Six great shows were part of a single exhibition that attracted 40,660 visitors to Tokyo this June. Content Tokyo was an amalgamation of creation, distribution, licensing, technology, service and marketing in relations to entertainment content. The international event saw 1,371 exhibitors from 19 countries, bringing their latest products and services to one location. As the world of content is changing across all platforms, TV, films, games, books, music, applications, web and mobile have become … [Read more...] about Platform for industry deliberation
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Primetime on Toggle
How has Toggle evolved over time? A lot of changes and enhancements have taken place. We’ve improved our content offerings significantly. What started off as a catch-up TV is providing Live coverage of major sports events today. Last year, we broadcasted the SEA Games and now, we are able to bring the UEFA EURO 2016 tournament to soccer fans. We’re enabling soccer fans to catch the matches Live on a multitude of devices with a direct subscription without first having to subscribe to other … [Read more...] about Primetime on Toggle
Modern Time’s Jorgen
What is Modern Time’s general strategy for Asia? We are both a content producer and distributor in Asia with strong footing in Japan, India, China and a few other countries. We also operate a multi-channel network (MCN) business that we recently launched in Japan, China and India, where we work with Yahoo. Some of the videos you see on Yahoo are produced by us. There are about two thousand journalists around the globe producing more than four hundred videos a day for multiple newspapers. … [Read more...] about Modern Time’s Jorgen
Kiwi channel’s Roger Wyllie
Tell us about your exclusive channel for Asia. We are now available in Indonesia, and within the next 90 days, we’ll be launching in other territories around the region. Rialto Channel, a premium pay-TV channel in New Zealand has been in operation for 17 years on the Sky platform. The other genre including British films, foreign films, documentaries and more. As our factual genre has been very popular, we realise there is a niche for this content in Asia. That’s how Pulse Television was … [Read more...] about Kiwi channel’s Roger Wyllie
The perfect mix of entertainment
What new solution(s) is NAGRA rolling out? intuiTV is an all-in-one solution that integrates almost all our products at NAGRA from the backend technology. It offers a hybrid platform, multi-screen capability, software in the set-top box (OpenTV technology), NAGRA security, EPG capability and more. We aggregated a whole list of meta data on the backend that we bring to the box. It was developed by SmarDTV, a sister company of NAGRA within the Kudelski Group. They’re our providers of set-top … [Read more...] about The perfect mix of entertainment
Seeking the next big thing
Tell us about your new platform. Recently, we’ve done two things with StarHub in Singapore - first, at the beginning of April we launched BBC First, our premium drama service. We decided to launch it as an on demand service rather than as a linear channel. In other parts of the world, we have a BBC First linear channel, for example - in Australia, Belgium and South Africa. We felt that BBC First was more suited as an on-demand service in Asia, as for premium drama such as Sherlock, Luther and … [Read more...] about Seeking the next big thing