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Tanishq, Disney+Hotstar join hands to celebrate real brides

With the onset of the big fat Indian wedding season, one of India’s largest retail jewellery brands Tanishq from the Tata group and streamer Disney+ Hotstar, have come together to bring an all-new show, ‘The Great Indian Bride’. The happily-ever-after series featuring five real brides has been conceptualised and created by

Netflix announces line-up for 53rd Indian film fest IFFI

Netflix will exclusively introduce some of its most anticipated global and local stories at the 53rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI), which will take place in Goa from November 20 to 28. Netflix will present global premieres, exciting sneak peek...

OTTplay clocks 9.5 mn users

OTTplay, an AI-powered OTT recommendation and content discovery platform, has over 9.5 million users. With this achievement, OTTplay has established itself as a category leader. The platform recommends content from its extensi...

Vodafone Portugal offers Disney+

Disney+, an SVoD service, is now available on Vodafone Portugal's latest generation set-top boxes, the VboxPro 4K, allowing subscribers to watch titles from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic and Star. Voda...

Eros Now ropes in Logituit for OTT media solutions

For a better watching experience on its over-the-top (OTT) platform, Eros Now has selected Logituit to develop and integrate media solutions. According to a press release, Logituit will design and manage specialised apps for mobile and television platforms like iOS, Tizen, WebOS, and Roku, in addition to integrating LogixPlayer across the

TRAI readying consultation paper on satellite spectrum auction

India’s broadcast and telecom regulator TRAI is readying a consultation paper on the much-debated issue of proposed auctioning of satellite spectrum, according to a top official of the regulatory body. “Cannot say what it would be (auction or administrative allocation of satellite spectrum), but we would come out with a consultation paper soo...

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“This initiative will empower subscribers to pay online and subscribe to the channels they want to watch and get it activated on their TV sets in real-time without any delay. Without needing to undertake any software development, LMOs can approach Mobiezy for their pre-built and pre-integrated solution that uses NXTDigital’s news APIs and can be up and running with their own mobile apps within just a few days.”

RU Ediriwira, Group CTO, NXTDigital Limited

“With the launch of Partnership for Growth 3.0 we intend to expand our network with 40 new NXTHUBs, each offering up to 650 live TV channels and broadband. Our efforts are focused on harnessing the convergence of technologies, developing robust apps and creating new business models that will help the overall ecosystem, delivering the best experience to our subscribers. We hope to achieve a stronger foothold in the rural regions of the country and grow our subscriber base.”

N.K. Rouse, COO, NXT Digital Ltd

“One of the key principles of the Hinduja Group is ‘Partnership for Growth’. After 2.0 saw the launch of HITS to connect LMOs in even the most remote locations through the only satellite-based cable TV platform in India; 3.0 focuses not just on strengthening the overall ecosystem we have built, but harnessing the convergence of technologies – to be delivered through a national network of NXTHUBs. Video and broadband are only the beginning of the digital highway of services that we have developed for roll-out backed by a robust suite of innovative apps developed by service providers exclusively for our LMOs and subscribers.”

Vynsley Fernandes, MD & CEO, NXTDigital Limited

“Wireline broadband is becoming ever more important not only in connecting homes across the country but also small to large enterprises-to the digital economy. The NXTHUBs will be the perfect point-of-presence to offer broadband services to cater to these consumer needs.”

Yugal Kishore Sharma CEO, ONEOTT Intertainment Limited

Amazing and grim battle for survival. Guess it will end up in Supreme Court. All that NCLT asked Zee to do was to file a reply to Invesco petition for a EGM. Now this is getting too serious. So far Invesco has been hammered for demanding an EGM. What is Zee upto? Ofcourse my lawyer community knows better!