BBC yesterday announced the launch of a new Media Player app to replace its old iPlayer, which will be made available on Android smartphones and tablets as of next week. The BBC Media Player has been developed in response to Adobe’s decision to remove its Flash Player app from the Google Play store, and will ensure that Android users can ... Read More »

Despite previous statements from the likes of Samsung and LG Electronics to the contrary, it appears that the mass production of OLED TV sets is still some way off, with panel makers beginning to shift their focus to 4K LCD TVs instead. 4K LCD TVs to reach mass market before OLED TV? OLED TVs have been hailed as the greatest ... Read More »

Virgin Media has dropped the FilmFlex brand, relaunching its pay-per-view (PPV) movie on-demand platform as Virgin Movies. Virgin Media rebrands on-demand PPV movies service With over 500 films and counting, Virgin Movies is one of the UK’s largest and most popular on-demand PPV services, offering dozens of top titles straight from the cinema screen, including Battleship, The Hunger Games and ... Read More »

British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) has announced a major deal that will see linear and catch-up TV content from Channel 4’s 4oD service made available on all of its main viewing platforms early next year, with C4 gaining access to the digital satellite television provider’s customer data in return. BSkyB & Channel 4 ink deal for 4oD, Sky Go & Film4 ... Read More »

Ask any sports fan and they’ll tell you that they have a love/hate relationship with live streaming. Most of the time, live streaming works like a charm, but there’s always that odd occasion when things don’t quite work out how they should. BBC testing adaptive streaming algorithms for iPlayer Unfortunately, that odd occasion always seems to be in a match ... Read More »