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SES has signed agreements for a further three UHD channels to be launched by the end of the year, and these are in addition to the 4K service already announced for Sky Deutschland and a shopping channel (pearl.tv) scheduled to launch in September.

CEO Karim Michel Sabbagh, in the SES half-year financial statement, said that revenues of €999 million (up 6.4 per cent y-o-y) with profit after tax up 13.9 per cent to €340 million.

However, currency fluctuations (and a strong US dollar) and later-than-expected launch schedule of SES-9 will impact revenues during this upcoming half-year, with (therefore) Full Year growth expectations falling by around -3 per cent (and EBITDA by -3.5%).

Sabbagh said that channel growth on the SES fleet remained strong with HDTV channels growing 13.9 per cent. SES is now carrying 6963 channels in total and 2069 in HD.

Contract backlog is €7.4 billion. The all-important satellite utilisation rate is 72.5 per cent (the same as last year).

But Sabbagh report further problems with some of the SES fleet. Further power degradation was noticed on AMC-15 (fully contracted to EchoStar) and on NSS-6 (five transponders) as well as AMC-8 and AMC-10.

SES has a total of seven new satellites under procurement and scheduled for launch between now (in essence Q4 this year) and H1/2017.

Source : http://advanced-television.com…5-uhd-channels-signed-up/

In a crowded marketplace Project Free TV grew to become one of the most visited streaming indexes around, gaining popularity with fans worldwide through its TV scheduling and discovery features. But after many years' loyal service Project Free TV now displays just one word on its homepage: Goodbye.

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While BitTorrent remains the most used peer-to-peer method of obtaining video content online, for the past several years the availability of cheap bandwidth has provided users with additional options.

Closely associated with sites such as YouTube, streaming is now one of the most popular ways of viewing content. Thanks to a player embedded in a webpage no special skills are required. As a result, streaming sites have popped up all over the web, with a sizable proportion dedicated to copyrighted content.

However, to be really useful all of this content needs to be findable and that’s where sites such as Project Free TV (PFTV) stepped in. Indexing popular content from all around the web, PFTV presented TV and movie content to the masses in an easily navigated interface with hit shows such as Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead just a click away.

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As a result of its attention to detail, comprehensive database and a loyal following, PFTV grew to become one of the most popular sites of its kind. Its popularity attracted the attention of copyright holders too, with Hollywood having the site blocked in the UK during November 2013.

Last evening, however, it all came to an end. Instead of its familiar yellow, orange and purple homepage, PFTV now displays a single word: “Goodbye”

Since Project Free TV had become the go-to place for millions of TV fans, the site’s users were quick to react, with dozens taking to Twitter to express their disappointment.

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But for many it is the site’s content discovery features that will be most missed.

“What I loved about Project Free TV was the aggregating feature of their daily TV show list,” a former user explains.

“While not a complete representation by far it had most of the shows I was interested in and introduced me to many excellent British and Australian shows I did not know of as well as plenty of new shows from the US I wasn’t aware of due to practically not ever seeing commercials for them on broadcast or cable.”

While most people enjoyed the site via its web presence, Project Free TV was also a massive hit with users of Kodi/XBMC. Thanks to a third party plugin located at TVaddons.ag, PFTV’s library could be enjoyed from within the software. Users now experience errors instead.

“It’s sad to see them go, our community is definitely in shock. However, it’s good to see that they closed while still on the top of their game, on their own terms,” a senior developer at TVAddons told TorrentFreak.

“There are a lot of other sites offering similar services and I’m confident that users who were dedicated supporters of Project Free TV will likely find a new home elsewhere in the coming days.”

Users searching for PFTV using Google will already find plenty of sites using the Project Free TV name but most are clones with reduced functionality. At best, those claiming to be the real deal aren’t being straight while others appear to be more interested in serving up malicious advertising than providing a decent service.

Project Free TV’s operator did not respond to our requests for comment.

If i could get a signal i would take this off your hands buddy, this is a ridiculous price

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The UK Government has announced a new proposal to increase the maximum jail term for online piracy from two to ten years. According to the authorities longer prison sentences are needed to deter large-scale and commercial copyright infringement on the Internet.

In an effort to deter online piracy the UK Government is proposing to increase the maximum prison sentence for online copyright infringement to ten years.

The current maximum of two years is not enough to deter infringers, lawmakers argue.

The new proposal follows a suggestion put forward in a study commissioned by the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) earlier this year.

