Grass Valley is assisting Latvia State Radio and Television Centre (LVRTC) to make the switch from analogue to digital transmission by installing an advanced DVB-T network that features encoding, multiplexing, and nationwide distribution technology and systems from Grass Valley. The LVRTC is the technical DVB-T service provider for Lattelecom, the main incumbent Telco organisation in […]
Bridge Technologies and Bratislava-based digital audio and video technology specialist Sunteq have partnered to distribute and support Bridge Technologies’ VideoBRIDGE product range in Slovakia. Sunteq will supply VideoBRIDGE’s award winning IP probes for digital TV monitoring to broadcasters, telcos, and network operators throughout the country, providing the most advanced headend to set-top box monitoring solution […]
About 46.5 per cent or 1.06 million households, receive digital terrestrial television services in Hong Kong according to a December survey, showing the penetration rate has grown more than 40 per cent since the end of 2008. Secretary for Commerce & Economic Development Rita Lau said the service take-up rate has been growing steadily and […]
The amount of time young people spend with entertainment media has risen dramatically, especially among minority youth, according to a study released by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Today, 8-18 year-olds devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes (7:38) to using entertainment media across a typical day (more than 53 hours a week). And […]
News Corp is to increase its stake in German pay-TV provider Sky Deutschland from 39.96 per cent to 45.42 per cent via a Sky Deutschland share issue. News Corp will invest E110m aimed at its marketing and sales activities, including direct marketing to subscribers, and to expand its HD offer. The pay-TV provider plans to […]
The French government will provide E2 billion of soft loans to improve the country’s high-speed access, as part of a national loan programme to boost the economy through investment in infrastructure. Prime Minister Francois Fillon said the government would make a series of low-interest loans to telecommunications groups, to encourage them to develop fibre-optic networks […]
Carphone Warehouse is delaying its IPTV proposition until there is more progress on Project Canvas, saying it would be “foolhardy” to invest in its own TV proposition against incumbent offerings big TV operators. The comments were made during a trading update today, when CEO Charles Dunstone said earnings are expected to be at the top […]
The French DTT distributor TV Numeric is to acquire one of its top competitors – TNtop TV, the French subsidiary of the UK's Top Up TV. TV Numeric says it intends to harness the acquisition to launch push-VOD systems on DTT. The company is currently preparing its first push-VOD technical tests in areas of Normandy.
UK's ITV has been given the green light to launch two new channels – a time-shifted channel and a high definition channel – following a report by The Competition Commission. However, the network is angry the Commission has only agreed smallchanges to the system of contract rights renewal (CRR), the way in which advertising is […]
blinkx, the world's largest video search engine, has been ranked a top online brand by the Nielsen Company. blinkx joins the ranks of YouTube, Hulu, and Yahoo as a top online video site in a recent report based on video streams for December 2009. In addition to its ranking of top online brands, Nielsen reports […]