About 50% consumers prefer smart television sets for watching content at home, while 36% prefer mobile devices. About 84% households have more than one person watching connected TVs (CTV) while 64% users claim to prefer watching CTV together with their families, unlike solo viewing experience.
Multiplexes should refrain from any restraint on trade in exhibition that may impinge on producers’ freedom of trade, the Competition Commisssion of India (CCI) said Friday, while highlighting the importance of self-regulation.
Telecom operators ET spoke with said that while a substantive portion of voice calls is via OTT, it is difficult to quantify in percentage terms, as all happens over data sessions, which can be measured in bytes and not minutes
Sites like The Pirate Bay are recognized for their unique branding but in today's pirate streaming sector, individuality can mean copying a successful site and buying the closest possible domain. Countering ISP blocking is a driving force but opportunists are also putting Coke labels on cheap, generic cola. Thanks to the High Court in London, pirating other pirates ends in site blocking
Billion-dollar entertainment industry companies often complain about widespread copyright infringement. However, some independent creators deal with similar problems on their own. Extreme weather photographer Brandon Clement faces hundreds of thousands of rip-offs on Facebook, YouTube, and elsewhere, leading to billions of misappropriated views.
The coming together of Culvert Max Entertainment (formerly Sony Pictures Networks India) and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) is unlikely to have any major ramifications for the pay-TV industry, which is facing the dual challenge of a shrinking universe and a decline in Average Revenue Per User (ARPU), industry experts shared.
So far, since its launch in 2020, the app has been available only to Tata Play subscribers and has around one million paid subscribers, said Harit Nagpal, MD & CEO, Tata Play.
Multiplexes chain company, PVR on Wednesday received shareholders' approval for a merger with rival Inox Leisure. In March, PVR and the Inox Leisure board of directors approved a share swap amalgamation scheme where Inox will merge with PVR. In a meeting held on October 11, PVR sought equity shareholders' approval for the Inox merger.
TV content globally accounted for 46.6 percent of all traffic to piracy websites amongst various media sectors and, interestingly, India was placed at No. 3, after the US and the Russian Federation, amongst countries having high incidences of content piracy, according to a new report by data company MUSO.
The Motion Picture Association has provided a fresh overview of global pirate site-blocking efforts, which now span over 20,000 sites. Blocking measures have expanded to 39 countries in recent years, with the United States remaining the key absentee. The lack of US participation is partly due to a shortcoming in US copyright law, which lacks a carve-out for no-fault injunctions.