Driven by the broadband access boom, global shipments of consumer-electronics devices capable of supporting Internet video are set to rise by nearly a factor of five from 2009 to 2013, according to iSuppli Corp. By 2013, 376.5 million entertainment-oriented consumer electronics platforms with the capability to support Internet video will be shipped, up from 80.5 […]
The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA) has released key findings from a commissioned survey on piracy deterrence. The study, conducted by Interpret, aimed to determine whether the inclusion of Digital Serial Numbers (DSNs) in online content would deter illegal file sharing. The results showed that DSNs would deter illegal downloading among 33 per cent of the […]
From Colin Mann in Cologne On-demand TV server systems provider Edgeware and broadband cable networks specialist Teleste have inked a partnership and global reseller agreement under which Teleste will resell Edgeware’s video server products. Edgeware’s Orbit and Web TV Server products are pre-integrated with Teleste’s MyCast hybrid IPTV/DVB middleware. The pair suggest that with the […]
Appear TV, a global provider of next-generation head-ends for broadcast and IP television, has launched its Audio Levelling solution at ANGA. This solution is a plug-in for Appear TV's SC2000 and MC3000 ranges of high-density flexible head-ends. Appear TV's Audio Levelling solution enables the operator to individually, within the MPEG domain, adjust the audio level […]
From Colin Mann in Cologne NDS and EPG specialist Axel Springer Digital TV Guide are teaming up to promote personal TV – representing today's rich TV viewing experience enabled by t digital video recorders and electronic programme guides– to Germany's broadcasting, pay-TV and cable providers. In addition, the pair will share how today's advanced TV […]
From Colin Mann in Cologne Motorola has unveiled a new cable headend solution for the European market, aimed at giving its customers more efficient, reliable, flexible and open standard headend architectures as they introduce bandwidth-hungry HD content. Developed specifically in response to the growing consumer demand for High Definition (HD) content, Motorola’s new cable headend […]
Arris and OpenTV have announced a turnkey digital advertising offering for cable and telco operators looking to revenues from advanced digital advertising services to effectively generate advertising revenues with a minimum of risk. The turnkey solution supports the advertising sales, insertion, reporting, campaign management, and related functions necessary for ad sales operations and is targeted […]
Victor Koo, CEO of online video-sharing portal Youku, says it can now guarantee more than RMB10 million of revenue each month, adding that year-on-year revenue growth for the previous month was 900 per cent. Youku’s application to the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) for a licence to provide 3G video services is […]
Despite threats from programmers that network DVRs violate their copyrights, Cablevision plans to begin offering its Remote Storage-DVR this summer. According to programmers the technology essentially turns their content into VOD offerings, diminishing the value of linear programming and the advertising that goes with it. What’s more, the simplicity of the network DVR will just […]
RGB Networks, an expert in network video processing, is introducing its Dynamic Bandwidth Manager (DBM) to European cable operators, enabling them to dramatically expand their video-on-demand (VOD) offerings leveraging existing QAM and fibre infrastructure. Utilising RGB's DBM, the industry's pioneering VOD transrater, operators can deliver up to 50 per cent more VOD programming within existing […]