On Demand Group has signed a new four-year contract to provide content management services for Virgin Media's on demand service. The renewal covers rights management, editorial service management, promo production, and content operations including encoding, metadata generation, and content preparation, which ODG has been providing since the service went live in February 2007.
Mariner, provider of IPTV solutions and technologies, and Orca Interactive, specialist in providing IPTV middleware and applications and a Viaccess subsidiary, have revealed a global alliance. The alliance enables Orca customers to receive additional value added services, while driving market penetration of xVu, Mariner’s flagship software assurance solution, in conjunction with the sale of its […]
DiBcom, a fabless semiconductor company and provider of mobile TV solutions, has entered into a cooperation agreement with the satellite-based service Solaris Mobile which recently successfully launched its W2A satellite payload. Solaris Mobile will provide mobile television and in-vehicle entertainment, information and communication services across Europe. DiBcom supplies DVB-SH broadcast receiver solutions to enable mobile […]
Civolution, provider of technology and services for identifying, managing and monetising media content, has signed a partnership agreement with Eurovision, for its Teletrax broadcast monitoring service. Eurovision will integrate the Teletrax video watermarking based monitoring service into its distribution services. Using Teletrax's unique global television monitoring network of over 1500 channels and its web-based reporting […]
GlobeCast has strengthened its position in the Americas with the appointment of two key executives. Former GlobeCast Asia CEO David Justin has been named as CEO America while industry veteran Catherine Palaia has joined the company as Senior Director, Business and Product Development.
India's pay-television industry is facing a shake-out amid intense competition during the recession according to a report by Media Partners Asia (MPA). "All of the players have to rationalise their costs because advertising sales and subscriptions are falling," said Vivek Couto, executive director at MPA. India has been a standout market in Asia for pay-TV […]
Consumers are increasingly watching television content on multiple platforms, contributing to the fragmentation of the traditional viewing experience, according to findings from Accenture's second annual Global Broadcast Consumer Survey. Although the consumption of broadcast television content continues to grow, viewers are adapting quickly to new choices that change how, when and where they watch programming. […]
From Colin Mann in Las Vegas Media server and active storage systems specialist Omneon and media transport technologist Aspera have agreed on the terms of a broad partnership in which Aspera will acquire the Omneon Castify content distribution business unit and the two companies will collaborate on making Content Distribution Network (CDN) solutions more widely […]
James Murdoch will deliver the James MacTaggart Lecture at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival in August, 20 years after his father Rupert used the same platform to deliver a caustic attack on the British television establishment.
From Colin Mann in Las Vegas MTV Networks (MTVN) has teamed with Cisco to create an expanded, more efficient programming distribution platform using Cisco medianet products and technologies including MPEG-4 advanced video coding (AVC) and transcoding, Cisco TelePresence and Unified Communications systems. Using MPEG-4 AVC, content owners can distribute a single high-definition (HD) programme feed […]