The study concluded that the criminal sanctions for copyright infringement available under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988) could be amended to bring them into line with related offenses, such as counterfeiting.

According to the Government it’s important that online piracy is seen as “no less serious” than offline infringements, and the increased sentence will put both offenses on par.

“By toughening penalties for commercial-scale online offending we are offering greater protections to businesses and sending a clear message to deter criminals,” says Intellectual Property Minister Baroness Neville-Rolfe.

The proposal is being welcomed by copyright holders who have lobbied extensively to increase penalties for online piracy.

“This consultation is very welcome as we feel there is a clear anomaly in the way that online copyright infringement by criminal enterprises is treated by the justice system,” Eddy Leviten, Director General of the Alliance for Intellectual Property, says.

Although targeted at online piracy, casual file-sharers have little to worry about. The new legislation will be targeted at those involved in organized and commercial copyright infringement. This would include operators of large piracy sites, but not their users.

Before going forward with the proposal the Government is seeking input from the public. A consultation launched today invites supporters and opponents of the plan to chime in, which is likely to trigger a heated debate.

The consultation will run until the end of August and the Government will release the individual responses and publish a summary report afterwards.

Following what appears to be a severe penalty, popular torrent site KickassTorrents has become pretty much unfindable in Google. Meanwhile, the top search result in many locations points to a scam site that's serving malware to its visitors. For now, only DuckDuckGo presents the real site as a main result.

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With millions of visitors per day KickassTorrents (KAT) is arguably the most visited torrent site on the Internet, outranking even the notorious Pirate Bay.

After several domain hops KAT has been operating from the KAT.cr domain name for a few months now. However, in recent weeks many infrequent visitors have experienced trouble locating the site, leading to all sorts of problems.

Traditionally, the site has been easy to find through Google by entering the search terms “KickassTorrents” or “Kickass Torrents,” but this is no longer the case.

In fact, the official KAT.cr address is nowhere to be found in the top results. Instead, people see the unknown and unaffiliated Kickasstorrents.eu domain on top in many locations, as the screenshot below shows.

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The KAT team informs us that Google began to penalize its pages a while ago, for reasons unknown. Perhaps there are ways to solve the problems, but the site is currently not doing any search engine optimization (SEO).

“It’s already about five or six months since we started to experience some kind of penalty from Google. The issue is that we were not performing any SEO activities at all,” KAT says.

What makes matters worse is that .eu site which tops Google search results is a scam. It doesn’t offer any torrents but instead prompts visitors to download File_Downloader.exe, which appears to be malware.

The KAT team finds it unfortunate that Google is sending tens of thousands of visitors to a shady site and encourages people to check the official Facebook and Twitter accounts for the latest official domain name.

Interestingly, not all search engines treat KAT the same. In Bing the site’s official domain name is not on top either, but it’s listed on the first page. DuckDuckGo does the best job, identifying the correct domain and even tagging it as an “official site,” which is quite useful to estranged KAT users.

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BT has announced details of its new BT TV Ultra HD package, which includes Europe’s very first live sports Ultra HD (4K) channel, BT Sport Ultra HD, and the company’s new BT TV Ultra HD set top box.

The new channel will launch with its first live broadcast being the FA Community Shield match at Wembley on August 2 between Chelsea and Arsenal followed by the first game of the Barclays Premier League season with Louis Van Gaal’s Manchester United taking on Tottenham Hotspur at Old Trafford on Saturday, August 8. Other live events will be shown throughout the season, including games from the UEFA Champions League, Barclays Premier League, FA Cup, Aviva Premiership Rugby and MotoGP.

According to the telco, the “stunning” picture quality of Ultra HD with four times the detail of HD will be the star of BT’s top TV package, Entertainment Ultra HD. The package includes BT’s new 1TB Ultra HD YouView+ set top box giving 600 SD or 250 HD hours of storage and 47 premium channels including entertainment, documentary and lifestyle channels with 13 in HD and the BT Sport Pack with all of the UEFA Champions League and Europe’s first Ultra HD channel, all for £15 (€21.55)a month. It also comes with a voucher for up to £500 off an LG 4K UHD TV.

Delia Bushell, managing director of BT TV and BT Sport, said: “The best way to watch BT Sport is with BT TV. BT Sport Ultra HD is the next step in high definition TV and provides a truly cinematic viewing experience and is available only on BT TV. The BT Sport Ultra HD channel will bring you closer to the action than ever before. The picture quality is absolutely amazing – it’s four times the detail of today’s high definition TV. We are proud to be innovating and leading the UK TV market with our Entertainment Ultra HD package which offers customers the best in premium TV.”

