Tektronix, global provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, has confirmed that Sichuan Changhong Electric has selected the Tektronix PQA500 picture quality analyser for its AVS (China's Audio and Video Coding Standard) encoder and decoder design. The adoption will help Changhong to optimise the codec performance and accelerate its video product development.
According to new research from The Diffusion Group (TDG), the number of global broadband households will near 440 million by 2010 and top 1.2 billion by 2030. During that same time, the number of broadband-enabled home networks will grow from 150 million in 2010 (34% of broadband homes) to more than 1.0 billion in 2030 […]
ITN has appointed John Hardie, a senior executive at Disney and former ITV commercial director, as its chief executive. Hardie, who succeeds Mark Wood who left ITN in February after six years, takes up the role in June. Hardie, 47, executive vice-president and managing director of Walt Disney Television across Europe, Middle East and Africa, […]
IP video convergence encoding solutions provider Envivio is to supply its Convergence Series video headend for Türk Telekom's IPTV project in Turkey. Türk Telekom, one of the world's largest Tier 1 operators serving more than 30 million customers, will use Envivio 4Caster C4 SD and 4Caster HD30 HD MPEG-4 AVC encoders and the 4Manager NMS, […]
NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, unveiled the new STB150 system solution, delivering a complete production-ready platform for the fast growing digital cable TV services market. The NXP STB150 integrates the powerful new single-chip CX2448x MPEG-2 decoder for DVB-C reception with a TDA18252HN silicon tuner and complete software stack, giving cable operators […]
Comms industry market researcher Dell’Oro Group, has reported that the global IPTV subscriber base grew by 3.2 million in the fourth quarter to reach 23 million subscribers at the end of 2008, nearly double the number at the end of 2007. While Europe, Middle East, and Africa remained the largest market for unit shipments of […]
US Cable companies, which have begun to deploy new technology that will enable them to deliver faster Internet speeds to customers, should have the enhanced broadband service available to nearly all of their customers within the next five years, according to a forecast by market research provider Pike & Fischer. DOCSIS 3.0 will help cable […]
Oxford Economics institute in UK says online piracy cost the industry £235 million (E253m) in 2008 – that's nearly half of the £531 million the group says was lost to piracy of all kinds. But the annual online loss could be reduced to £83.2 million if downloaders received an ISP warning and if detection technologies […]
The Media Development Authority (MDA) has confirmed that the Government aims to spend $160 million this year to sustain the growth momentum of Singapore's media sector amidst the economic downturn. This spending, which includes funding from the National Research Foundation (NRF) to boost research and development in interactive digital media, as well as support for […]
US reports say the Council for Research Excellence, a cross-industry think tank of top executives from agencies and TV networks, has spent the past year executing a $3.5 million project called the "Video Consumer Mapping Study." The initiative is described as, "the largest and most significant observational study of media activity ever undertaken." Shari Anne […]