Agama Technologies, the DTV quality assurance expert, has announced that Faroese Telecom, the incumbent Telco in the Faroe Islands, has selected Agama to provide a complete monitoring solution for its linear IPTV service distribution. The deployed end-to-end solution will support Faroese Telecom in ensuring their customers’ TV experience and in achieving operational excellence in their […]
On Friday evening (Aug 26) Google boss Eric Schmidt delivered the annual MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival. He confirmed that Google TV would launch in Europe early next year with the UK “among the top priorities”. One cautionary comment came from Stewart Purvis, a former CEO at ITN and now professor of […]
Google is to launch its web-TV service in the UK within the next six months, according to reports. The launch was confirmed by CEO Eric Schmidt speaking at the Edinburgh International TV Festival. Schmidt said Google TV did not threaten broadcasters and would enable them to experiment with new formats online. He defended the company’s […]
The Pace share price has jumped as the London stockmarket is alive with rumours that the world’s largest supplier of STBs is a firm take-over target and BSkyB, Cisco Systems and private equity firms are reportedly interested in acquisition. Pace’s share price has been highly volatile this past week, at one stage on August 25th […]
Veteran US media analyst Rich Greenfield of BTIG Research, says Google should buy Hulu – though he still refers to the decision to sell as a “mistake of epic proportions”. Hulu, owned by Comcast, News Corp., Disney and Providence Equity, has reportedly extended the deadline for initial bids to this weekend (Aug 26th). Those […]
Sky Italia has launched Sky Go, a service which allows streaming of sports, football, news and entertainment on the iPad and the iPad2. The service, which represents Sky Italia’s first attempt to provide content on alternative platforms and emerging portable devices, will be extended to Android tablets in the coming weeks. With Sky Go and […]
Deutsche Telekom is planning a new subsidiary to look after high-speed fibre-optic networks and compete more effectively with the country’s cable operators in the high-speed access market, according to Financial Times Deutschland. It says that the new company, FTTH GmbH, could employ up to 1,500 people in the medium term, beginning with several hundred in […]
BBC Research & Development will conduct its first public demonstration of DVB-T2-Lite, the new T2 profile which will enable cost reduced receiver implementations for applications such as mobile broadcasting, at the IBC show in Amsterdam on 9-13 September. DVB-T2-Lite is the latest version of the DVB-T2 specification, the technology standard that enabled High Definition on […]
India’s Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has issued an RFP to foreign satellite operators requesting extra transponder capacity in Ku and C-band transmission bands. There is a serious shortage of such capacity, including space for HDTV channels, but foreign operators are limited by India’s own licensing restrictions. There is a considerable waiting list of broadcasters looking […]
KIT Digital, Celvision Technologies, a Chinese leader in 2D to 3D conversion services, and imcube labs, a global leader in 2D to 3D conversion software technology, have announced the three companies are teaming up to co-develop an end-to-end solution that joins content services and platform technology to enable any media company, device manufacturer, network operator […]