Advanced Television

Sling Media into Spain

From David Del Valle in Madrid Sling Media, a wholly-owned subsidiary of EchoStar, is launching its SlingBox products, Pro and Solo, to allow their customers in Sling Media, a wholly-owned subsidiary of EchoStar, is launching its SlingBox products, Pro and Solo, to allow their customers in Spain to watch and control the home TV from […]

September 12, 2008

ESPN nets Twenty20 rights

ESPN nets Twenty20 rights US sports broadcaster ESPN has paid almost $1 billion for the global rights to the Twenty20 Champions League, the world’s richest cricket ESPN paid $900 million for the commercial rights and a further $75 million for marketing the tournament. A bid for the rights from Abu Dhabi Sports Club was “disqualified […]

September 12, 2008

Thomson sells Grass Valley

Thomson is selling the Thomson Grass Valley digital film transfer equipment business to private investors led by PARTER Capital Group, a German private equity firm.

September 12, 2008

Korean IPTV rolling out

After a long drawn out process, three Korean telcos are finally preparing to launch real time IPTV broadcasts after getting the green light from the

September 12, 2008

Scopus unveils IRP platform

From Colin Mann in Amsterdam Scopus Video Networks is introducing its Integrated Receiver Processor (IRP) platform, the next generation of Scopus’s Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD) technology. Scopus Video Networks is introducing its Integrated Receiver Processor (IRP) platform, the next generation of Scopus’s Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD) technology. The versatile multiformat receiving/decoding/processing platform for cable, satellite, […]

September 12, 2008

Open IPTV Forum growing stronger

The Open IPTV Forum, the pan-industry initiative that was established to produce the end-to-end solution specification which will open up access to the interactive and The new members are; EnCentro, HwaCom Systems, Institut fuer Rundfunktechnik, Neotion, Sigma Designs, UTStarcom and WyPlay …..

September 12, 2008

broadband connections.

Red Bee opens gateway to Digital Hive From Colin Mann in Amsterdam Red Bee Media has extended its Digital Hive media management platform with a secure Media From Colin Mann in Amsterdam Red Bee Media has extended its Digital Hive media management platform with a secure Media Gateway to enable clients to transfer large media […]

September 12, 2008

Comstar-Direct expands with Tandberg

Tandberg Television has revealed that Comstar-Direct, Russia’s leading provider of broadband Internet access services and a member of Comstar-UTS Group Telesystems is expanding its IPTV

September 12, 2008

ITN Clips on Demand

ITN Clips on Demand ITN Source has launched Clips on Demand, the world's largest collection of broadcast-quality, ';rights-ready' video clips available for purchase and download online

September 12, 2008

Half of Europe’s youth go online for TV and movies

From Colin Mann in Amsterdam Europe's younger generation is leading the way in adoption of web TV services, according to research to be released by Strategy Europe's younger generation is leading the way in adoption of web TV services, according to research to be released by Strategy Analytics at this year's IBC convention. The Strategy […]

September 10, 2008