The China Academy of Broadcasting Science has held a meeting to promote overseas partnerships on the CMMB standard, with senior officials from SARFT’s Science and Technology Department, the Academy itself, the S2M Group and Loral Space and Communications. Deputy director of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) Zhang Haitao said he hopes […]

Australian Pay-TV operator Foxtel’s next generation, high-definition set-top box is close to launching. Foxtel boss Kim Williams said he is “very confident” the launch of the new Foxtel HD+ service – which will be accessible through a new iQ2 HD set-top box that will have 320GB of storage – would be available to consumers “well […]

The UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has flagged up potential competition concerns with Kangaroo, the on-demand service planned by the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. The watchdog is inviting interested parties to comment on the venture and is asking for submissions by May 14. It will then consider whether it has grounds to refer […]

Widevine Technologies has signed a global reseller agreement with the home and networks mobility division of Motorola. The agreement enables Motorola to sell, service and support Widevine's downloadable conditional access and digital rights management products globally. Motorola offers best-of-breed head-end and consumer device solutions while Widevine Cypher, a downloadable conditional access, digital rights management and […]