will be investing more than £16 million each in the IPTV venture known as Project Canvas and will become the fifth and sixth partners enlisted by the BBC. The corporation,...

Both ITV iPlayer and BBC's popular iPlayer video on demand services will be available on the rapidly growing Freesat Free to air satellite service over the next few months.The managing director of Freesat, Emma Scott, has...

Erik Huggers, Director of Future Media & Technology at the BBC, told an audience at the IBC Conference in Amsterdam that the Beeb will be opening iPlayer to third parties.Huggers confirmed plans to push th concept of...

Channel Five has become the first broadcaster to join Project Canvas, a joint venture from the network operator BT, the BBC and ITV to offer television to broadband connected set top boxes to the living room.The UK broadcaster...

The BBC has issued further details of its ambitious broadband TV venture Project Canvas, following an assertion by the BBC Trust that it would not go ahead with approval procedure without providing more details on the project.The...

A report published by telecommunications watchdog Ofcom is the clearest indication yet that UK could be heading towards a UK broadband sector devoid of the notion of net-neutrality. The fourth edition of the technology research...