Digital TV News: Variety

LG and Rakuten TV launch VOD service in Europe
Sep 25, 2024 – LG and Rakuten TV have launched LG Movies & TV, a VOD service accessible without the need for a subscription and now available on LG TVs across the UK, Germany, Spain and Italy.
News categories: Rakuten TV, LG Electronics, Sidharth Jayant, Chris Jo, Digital TV, Germany, Italy, Smart TV, Spain, Streaming, UK

Warner Bros. Discovery deploys captioning using Google Cloud AI
Sep 24, 2024 – Warner Bros. Discovery and Google Cloud have announced the deployment of an AI-powered captioning solution in the United States that utilizes Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform.
News categories: Google Cloud, Warner Bros. Discovery, Thomas Kurian, Avi Saxena, Big Data, Digital TV, USA, UX

Cignal TV expands service to Android set-tops with Quickplay
Sep 25, 2024 – Cignal TV is using Quickplay's cloud-native, open architecture OTT platform to enhance its Cignal Play service in the Philippines with the launch of the Cignal Play TV Android set-top box.
News categories: Quickplay, Cignal TV, Paul Pastor, Gerard L. Milan, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Middleware, Philippines, Set Top Box, Streaming

Partnership to develop D2M devices for consumer trials in India
Sep 18, 2024 – Saankhya Labs, Free Stream Technologies and Sinclair are collaborating to design and launch a variety of value-for-money mobile phones with augmented Direct-to-Mobile (D2M) broadcast capability.
News categories: Sinclair, Saankhya Labs, FreeStream, Chris Ripley, Parag Naik, Sumeet Nindrajog, ATSC 3, Content Distribution, Digital TV, India, Semiconductor, Smartphone

Engineering and ContentWise partner on RaiPlay personalisation
Sep 19, 2024 – Engineering and ContentWise have developed a content recommendation solution based on the user's browsing history on RaiPlay, RAI's streaming platform, to offer even more personalized content.
News categories: ContentWise, Engineering, RaiPlay, Alessandro Vacca, Guido Porro, Elena Capparelli, Big Data, Digital TV, Italy, Streaming, UX

UKTV joins Freely, the UK's new live and on demand streaming platform
Sep 16, 2024 – Everyone TV has announced that UKTV will bring its on demand service U to new streaming platform, Freely, this month, alongside streamed live channels U&Dave, U&DRAMA, U&W and U&YESTERDAY.
News categories: Everyone TV, UKTV, Jonathan Thompson, Jonathan Newman, Lottie Towler, Digital TV, Smart TV, Streaming, UK

Síminn extends personalisation relationship with XroadMedia
Sep 13, 2024 – Síminn has renewed its relationship with XroadMedia. XroadMedia will now provide its advanced decision engine technology to power targeted ads and FAST channels on Síminn’s platform.
News categories: XroadMedia, Síminn, Adolf Proidl, David Gunnarsson, Advertising, Digital TV, IBC2024, Iceland, IPTV, UX

ACCESS and SmarDTV create integrated 4K puck and content solution
Sep 11, 2024 – ACCESS Europe and SmarDTV have collaborated to integrate the NetRange TV Store and FAST Hub from ACCESS with SmarDTV's Lynx - a compact, 4K streaming puck based on Android.
News categories: ACCESS Europe, SmarDTV, Masahiro Aono, Lionel Boissier, Apps, Digital TV, IBC2024, Set Top Box, Worldwide

Canela Media maximizes personalization with Quickplay
Sep 11, 2024 – Canela Media will use Quickplay's generative AI-driven Curator Assistant to create storefronts and catalog rails that maximize personalization for viewers of its Canela.TV service.
News categories: Quickplay, Canela Media, Paul Pastor, Peter Gonzalez, Big Data, Digital TV, IBC2024, Streaming, USA, UX