Telkom has launched its Android set-top box, the LIT TVB-100, offering customers who sign up for certain mobile, fixed-wireless and fixed-line broadband connections free streaming music and video streaming from partner providers. And the TVB-100 – which is strangely devoid of any Telkom branding on either the box or in the software
Netflix recently warned price increases are coming for many subscribers in the US and other countries (although reportedly not in South Africa). It’s happening because Netflix has been spending a small fortune to supply homes with entertainment
Apple’s plan to challenge Netflix and Amazon.com in the TV business just got a little bit clearer. The maker of the iPhone and iPad plans to release a remake of Steven Spielberg’s science fiction anthology series Amazing Stories, according
If you’re an actor or producer in Hollywood, it’s hard to miss the flag Netflix has planted in Tinseltown. Its new 14-storey tower is visible for kilometres in sprawling Los Angeles, topped by the company’s red logo. The smell of popcorn
In this episode of TechCentral, Duncan McLeod chats to Ryan Solovei, executive vice president of Econet Media and CEO of Kwesé Play, which has introduced a new streaming media service
Telkom’s zero-rated streaming plans, called LIT, which it plans to introduce on 1 September, may break network neutrality principles and run counter to government’s draft integrated policy for the ICT sector, a reading
Icasa has listed a range of possible market interventions, particularly related to the acquisition and management of sports rights by broadcasters, as it moves to break MultiChoice’s dominance in South Africa’s pay-television
Sony. Netflix. And now, HBO. While the 2014 hacking at Sony Pictures pushed entertainment giants to take computer security more seriously, recent incidents have exposed weaknesses throughout Hollywood’s food chain
Netflix rival Iflix, a video streaming service that focuses on emerging markets in Africa and elsewhere, has secured US$133m (about R1.8bn) in new funding in a round led by US media giant Hearst. The company
Netflix got a wake-up call from Walt Disney. Disney, the world’s biggest entertainment company, said on Tuesday it will stop supplying new Disney- and Pixar-brand movies to Netflix starting in 2019 and launch
