Brightcove has announced the formation of the Brightcove Alliance, a global ecosystem of leading technology and distribution partners who have integrated with the Brightcove online video platform, as well as solution providers building customer websites and video applications using Brightcove. Through the Brightcove Alliance, organisations worldwide have access to a broad range of expert partners, […]
Motorola has been selected to provide the satellite transmission equipment, including compression systems and multiplexors, to enable Fox to transition all its satellite programme distribution to 100 percent HD delivery. The move which will enable Fox viewers to benefit from the clarity of HD content on the company's broadcast network, national cable channels, regional sports […]
DiBcom, provider of Mobile TV solutions, has revealed its involvement in the design of the Canal+ Key – what it claims is the first USB key-sized Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) HD decoder in the world. The device enables the reception of French pay-TV programmes on PCs anywhere and at any given time. A full DTT […]
Bringing its advanced radio frequency (RF) silicon electronics to the automotive industry, Microtune has introduced a first-of-its-kind tuner chip for high-speed in-car TV. The MicroTuner MT2067 is a world-standard, automotive-grade TV tuner engineered to provide superior, stable TV reception for passengers in vehicles travelling at top speeds along the highway. It enables automakers to improve […]
Cisco has unveiled a media processing platform that simplifies live and on-demand media sharing across PCs, mobile devices and other digital screens, by seamlessly formatting video and rich media for viewing on any device. The create once and share anywhere Cisco Media Processing platform provides media conversion, real-time post production, editing, formatting, and network distribution […]
Video game veteran Sega has launched its own online gaming website, branded Play Sega. The site currently contains a combination of new flash games and previously released titles such as Brain Assist, which appeared on the Nintendo DS, and the mobile version of Mario And Sonic At The Olympic Games. Sega also revealed that a […]
Tandberg Television has confirmed that KT, Korea’s leading integrated wired/wireless communications service provider, has selected a Tandberg IPTV head end to support the continued growth of its Mega TV IPTV service. Mega TV has over 700,000 subscribers and provides interactive and pay per view services, including movies on-demand. KT will use TANDBERG Television's market leading […]
According to InfoCom’s most recent release of its quarterly television monitoring service, IPTV has been making mixed progress in the pay-TV market in countries that generally have a large broadband subscriber base. While some operators achieved six to seven-figure IPTV subscriber numbers, others were not as successful. In the UK, for instance, despite having significant […]
According to a report released this week by market research firm iSuppli, HDTVs are now the leading television product on the market in terms of global shipments, outstripping SD sets this year for the first time. Based on the firm’s data, HDTV shipments, which were at 97.1 million in 2007, could reach as high as […]
A jump in average broadband download speeds in the UK from 4.1Mbps in January to 5Mbps in October 2008 has coincided in Brits move from watching predominantly low-quality video clips on platforms like YouTube to high-quality video on the BBC’s iPlayer which perform best at download speeds. Picture quality and sound via streaming technologies is […]