Advanced Television

Bestv complete Hungary pilot

Motive Television, the digital television technology, software and services provider, has successfully completed the technical pilot of its Bestv technology with Antenna Hungaria, a subsidiary of Groupe TDF. Antenna Hungaria operates a digital terrestrial television (DTT) platform offering consumers the choice of both free and pay television channels via a set top box. Throughout the […]

December 7, 2010

Tata Sky licenses StormTest

S3 Group has revealed Indian satellite TV provider, Tata Sky, has licensed its StormTest Development Centre solution for automated STB validation testing. Tata Sky is a joint venture between the TataGroup and Star. The Tata Group is one of India’s largest business conglomerates with operations in more than 80 countries across six continents and exporting […]

December 7, 2010

Mo-DV enables movies on Android devices

Mo-DV, an innovator of multimedia content delivery via USB Flash Drives and Micro SD Cards, has announced that its Mo-DV Universal Player intellectual property (IP) with Digital Rights Management (DRM) is now enabling major movie studios to securely offer movies on SD cards for Android devices. This milestone follows Mo-DV’s success in enabling movie studios […]

December 7, 2010

IBC launches 2011 Awards Programme

IBC has issued the first call for entries for its 2011 Innovation Awards, the unique programme which recognises that success comes when vendors and users collaborate on perfectly tuned solutions. “There are many awards for technology, but the IBC Awards dig much deeper,” said Michael Crimp, CEO of IBC. “To win an IBC Innovation Award […]

December 7, 2010

ITI Neovision selects the Neotion CI Plus Conax module to boost HD Pay TV bouquet

Neotion, a French based provider of highly‐sophisticated processors (SoC) and Advanced CI & CI Plus Modules for Pay TV operators’ has been selected by ITI Neovision, a leading Polish DTH Pay TV operator as their exclusive supplier of CI Plus Conax Modules, for their HD satellite bouquet in Poland. The Neotion CI Plus Conax Chipset […]

December 7, 2010

Multichannel loss to cord cutters just 0.1%

The amount of ‘cord-cutters’ – multichannel homes with a high-speed Internet connection that drop their cable/telco/satellite subscriptions, but retain their broadband connection to watch television – netted out to only 0.11 per cent of the television population over the past three months, according to an extensive ESPN analysis of Nielsen’s national people meter sample. ESPN […]

December 6, 2010

UK plans super fast broadband future

The UK Government has revealed plans to spend £830 million (€979m) in an effort to give the UK the best broadband network in Europe by 2015. An action plan – Britain’s Superfast Broadband Future – published by Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, sets out the ambition to create a ‘digital hub’ in every community in the […]

December 6, 2010From Colin Mann in London

Time Warner gets Glue social TV

GetGlue, a social network that lets users “check in” to television programmes, films and sporting events, has attracted investment from Time Warner as it  leads a $6 million round of financing. GetGlue allows users to signal what type of media they are consuming at any given moment. GetGlue has partnerships with 24 companies including television […]

December 6, 2010

DVB choice under question in Colombia

The decision to adopt the DVB digital television standard in Colombia has been suspended. There are local reports of “irregularities” over the decision-making process which ended up with DVB being selected. According to the El Espectador newspaper, the Colombian State Council has accepted the request to cancel the DVB decision pending a decision on whether […]

December 6, 2010By Chris Forrester

Liberty buys Poland’s Aster

Liberty Global has announced an agreement to acquire 100 per cent of the equity of Aster Sp. z.o.o (Aster Cable) from private equity funds of Mid Europa Partners. Poland’s Aster provides video services to 368,000 (including 92,000 digital TV), 177,000 Internet and 70,000 fixed telephony subscribers. Mike Fries, President and Chief Executive Officer of Liberty […]

December 6, 2010