North Korea Tech shared an amazing link yesterday that is apparently a live stream of Korea Central Television, i.e. the DPRK's official TV station. I've been watching it for the last half-hour, and even though I don't speak a word of Korean, it's still pretty damn interesting! You can watch the stream using this link, but the easiest way to watch it is using a client like VLC (if you don't have VLC, grab it here because it's great). Using VLC, choose "Open Network" in the File menu and then copy-paste ...
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Nov 25 2011
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SARFT Banning TV Ads During Shows; Good News or Bad News for Online Video?
For the past few days, rumors have been swirling that along with its limitation of "entertainment" programs, China's State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT) will also be implementing a new regulation that bans all advertisement during TV dramas. Yesterday SARFT management bureau chief Li Jingsheng announced that SARFT will indeed be banning ads during TV programs. The detailed regulations will be announced sometime later this month, but it seems that advertisements will be allowed, but only during the time when one show has finished and the next show ...
Oct 17 2011
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TV-Time: A Chinese Start-Up Aims to Make Watching TV More Social
Watching TV is almost always an anti-social activity - but one Chinese start-up wants to change that, and is building a social network on discussions around popular TV shows. The TV-time SNS - with newly-made apps for iPhone and Android - aims to fuse China’s love of online discussion boards (BBS), with a fully-fledged mobile social network that encourages either fun or expert analysis of what’s on TV. The TV-time mobile apps break things down into three searchable segments: what’s playing now on TV; ‘hottest’ TV series; and program listings. Using ...
Oct 10 2011
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Kandian: Sina Breaks Into Social TV and Personal Broadcasting
Kandian is a new social TV service from Sina, launched over the weekend. Essentially, it’s a multimedia viewing and sharing service linked closely to Sina’s own Weibo platform. Users can upload or live-stream - in a manner similar to the Americam site, Justin.tv - and then share and discuss the content with friends. In addition to user-generated content, there are some proper TV channels on the site that can be streamed for free. The site is still in private beta. The UI design of Kandian.com is simple and clean. The navigation ...
Sep 15 2011
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Sohu, Spending Big on Video Content, Licenses 400 More Hollywood Titles
Chinese web portal Sohu (NASDAQ:SOHU) is splashing the cash this week, licensing 400 movie titles from Hollywood studio, 20th Century Fox. The agreement stretches over the next three years. In the nearer term, it’ll bring brand-new films such as Rio (pictured above) - the Angry Birds themed animation - to its TV/movie portal very soon. Whilst some of Sohu’s licensed film and TV series content is free and ad-supported, many require a small fee - generally just 3 to 5RMB (just 50 to 75 US cents). Monthly streaming subscriptions are available ...
Sep 1 2011
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VODone: the Biggest Chinese Tech Company You’ve Never Heard Of
For a Chinese tech company of its size and clout, VODone - with its V1.cn video portal, V1Tuan group buy site, mobile ad network, and mobile TV dominance - gets startlingly little attention worldwide. What is the VODone Group exactly? One of the most notable things about the firm is that it is state-affiliated; indeed, it is a semi-state owned enterprise (SSOE). As such, it has very strong government ties, and boasts of being one of the few companies to have acquired all the requisite broadcasting and video licenses. VODone’s ...
Aug 22 2011
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Cloud TV: Star India All Set to Be The First Player
The rise of cloud computing has taken the world’s technology scene by storm. When pretty much everybody is shifting to the cloud these days, why should one of the major players in Indian television, Star India, be behind? In this race, Satellite Television for the Asian Region (STAR) has decided to blaze a trail and air - or, rather, stream - all its programmes through the cloud. Star plans to digitize its entire catalog of programming by September, according to the Deccan Chronicle today. That'll allow users to access all of ...
Jul 7 2011
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Baidu Partners With Huashu, Aims For Chinese TV Viewers
Baidu, the largest search engine in China, has partnered with Huashu Media to develop products to put its search engine in Chinese television sets, according to a Reuters report. The partnership will bring Baidu products to more users via their TV, across 100 cities in China. Simply put, this partnership sounds a lot like Google TV. Baidu will also likely bring its box computing concept over to the TV. For now, details of the “digital product” isn’t elaborated on in the report. One thing for sure, the partnership has the potential ...
Jun 7 2011
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HOW TO: Pitch Your Business Idea On TV
The Angel’s Gate is a reality TV series that gives entrepreneurs the opportunity to pitch their business ideas to some of Asia’s most successful investors. If you have seen Dragon’s Den, you will roughly understand what the program is. But The Angel’s Gate goes the extra mile by putting the show on TV, web, and mobile platforms, giving entrepreneurs '360-degree' coverage and exposure. So, if you have a really cool business idea and the guts to pitch it to millions of people - and successful investors - then The Angel’s Gate ...
May 28 2011
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Stalker Turns Webcam Hacker, Spies On Chinese Reality TV Show Girls
An unemployed 30-year old man in Southern China was this week given a three-year prison sentence, after his obsession with two beautiful female contestants on a popular dating TV show led him to hack into their webcams, and then extort them with the compromising photos that he snapped. It went like this: the TV show - 'If You Are the One' - often displays the email and/or QQ number of its contestants, so sneaky Chen Ding-ning used that info to pose as a representative offering promotional work to many women ...
May 12 2011
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Indonesia’s TelkomVision Joins With Irdeto To Improve Pay TV
TelkomVision, a subsidiary TV provider of PT Telkom Indonesia, is cooperating with Irdeto to increase the quality of its pay TV service. Irdeto is a global enterprise security software and media technology company, headquartered in Amsterdam and Beijing. It will provide Conditional Access System Service (CAS) for TelkomVision customers via 500,000 smart cards which are to support TelkomVision broadcasts. With this collaboration TelkomVision aims to double its user base in 2011. Currently the penetration rate of pay TV in Indonesia is only 3%, and Irdeto estimates that this figure will increase to ...
May 12 2011
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Tencent Boosts Video Content Strategy [UPDATED]
Chinese internet giant Tencent has bought 27.8 million shares (amounting to a 4.6% stake) in TV producer Huayi Brothers Media for around 450 million RMB ($69.2 million). In an official release, Tencent said this investment was made for strategic reasons. Tencent provides users with access to multiple services via a single QQ login. However its video product Tencent Video, which launched in 24 March this year, has much catching up to do compared to sites like Youku, Tudou, and Qiyi. If there’s any room to differentiate within the crowded online video ...
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