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 […]
Chinese online video site Voole plans to release an HD online video service, “Lebo”, targeted at both television and computer users, before the end of the year. The new Internet home cinema online service will provide video on demand to computer or television users at full 1920×1080 HD resolution. So far Voole has established co-operative […]
Dilithium, global specialist in multimedia delivery over mobile and broadband networks, has revealed that Etisalat, one of the world’s leading telcos, has selected Dilithium’s end-to-end video solutions for deployment in UAE, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. Mobily (Etisalat subsidiary in Saudi) has already deployed an advanced 3G Live TV and Video on Demand Portal powered by […]
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 Despite much of the cable network in Germany already being upgraded to digital, industry executives have criticised the lack of clear policy surrounding analogue switch-off. Thomas Braun, President of the ANGA Association of German Cable Operators told delegates at the ANGA Cable Strategy Summit that with the networks digitised and […]
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 […]
The Paris Appeal Court has overturned the decision taken by the Tribunal of Commerce on 23rd February 2009, ruling against Orange which was accused of unfairly bundling the channel as part of its TV, telephony and Internet package. Orange has stated is fully satisfied with this decision that re-establishes its rights, and will reopen the […]
Does Hulu, the Web's most popular place for TV viewing, reach nine million people a month or 42 million? Hulu's growth has been explosive, up 490 percent year over year, according to Nielsen Online. Hulu executives, however, say the company is undercounting the site's visitors. They say Nielsen's numbers hurt Hulu's perception among advertisers and […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome According to the latest DGTVi survey conducted inFebruary 2009, the number of Italian households equipped with at least one DTT receiver in their main home arrived to 8.11m or 2.7 million more than one year earlier. The total number of DTT boxes in main homes was 9.84m an increase of […]
During the first three months of 2009 the “Chaînes Canal+” package commanded a 4.5 per cent share of French viewers, a 0.2-point increase from first-quarter 2008 that it says reflects the popularity of Canal+ Family and Canal+ Sport. The number of unique visitors to the new canalplus.fr website doubled to 2,354,000 in February, representing a […]