GlobeCast has opened its new playout facility at its regional headquarters in Singapore. Connected to the company's worldwide satellite and fibre distribution network, the Singapore facility is the latest addition to GlobeCast's London and Florida Media Management hubs. The launch of playout services in Singapore is the latest in a string of developments in Asia […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid Despite the current pay-TV deadlock in the country, the latest report by PricewaterhouseCoopers forecast that the market will experience a 16.5 per cent annual growth over the next five years. Currently, there are around 4 million pay-TV subscribers in Spain, with Sogecable-owned satellite platform Digital Plus taking the lion’s […]
Macrovision Solutions Corporation has confirmed that Portugal Telecom, has entered into a multi-year patent licence agreement for interactive program guides (IPGs) in its Meo-branded television service offerings for the Portugal market. Portugal Telecom recently announced that Meo, its pay-TV service, has a customer base that now surpasses 200,000 subscribers.
US broadcaster NBC has extended its subscription-on-demand movie service PictureBox with a matching offer for its television series – branded 'TVBox' – on UK digital terrestrial TV. An agreement with Top Up TV sees the debut of TVBox, which forms part of Top Up TV’s on-demand services. TVBox offers current and library TV series from […]
Digialist, a digital television design house and system integrator, has integrated the NexGuard forensic watermarking technology from Thomson and Conax Chipset Pairing from the conditional access provider Conax into its MPEG-2 set-top-box reference design. The Digialist reference design supports Terrestrial, Cable and Satellite DVB transmissions using only a single antenna input. The reference design is […]
ITN Source has confirmed the creation of Diagonal View, a digital production business. ITN Source and Matt Heiman, founder of Mobix Interactive, formed the joint venture six months ago as an incubator business. Diagonal View packages quirky and obscure content from ITN Source's vast archive and syndicates it to a range of commercial partners including […]
Dutch telco KPN has reported a growth of 69 percent as subscribers for its IPTV service reached 700,000 in Q3. KPN estimates it now has a 21 per cent share of the Dutch digital television market. The telco’s total revenues for the Q3 hit E3.652 billion, up 20 per cent from the same period of […]
The second largest US telecoms group reported a 31 per cent increase in third-quarter profits fueled by continued growth in its Verizon Wireless joint venture with Vodafone. Net income increased to $1.67bn. The mobile unit offset accelerating residential phone line and DSL line losses. Revenues grew by 4.1 percent to $24.8 bn. Verizon is spending […]
The satellite operator said EBITDA for the nine month period was little changed with net profit at E338.8m against E347m last time. Chief Executive Romain Bausch was upbeat about SES’s prospects despite the gloomy economic outlook. “We are in a business which is described as an infrastrucure business with no exposure to consumers,” he told […]
Envivio, technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions, has announced that its Mobile Series video encoding platform has been installed by MEO Mobile – the mobile TV service from the mobile network subsidiary of Portugal Telecom. MEO Mobile has used the Envivio platform to upgrade and expand its mobile streaming service, enabling it to […]