BT TV’s other packages include Entertainment Plus at £10 a month (with 25 premium entertainment channels) and its great value Starter package, for which there is no monthly charge at all and which comes with catch up TV, BT Sport 1, BT Sport Europe, BT Sport 2, ESPN on BT Sport and the upcoming new AMC drama and movie channel, launching in late August exclusively from BT. Entertainment Ultra HD is a new addition to the BT TV line up – customers will require BT Infinity.

All of BT’s TV packages include the BT Sport Pack free of charge, giving the viewer all of BT Sport’s sporting action including 351 exclusively live UEFA Champions League and Europa League matches, the FA Cup, European Rugby Champions Cup, Barclays Premier League, SPFL, Aviva Premiership, MotoGP and UFC.

Source : http://advanced-television.com…-reveals-ultra-hd-prices/

Last weekend major UK Internet providers added several domain names to the piracy blocklist. The new entries are proxies and mirrors of previously blocked sites including Torrentz and ExtraTorrent. Countering the new measures, ExtraTorrent has already launched a brand new mirror site.

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Over the past several years more than 100 websites have been blocked in the UK for facilitating copyright infringement, and this list is getting longer and longer.

The blocks are somewhat effective, at least in preventing subscribers from accessing the domains directly. However, there are plenty of alternative routes people can use instead.

So called reverse proxies are among the most used workarounds. These websites give people access to the blocked domains and effectively bypass the restrictions put in place by the court.

The media companies who demanded the blockades are not happy with these proxies and they instruct ISPs to add these to the blocklist as well.

Over the past few days several proxies were added, including torrentz-proxy.com, torrentsmirror.com, etproxy.com, extratorrentlive.com and extratorrentonline.com.

As with previous additions the newly blocked domains are covered by the High Court order, which provides copyright holders with the option to continually update the list of infringing domains.

The main domains of both Torrentz and Extratorrent were already blocked in 2013, after the BPI obtained a High Court order. The music group confirmed to TF that the latest blocks were added as an update.

“The High Court has declared that ExtraTorrent and Torrentz are operating unlawfully and infringing copyright. The Court Order which requires ISPs to block the sites also requires BPI to notify the ISPs of changes to the sites,” a BPI spokesperson says.

The BPI could not provide us with more details on which domains were included in this latest update, but it appears that all major proxy and mirror sites are covered.

As expected, the new blocks are only partially effective. ExtraTorrent informs us that they’ve become quite experienced at coming up with new ‘proxies’ and mirrors.

This is not limited to the UK, but also happens in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, China and elsewhere. After the UK blocked the proxies a few days ago traffic dropped, but not for long. A new alternative, etmirror.com, quickly took up the slack.

“The connectivity issues were totally solved after we launched a new mirror. It appears that all UK visitors are able to visit the website now as the traffic is back and still growing,” the ExtraTorrent teams tells TF.

And so the whack-a-mole continues, with copyright holders adding new domains to the blocklists, and site owners hopping from domain to domain.

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The full list of sites to be blocked in the UK is now as follows (not including proxies and mirrors):

Rojadirecta, LiveTV, Drakulastream, Ebookee, LibGen, Freshwap, AvaxHome, Bookfi, Bookre, Freebookspot, popcorntime.io, flixtor.me, popcorn-time.se, isoplex.isohunt.to, watchonlineseries.eu, axxomovies.org, afdah.com, g2g.fm, Bursalagu, Fullsongs, Mega-Search, Mp3 Monkey, Mp3.li, Mp3Bear, MP3Boo, Mp3Clan, Mp3Olimp, MP3s.pl, Mp3soup, Mp3Truck, Musicaddict, My Free MP3, Plixid, RnBXclusive, STAFA Band, watchseries.lt, Stream TV, Watchseries-online, Cucirca, Movie25, watchseries.to, Iwannawatch, Warez BB, Ice Films, Tehparadox, Heroturko, Scene Source,, Rapid Moviez, Iwatchonline, Los Movies, Isohunt, Torrentz.pro, Torrentbutler, IP Torrents, Sumotorrent, Torrent Day, Torrenting, BitSoup, TorrentBytes, Seventorrents, Torrents.fm, Yourbittorrent, Tor Movies , Demonoid, torrent.cd, Vertor, Rar BG, bittorrent.am, btdigg.org, btloft.com, bts.to, limetorrents.com, nowtorrents.com, picktorrent.com, seedpeer.me, torlock.com, torrentbit.net, torrentdb.li, torrentdownload.ws, torrentexpress.net, torrentfunk.com, torrentproject.com, torrentroom.com, torrents.net, torrentus.eu, torrentz.cd, torrentzap.com, vitorrent.org.Megashare, Viooz, Watch32, Zmovie, Solarmovie, Tubeplus, Primewire, Vodly, Watchfreemovies, Project-Free TV, Yify-Torrents, 1337x, Bitsnoop, Extratorrent, Monova, Torrentcrazy, Torrentdownloads, Torrentreactor, Torrentz, Ambp3, Beemp3, Bomb-mp3, Eemp3world, Filecrop, Filestube, Mp3juices, Mp3lemon, Mp3raid, Mp3skull, Newalbumreleases, Rapidlibrary, EZTV, FirstRowSports, Download4all, Movie2K, KickAssTorrents, Fenopy, H33T and The Pirate Bay.

