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• Revolver fires 'first' social video-on-demand service
  

  Leading UK independent film distributor and production company Revolver Entertainment has launched what it claims is the world’s first social video-on-demand (So-VOD) service on Facebook.

  
  
  
• 4G likely to disrupt TV in two million UK homes
  

  In a written answer to a parliamentary question, UK minister for culture, communications and the creative industries, Ed Vaizey, has revealed that instead of providing opportunities for TV use, 4G telecoms networks could actually interrupt TV signals.

  
  
  
• Connected devices drive live TV, DVT multitasking monetisation opportunities
  

  The unprecedented and perhaps unstoppable proliferation of connected devices has resulted in two-thirds of their owners deploying them while both watching live TV and watching recorded programming on DVRs.

  
  
  
• Toshiba launches its first HD 3D smart TV in India
  

  Toshiba India has launched its first full HD 3D smart TV – the Toshiba VL20 – in India.

  
  
  
• 440 million digital TV homes in Asia Pacific by 2017
  

  Asia Pacific is undergoing a digital TV boom that will see penetration increase from 36% in 2011 to 83% in 2017, adding 440 million homes, according to a new report from Digital TV Research.