BBC iPlayer Reaches 120 Million Programme Requests Per Month

With an eye on sprucing up its video on demand service, Channel 4 is in talks with Red Bee Media over utilising its sophisticated VOD service RedPlayer. The latter already manages the content for Channel 4’s 4oD service...

Popular cable television provider Virgin Media has unveiled the Nokia N8 handset has arrived on its Virgin Mobile network, along with an application for viewing its parent company's video content.The Nokia N8 arrives with a...

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...

Microsoft will launch its MSN Video player tomorrow, nearly seven months after having been announced and launched in the UK as a beta service. More than 1000 hours of video content will be available at launch, a significant...

The National Press Association is clearly unhappy about the launch of a number of news-oriented iPhone Apps by the BBC by April 2010 and this is certainly an opinion that has to be respected. However, they are likely to...

The BBC, with its iPlayer video on demand service, has single-handedly managed to change the way that we view television in just a couple of years. With more than five million unique weekly users - or roughly 8 percent of the UK...

Marks and Spencer will sell television sets that integrate the necessary electronics that allow it to stream iPlayer content, BBC's video on demand service, without the need for an additional unwieldy set top box. The set, called...

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...

Leading transmission firm, Arqiva has finally confirmed that its proposed video on demand service(VOD), based on the collapsed Project Kangaroo, will be referred to as SeeSaw. Arqiva has reportedly already initiated talks with...

BBC Worldwide has announced that it will be partnering with Blinkbox Entertainment Limited to distribute 75 BBC shows including the likes of Planet Earth and Top Gear worldwide. The company which was launched in 2008 managed to...

Sony has confirmed yesterday during the press conference at GamesCom in Cologne, Germany, that it will be offering a Video On Demand service to Playstation 3 Users in Europe. The service will allow owners to download movies from...

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...

After the project Kangaroo debacle that involved some of the media heavyweights, including the BBC, ITV and Channel 4; its partners went on their own ways to fetch something out of the clutter that had consumed them a lot of...

Britain's biggest commercial broadcaster ITV will rename its online video on demand service from "Catch-up TV" to a more catchy name "ITV player" to make it more memorable, à la BBC iPlayer. The service was launched back...