Tuesday, December 31, 2013

News Digest TV market: 16 - December 31 - proIT - the world of IT technology

Telekompalata Ukraine estimates the number of subscribers of pay-TV providers. Proposed count indicates the number of subscribers has previously published in the media and expanded indicators available to the marketing departments of member companies Telekompalaty, experts, as well as the data of SSC. In the 33 largest cities of Ukraine TPU counted 3,188,605 pay TV subscribers. More results from studies TPU can be found here.

Between 1 to November 8 five channels have entered into agreements with “Zeonbud” the operator’s services digital network in 2013, totaling 21.48 million UAH. Since the beginning of this year, similar agreements entered into more than 30 public television stations, local and municipal OGTRK dispenser. The total value of contracts amounted to 66.94 mln. The most expensive services “Zeonbud” cost “Banking television”, created by the National Bank of Ukraine – 29.11 mln.

December 18 machine Verkhovna Rada has registered a draft law “On the State Budget of Ukraine for 2014″. In it, among other things, the Cabinet of Ministers proposes to allocate 685 959 000 hryvnia on the production and broadcasting of television and radio programs for public use. According to the explanatory memorandum, the funds proposed for the production and broadcasting of television and radio programs for public use, collection, processing and dissemination of official information products, the establishment and functioning of Ukrainian-language version of the international channel EuroNews.

This project is not further stipulates that funding the State program on population receivers in standard DVB-T2. Earlier, the State Committee reported that implementation of this program requires about 300 million UAH. Also there is no article of payment BRT Concern, “Ukrtelecom” and provider of digital multiplexes LLC “Zeonbud” by broadcasting public service broadcasters. The projected amount of such expenses – 171 mln. At the moment, the state debt to pay for such services is 60 mln.

December 18 at the meeting of the National Council for Television and Radio channel Latvian OE received a license for satellite broadcasting. Director and owner of the channel decided to completely transfer their business in Ukraine, the company now transports from Riga and Latvian studio employees. The company explains that they decided to change the country due to tighter conditions for doing business in the Baltic States and expect to win over audiences, including subscribers of cable networks. In the broadcast channel will be released after January 5 broadcast will be broadcast in six countries of the CIS and Baltic countries.

December 20 Verkhovna Rada Committee on Freedom of expression and information voted for the draft resolution on no confidence in the members of the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting, elected by the Verkhovna Rada. Most members supported the resolution “On the Repeal of regulations of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine” On appointment Fartushny, Opilat, Baranova and St. George members of the National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting. ” In a memorandum decision Knyazhytskyy initiators and justify the need Miroshnichenko release of four members of the National Council of improper performance of duties and implementation of custom power solutions with respect to the independent media.

told December 24 CEO “VETEK Media” Yuri Rivne, next year plans to launch interactive project Forbes-TV. The channel will be a continuation of printed and online versions of Forbes and will cover all what the magazine writes. Its content will consist of video stories about business, lifestyle, technology, celebrities, investment and so on.

company “Ukrtelecom” introduced for subscribers “OGO” service “OGO! TV ». The service provides access to watch TV channels, movies and video licensing, sports and other events and programs from a library of legal content on a specially created resource – ogo.oll.tv. The service is provided in conjunction with the video service oll.tv.

December 23 on the coding system EXSET, which provides protection and watching TV Lybyd TV sharinga protection enabled. According to the company is the first case in Ukraine, where the operator has afflicted pirates spreading sharinga, that its channels are no longer available for illegal viewing using this technology.

Russian First Channel and the group “RIA Novosti”, the national agency host the Olympic Games Sochi 2014, launching a new mobile service “second screen.” The project created a special application of the First Channel for mobile devices on the basis of editorial content and “RIA Novosti”. The application allows text online broadcasts of sporting events on the users’ mobile devices. It will complement the live television and via the news, background information and images “RIA Novosti”. The new service will be available to anyone who has Internet access. The user will be notified of the impending start of the live broadcast, in which through the mobile app he can get information on a specific sport.

December 15 «Tricolor TV” registered the 10 millionth paying subscriber. Thus, the Russian operator become Europe’s largest satellite TV provider, not only on the total number of subscribers (13,995 million), but also on the number of paying subscribers. According to the British analytical agency IHS Screen Digest, this parameter of the three European leaders also include BSkyB and Sky Italia with 9.8 and 4.8 million subscribers respectively. Among the factors in achieving record results, the company calls high quality broadcasting 26 channels of the First HD-multiplex “Tricolor TV” available to almost 3 million owners of HD-equipment. Another driver of growth in the number of connections is second DV-multiplex “Tricolor TV”, which includes 18 major Russian TV channels in an improved quality of broadcast.

Polish «Gazeta Wyborcza», referring to the study TNS Polska reports that during the transition to digital broadcasting 30% of the audience decided to choose a platform that is different from DTT. Most of them chose to pay DTH-platform. The transition of the Polish air television from analog to digital standards was completed in July this year. Only 2% of Polish households watching unscrambled channels by satellite.

December 27 has learned that nine major holders prepared lawsuits against the largest Russian network “VKontakte” and plan to submit them after the holidays. As a result of the network may disappear over six thousand pieces of music artists such as Madonna, Linkin Park, Metallica, Beyonce, Bianca, “Spleen”, DDT, Zemfira, “Animals”, Pavarotti, Celentano, etc.

In space

sent two HD-camera meant for broadcasting detailed views of Earth from the International Space Station. The camcorder will allow to observe objects and objects up to a car or boat, as well as small groups of people. Many of the images obtained from space will be available for free viewing online, after only a few hours after they were taken. The camcorder is controlled and for a fee, customers can use it to look at a certain point of the Earth. The company expects that its customers will be among the government, NGOs and corporations, which may be required by the image of certain areas of the planet.

Sony officially launched its online video service by sending viewers movies UltraHD resolution. At the moment the service is only available in the U.S., a network drive with built-in hard drive was available for $ 699 and rent for viewing one or more films. 4K film for $ 7.99 you can watch for 24 hours, after which the film will nedostupent for viewing. Buy movie downloading to disk will cost $ 29,99.

became known that Amazon is going to make their original 4K TV format, also known as the UltraHD. Early next year, the company will launch 11 pilot episodes, including “Mozart in the Jungle,” “Once” and “Bosch”. at the moment neither Amazon Instant Video, nor LOVEFiLM – streaming media company with video on demand to the UK and Germany – do not support video transmission 4K/Ultra HD. The company’s website says that it plans to introduce this option to its subscribers in the next year.

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