Pay-TV
December 31st, 2013 | by
Alfred Siew There are so many ways to look back at some of the technology and media news headlines in 2013, but perhaps the most practical one is to see how things can improve in the new year. From the controversial last-minute changes to...
September 20th, 2013 | by
Alfred Siew The cable TV operator said today that the "few hundred" boxes, used to unscramble TV channels, were found at a storage facility, after several months of...
August 2nd, 2013 | by
Zen Soo On offer are some 18,000 video-on-demand titles, 116 TV channels, 1,200 e-books and its own app store which boasts 370...
March 15th, 2013 | by
Alfred Siew (source: StarHub) StarHub is using Singapore’s fibre network to deliver its pay-TV services to offices, restaurants and pubs from March 18, as it seeks to cut down on current terrestrial broadcasts to such business...
December 16th, 2012 | by
Alfred Siew StarHub pay-TV viewers can now watch Cartoon Network, Comedy Central Asia and eight other new channels on their PCs, tablets and smartphones, as the cable operator expanded the lineup for its TV Anywhere service to 36 channels...
September 9th, 2012 | by
Alfred Siew When several Fox channels start being available on SingTel's mio TV set top boxes in October, they will help roll back years of ruinous competition for exclusive content that has resulted in higher prices and inconvenience for...
August 8th, 2012 | by
Alfred Siew The broadcast of Euro 2012, the first pay-TV content to be licensed under Singapore's cross carriage regime, has helped boost StarHub's net profit after tax to S$87 million for the quarter ended June...
June 29th, 2012 | by
Alfred Siew StarHub is offering weekly free previews of its channels from early July, before giving an entire week's access to most of its channels on National Day week in August, as part of its 20th anniversary...
March 24th, 2010 | by
Alfred Siew After all these years, and facing the wrath of football fans deprived of live World Cup matches, Singapore's media regulators finally decided a fortnight ago to rule out exclusive pay-TV content henceforth and bring an end to one...
August 7th, 2009 | by
Alfred Siew Free football in a small pay-TV market distorted by exclusive content deals? That's not a National Day joke. It's one fierce promotional ploy that SingTel is announcing today, just days before the football season kicks off for...