Customers of UK ISP Sky Broadband are being subjected to a new wave of piracy threat letters. The ISP, which is the country's second largest, warned earlier this year that the demands would be forthcoming. Over the past few days they began hitting mailboxes across the UK, as promised.

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Copyright trolls are companies that make a business out of monitoring file-sharing networks for illegal downloads and instead of trying to prevent them, try to cash in instead.

In letters sent to alleged file-sharers, copyright trolls use often complex and threatening language in order to imply something terrible will happen if recipients don’t pay between hundreds of pounds and thousands of dollars to make supposed lawsuits go away.

During September 2014, TorrentFreak became aware of a UK court case titled TCYK LLP v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd. TCYK stands for The Company You Keep and is the title of a film of the same name directed and starring Robert Redford, appearing alongside Susan Sarandon and Shia LeBeouf.

In court, TCYK LLP forced Sky to hand over the names and addresses of subscribers alleged to have downloaded the movie without permission. Earlier this year the ISP warned affected subscribers of what might come next.

“It’s likely that TCYK LLC will contact you directly and may ask you to pay them compensation,” Sky noted.

Sky were correct on both counts. Before the weekend TorrentFreak obtained a copy of the letter now being sent out to Sky subscribers by TCYK. It’s the usual framework of veiled and direct threats, designed to intimidate users into handing over hard cash.

“Our forensic computer analyst has provided us with evidence that on the following UK date and time, [redacted by TF], all or part of the Work was made available from the internet protocol (or IP) address [redacted], specifically for the purpose of downloading by third parties,” the letter reads.

We have redacted the time and date to protect our source but it is noteworthy that the alleged offense was carried out more than two years ago in April 2013.

In a common feature of these claims, TCYK go on to admit that they have no proof that a specific person committed the offense and that they have simply targeted the bill payer instead. They then pressure that person to help them build a case.

“In the event that you were not responsible for the infringing acts outlined above because, for example, another member of your household was the user of the computer, you should make full disclosure to us of the other parties at your residence using your internet connection to make the Work available for download,” TCYK note.

“A failure to make such disclosure may lead to the claim being made against you with the court being asked to conclude, on the balance of probabilities that you were the user of the computer.”

Of course, no subscriber is under any obligation to tell TCYK anything and, as we have pointed out before, if the subscriber didn’t carry out the offense and did not authorize anyone using his connection to do so, he or she is not liable under the Copyright Act.

Also of note is that these days it’s common, considering access for both family and friends, for more than a dozen people to use a residential WiFi. It’s certainly possible (“on the balance of probabilities”) that a court would recognize that too.

Another common feature of UK cases (and upcoming Aussie cases) is that the courts ask trolls not to ask for money in their first letter. TCYK stick to that format but clearly advise that their next letter will contain a demand.

After inviting the letter recipient to confess (or snitch on someone else), TCYK says it will arrive at a settlement figure based on what it gets told.

“We will propose an appropriate figure to you in the subsequent letter after we have received your response to this letter and carefully considered its contents,” TCYK writes.

“It is therefore in your interests to respond to this letter, because a failure to do so may lead the claimant to invite you to pay a figure which is higher than the amount it might ask for if it is persuaded that any unlawful conduct has been inadvertent or minor.”

As always, letter recipients are invited to read the Speculative Invoicing Handbook (pdf) and remain acutely aware that everything revealed to companies like TCYK will be used as leverage against them.

The really wise advice is not to communicate with them at all. UK solicitor Michael Coyle from Lawdit Solicitors is again stepping up to the mark to defend those affected by this latest wave.

