OEDN (The OCAP/EBIF Developer Network) has confirmed that its charter sponsor – Time Warner Cable – has been joined by four additional cable multiple system operators (MSOs) in its efforts to promote interactive television (ITV) application development for digital cable. Those four companies are: Bright House Networks, Cablevision Systems, Charter Communications, and Liberty Global, Inc
Anevia, a video service infrastructure provider, plans to make VOD more accessible to the hospitality market, with the launch of its Flamingo 700 gateway solution gathering VOD and Live TV. Flamingo 700 simultaneously delivers Live TV channels and on-demand video content such as movies or music concerts, to TV or computers. Back to top
Communications market research firm Infonetics Research has released the fourth quarter edition of its Broadband CPE and Subscribers report. “In the fourth quarter of 2008, a slowdown in broadband subscriber growth caused worldwide manufacturer revenue to decline five per cent for DSL CPE, and two per cent for cable CPE. 2009 will be a challenging […]
Leichtman Research Group (LRG) has found that the twenty largest cable and telephone providers in the US – representing about 94 per cent of the market – acquired over 5.4 million net additional high-speed Internet subscribers in 2008. Annual net broadband additions were down compared to the 8.5 million in 2007, and the peak of […]
Analysis carried out by Generator Research shows that revenue from traditional television spot ads will account for just 25 per cent of US television advertising by 2019. The result will be a market worth $13.1 billion in the down from $57.8 billion in 2008. “This could be the beginning of a slippery slope for the […]
The BBC and BFI (British Film Institute) are working together to develop plans for increasing public access to their respective audio, film and TV archives. This agreement draws on the opportunities presented by the development of digital technologies, in particular the expansion of the UK’s broadband infrastructure, which allows both the BBC and the BFI […]
Seven Media Group will take on Telstra and other Australian Internet service providers by selling a broadband internet connection with its TiVo digital set-top box from next month. The broadband service –which turns TiVo into an internet service provider – will be launched along with a movie library of more than 100 titles that customers […]
UK Media watchdog Ofcom has confirmed that April will see the first release of its broadband speed league table, which will reveal the real-world performance of UK ISPs. It will be based off the same system that allowed Ofcom to report the country’s average downstream speed of 3.6Mbps in January. ………….
NXP, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, has confirmed that its complete DVB-S2/MPEG-4 digital video recorder (DVR) set-top box solution has been incorporated in the latest Amstrad DRX780UK HD satellite receiver. Amstrad, now owned by BSkyB and the main supplier of its Sky+HD boxes, has selected NXP's high-definition H.264 chipset with DVB-S2 satellite front […]
Rising demand for complex multimedia-centric applications is forcing handset manufacturers to design increasingly smart‚ and highly personalised mobile devices. A report from Juniper Research forecasts that these so-called smartphones will account for 23 per cent of all new handsets sold per annum by 2013. Driving interest in smart phones will be the proliferation of online […]