Read news from:
Austria
SHARE
COPY LINK

CULTURE

Danish public broadcaster to make login mandatory for streaming services

Denmark’s public service broadcaster DR will require users to log in to use its streaming services from 2024, enabling users to save their place within a series and receive recommendations through personalised profiles.

Published: 22 August 2023 16:20 CEST
Danish public broadcaster to make login mandatory for streaming services
Broadcaster DR will require a login for streaming from 2024. File photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix

The broadcaster’s online streaming service, DRTV, will require a login from next year, DR said in a statement. Currently, the service can be used without logging in.

It will remain possible to watch live television and linear television without logging in.

The change will improve the user experience by making DRTV more “personally relevant”, the broadcaster said.

“When you log in, you’ll get your own front page for DRTV. There will be content all Danes can join in on, and there will be content that is more personally relevant for individuals,” DR’s director for strategy and users Lasse Bastkjær Jensen said in the statement.

A name and email address will be required to create a login profile, but suggested content will be primarily based on user behaviour, DR says.

DR editors will be able to prioritise the content which is given prominence on the platform by monitoring and selecting programmes.

Alongside this, DRTV will also use a system that will generate recommended content by registering the types of programmes an individual tends to prefer and prioritising it.

This will make the DRTV platform more individualised over time, according to the broadcaster.

“I’m convinced that the vast majority will welcome the new login because the benefits are clear. Take for example the time it takes to find out how far you are into a programme you have not yet finished. With the new login, this will be completely automatic, in the same way we are used to from other streaming services,” Jensen said.

Households will only require a single login, with each member able to create their own profiles under that login, including child profiles.

The switchover will occur “early in the second quarter” of 2024, according to the DR statement.

Member comments

Log in here to leave a comment.
Become a Member to leave a comment.

CULTURE

Rare Danish coin collection up for auction after 100 years

Like Sleeping Beauty cursed to sleep for 100 years, a Danish coin collection decreed to be kept off the market for a century will finally go under the hammer late this year.

Published: 17 May 2024 15:26 CEST
Rare Danish coin collection up for auction after 100 years

Denmark’s National Museum, exercising its right to first dibs, paid one million euros ($1.09 million) for seven of the collection’s around 20,000 coins.

“The quality is extraordinary. The collection has become a thing of legend. It’s like the princess had been sleeping for 100 years,” Helle Horsnæs, head of the National Museum’s coin and medallion collection, told AFP.

In 1922, Lars Emil Bruun, a Danish entrepreneur and coin expert, bought the collection from the aristocratic Bille-Brahe family, agreeing to respect the National Museum’s pre-emptive right to the collection.

He died the following year, adding in his will a condition to the sale of the collection.

“The story goes that Bruun, after having seen the devastation of the First World War, was very afraid that something would happen to the (museum’s) national collection,” Horsnaes said.

“And therefore he made a will, saying that his collection should be kept as a reserve for the national collection for 100 years after his death,” she added.

Kept hidden away in a secret location for 100 years, a board of trustees handed the collection over to his heirs on November 21, 2023.

It is estimated to be worth $72.5 million.

“People have been talking about it and talking about what will happen now when it is released,” Horsnæs said. “It has taken on a special history of its own.”

The seven pieces acquired by the museum date from the end of the 16th and early 17th centuries.

The rest will be sold by the Stack’s Bowers auction house in the autumn.

SHOW COMMENTS