“I’ve been sent many emails from people who have received a letter of claim from TCYK. The letters are very similar in format to the letters sent in previous campaigns and once again assume that copyright infringement based on the identity of the person who pays the bill,” Coyle informs TF.

“TCYK has paid £32,000 in respect of Sky’s costs and their solicitors costs so that is a considerable sum to recover in terms of damages from those individuals. My advice is to decline to make a payment as copyright infringement cannot be established on the basis set out in the letter.”

Letter recipients in need of assistance should contact Michael at Lawdit Solicitors. A charitable donation to his fund-raising campaign will secure legal advice.

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I notice FACT have now added it to their news section this morning.....

Police Scotland and FACT take co-ordinated action against alleged TV subscriptions scam

Posted on July 13 2015
A number of addresses in Scotland were searched on Friday (10 July) by officers from Police Scotland, assisted by the Federation Against Copyright Theft, in relation to suspected Intellectual Property crime and fraud.

The search warrants were carried out as part of a multi-agency operation in relation to a wide-spread alleged ‘card sharing’ or ‘control-word sharing’ scam as well as the sale of set-top boxes allowing illegal access to subscription pay TV services, sports content and movies.

Detective Inspector Graeme Everest, Police Scotland, said:

“This was an intelligence led, multi-agency operation between Police Scotland and partners including FACT. Officers have been working on this enquiry for over a year. It relates to alleged intellectual property theft, most notably alleged organised illegal activity and involvement in what is known in the industry as ‘card sharing’ or ‘control-word sharing’ (CWS). This essentially is a method that allows protected encrypted television broadcasts to be viewed without a valid subscription to the broadcast provider.

“For example, these people could offer a £900 a year subscription to one of the major broadcasters for £100 a year. It’s obviously very tempting for people to take the bargain but they must be aware that their money is going towards a fraudulent scheme, and they might well find themselves having a visit from police or other authorities. Money from such activities might well be used to fund other crime, so people need to be aware of that. This is, without doubt, a form of organised crime.

“Industry experts predict that the scale of this type of crime could be costing broadcasters millions of pounds each year.

“From today’s operation, we’ve managed to disrupt a significant crime group. We’ve seized a large amount of computer hardware and technology which will be analysed by our detectives with assistance from FACT. We’ll then report our findings to the Crown Office.

“It is a type of crime that most people would regard as victimless but make no mistake, the amount of money which is being lost by broadcasters is on a large scale, and Police Scotland will continue to work with organisations such as FACT to tackle this type of crime.”

Kieron Sharp, Director General, FACT, added:

“Card-sharing scams and the sale of illegal set top boxes are of great concern to FACT and the companies we represent, especially those for whom a key part of their consumer offering is the provision of subscription television services, such as Sky, Virgin Media and BT. Piracy which involves providing unauthorised access to their services presents a huge risks to these businesses, which make a vital contribution to the broader UK creative industries.

“As today’s action in Scotland demonstrates, we are working in close partnership with our colleagues in law enforcement on addressing these threats and are committed to bringing those responsible to account.”

http://www.fact-uk.org.uk/poli…ed-tv-subscriptions-scam/

Another one for the diary, looks great (if you like this kind of thing)

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Eleven Sports Network will launch the first of its two channels, named Eleven, in Poland on August 2.

According to Satkurier, it will be followed by the second, Eleven Sports, on August 22.

It adds that Eleven will debut with a screening of the Community Shield game, this year between Chelsea and Arsenal, which is traditionally played a week before the start of the Premier League season in England.

Eleven Sports Network has also added the Emirates FA Cup to the rights it has secured for its two channels.

Games from the competition will be shown on Eleven.

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John Petter, CEO of BT’s Consumer Division has called on UK comms regulator Ofcom to broaden the scope of its Digital Communications Review (DCR) to include pay-TV, citing high prices and poor outcomes for consumers arising from a lack of competition in pay-TV.

Speaking to the Broadcasting Press Guild, Petter compared the falling prices, rising speeds and strong international performance in the UK broadband market with the high prices and bad outcomes for consumers suffered by UK pay-TV subscribers.

Welcoming the Review, he suggested it needed to go much further, addressing the UK pay-TV sector, specifically the lack of competition and poor treatment of customers in this sector “This is a long-term problem which the current regulation doesn’t address,” he contended.

