Netflix, the world’s largest online movie rental service, has surpassed 10 million subscribers, a milestone that reflects the widespread and growing appeal of the company’s service. Netflix members can get unlimited DVDs delivered to their homes and can instantly watch movies and TV episodes streamed over the Internet to their TVs and computers. In crossing […]
CI Plus LLP, a consortium of leading TV and Conditional Access Module manufacturers, has heralded a new era of protection against piracy with the publication of the new CI Plus Common Interface Standard. To implement the necessary content protection mechanisms that are based on digital certificates, CI Plus signed an exclusive multi-year contract with TC […]
French telco Viaccess and UDcast, provider of wireless IP broadcast solutions, have confirmed a partnership to provide an end-to-end mobile TV security solution, based on the OMA BCAST SmartCard Profile standard. The joint offering ensures full interoperability between the Viaccess purple-TV conditional access system with UDcast's Mobile TV head-end solution to provide a secure environment […]
Israeli internet TV tech provider Tvinci has completed its first round of $1.6 million led by private investors. The Tel Aviv-based company is also looking for a second round in order to expand sales into other territories. Tvinci offers turnkey video customization tools to both mobile and pay-TV operators, and counts MSN and MTVN, including […]
The Home Gateway Initiative (HGI), the industry body representing players in the home networking space, has announced the addition of Arcor to its list of operator members. Arcor is Germany's second largest telco. Arcor joins a current list of operators that includes Belgacom, BT, Deutsche Telekom, Fastweb, France Telecom, KDDI, KPN, NTT, Portugal Telecom, Swisscom, […]
The FLO Forum is pleased by the decision of the Joint Technical Committee (JTC) Broadcast to publish ETSI TS 102 589, "Forward Link Only Air Interface; Specification for Terrestrial Mobile; Multimedia Multicast." JTC Broadcast is a collaborative working group of EBU (European Broadcasting Union), CENELEC (European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization), and ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards […]
Ericsson will launch its Connected Home Gateway software at the Mobile World Congress in Spain, giving consumers the freedom to access and interact with their home multimedia devices, services and media, wherever they are. The gateway also enables one single entry point for IPTV and multimedia telephony services into the home. Installed in the home, […]
Viaccess has been selected by GlobeCast to provide its Viaccess Mobile Broadcast service protection solution based on the OMA BCAST Smartcard profile for use in a key trial platform to facilitate the commercial launch of this technology in Europe. The objective of this platform is to demonstrate both the viability of DVB-H as a mobile […]
Nagravision and PacketVideo, the software innovator powering the global mobile multimedia services, have introduced the first conditional access enabled version of the Telly device. Created by PV and combined with Nagravision's Mobile TV solution, Telly turns iPhones, WiFi-enabled phones, portable media players and PCs into mobile television sets. The product seamlessly decodes broadcast signals and […]
Star, the pay-TV operator, has launched Star Mandarin Mobile in partnership with digital media publisher News Digital Media and MNO 3 Australia. Star Mandarin Mobile is Australia's first Chinese language subscription based mobile TV service and is available to 3 mobile users at A$1 a day or A$4 a month. To start, the service features […]