He suggested that Sky – the dominant player in the UK pay-TV market with over 64 per cent of the subscribers – had been “very shrewd” in its approach to the Review. “They’ve gone to great lengths to try and keep the focus of Ofcom’s review away from pay-TV They’ve done that by raising concerns abut the UK broadband market; mounting attacks on BT; even calling for us to be broken up.”

He suggested this was “just a diversionary tactic; a smokescreen to distract the regulators and the wider world from the real issue: their dominance in pay-TV.”

He compared the UK broadband market, where there were four large providers, no dominant player; easy consumer switching between providers and a fair, equal and non-discriminatory wholesale market, with pay-TV, describing the contrast as “startling”.

“There we see one dominant player and little competition; restrictive wholesaling by that dominant player; very low levels of switching arising from poor switching processes, and ever-rising prices which were high by international standards.

Noting BT’s entry into the premium sports rights arena had prompted Sky to put its prices up, he suggested that the confidence with which the Sky management had talked about passing some of the increase in what it was paying for sports rights to its customers should give Ofcom “pause for thought”.

He said the contrast between the rhetoric from Sky on broadband with the reality of its position as “a virtually-unregulated monopolist” on TV was shocking. “Sky are clearly hoping the louder they shout on broadband, the harder it will be for Ofcom to hear the cries of distress from UK pay-TV customers.”

Noting that James Murdoch had once called for Sky to have “a level playing field and to have competition policy applied with an even hand”. When it came to competition in pay-TV, the message seemed to be “Talk to the hand. So I’m asking Ofcom to keep Mr Murdoch happy and use the DCR to give the UK a pay-TV market that is competitive and fit for the next decade,” he concluded.

In response, a Sky spokesman suggested the reality was that, in a competitive market, customers were choosing Sky in greater numbers and staying with the broadcaster for longer because of the quality and value that it offered.

“It is strange to hear BT talk about high prices when they are about to increase the price of BT Sport for Sky TV customers by 48 per cent. This looks like an attempt to deflect attention from the real problems that exist in broadband, where consumers are suffering because of BT’s under-investment and there is concern about competition in the future.”

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FilmOn.com, the provider of free Internet TV, has announced a partnership with Indian media conglomerate Zee Entertainment for the launch of a new customised channel that will bring flagship content from India to its 65 million monthly unique users around the globe. Zee Bollyworld TV, a custom-made, HD channel that will show a packed schedule of premium entertainment.

“We are delighted to have reached this unique agreement with India’s most exciting broadcaster, ZEE Entertainment, to share their fantastic content with our audiences on a worldwide basis for the first time,” said Alki David, Founder and CEO of FilmOn Networks. “Zee Bollyworld TV on FilmOn.com will showcase some of the very best programming that India has to offer, including great Bollywood movies, chat shows and top drama. Our new custom-made channel will be available free straight to desktop, tablet or mobile.”

The content on Zee Bollyworld TV will be broadcast in Hindi along with English subtitles, and is available free everywhere.

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German HD platform HD+, a subsidiary of SES, and German TV and satellite technology manufacturer TechniSat have unveiled the first Ultra-HD (UHD) TV with integrated HD+ decryption system (no CI+ module for HD+ required) at the IFA Innovations Media Briefing. HD+ also announced the launch of its UHD demo channel in September.

With this new TechniMedia UHD+, consumers will have easy access to more than 50 HD channels via the HD+ platform as long as they have a valid HD+ card. They will also be able to access HD+’s new UHD demo channel. Currently, HD+ customers access HD+ channels by connecting their TV with an HD+ set-top-box or with a CI+ module.

The TechniMedia UHD+ will be available in the fourth quarter of 2015 in three sizes: 43 inches (109 cm), 49 inches (123 cm) and 55 inches (140 cm). The TechniMedia UHD+ will also boast extensive premium features as well as multi-media integration into the home network and can be controlled through an app.

When launched in September, the HD+ UHD demo channel will broadcast an attractive mix of sports, culture, lifestyle and nature content. Professional industry partners who are keen to test out their Ultra HD content can also contribute to the demo channel.

“With more Ultra HD content being produced, it’s a matter of time before Ultra HD channels are offered in the market. At the same time, consumer electronics must be easy to use and intuitive, hence the reason why we partnered with TechniSat to offer HD+ on a new Ultra HD TV,” said Georges Agnes, Managing Director of Product Development at HD PLUS. “In September, the new HD+ Ultra HD demo channel will broadcast content of our professional partners and also provide producers with the opportunity to broadcast their user-generated content on linear TV.”