The world’s cinemas are abandoning celluloid film as an exhibition medium at a rapid rate. Research company IHS-Screen Digest has reported that early 2012 will see the number of ‘digital’ screens exceeding the number of celluloid projection screens for the first time. Having reached this tipping point the downward spiral of celluloid use will see […]
Humax and Opera Software have announced that the HD set-top-boxes (STB) model, ‘iCord HD+/ME, IR-2020HD’, powered by Opera’s browser technology is now available in the Middle East and will soon appear in other regions as well. This HD set-top-box features the Humax TV Portal, which enables viewers to have a more enhanced experience of full […]
Great Lakes Data System (GLDS), a provider of billing, subscriber management and provisioning systems for global broadband providers, has revealed that its flagship WinCable subscriber management and billing system has been integrated with Clearleap’s Stream On Demand Solution. The Stream On Demand solution is a cloud-based IP content management and delivery system that enables television […]
Incognito Software, an industry leader of broadband provisioning and service fulfillment solutions, has entered an agreement with Applied Broadband, the IPDR technology and market leader, to partner on a joint subscriber consumption management solution for cable operators. Under the agreement, Pipeline Broadband Intelligence, an IPDR collection and analysis suite from Applied Broadband will be integrated […]
The European Commission has made a clear call to Member States to put in place procedures to promote coexistence between new and existing services to achieve the Digital Agenda. But the latest text of the new Radio Spectrum Policy Programme (RSPP) falls short of capitalising upon efficient use of spectrum if new services interfere with […]
Kabel Deutschland has announced it generated revenue of €830.1 million in the first half of its fiscal year ending 31 March 2011, an increase of 5.6 per cent on the year-ago period. Net profit reached €44.9 million, compared to a loss of €8.6 million twelve months previously. Kabel Deutschland said it invested a total of […]
Portugal Telecom’s pay-TV service Meo has surpassed one million customers, three and a half years since launching. At the end of the 3Q 2011, Meo customers represented around 93 per cent of Portugal Telecom’s fixed broadband customers and 38 per cent of fixed lines. Net additions since the beginning of October 2011 surpassed 25,000 customers. […]
BT has hired Virgin Media’s Executive Director, Commercial, TV and Online Alex Green to help drive the telco’s next-generation TV offering. He will be focused on building on the success of BT Vision and developing the company’s involvement in the YouView IPTV service, which is scheduled for launch in 2012. At Virgin Media, Green was […]
Broadband provider TalkTalk is to launch an in-house trial of YouView in early 2012. The broadband provider said it will launch a “friends and family” trial of the service in the first quarter next year, although the proposed launch date will likely be in January. TalkTalk will give around 3,000 of its YouView STBs, made […]
ONO, the largest cable operator in Spain, and TiVo have announced their next generation hybrid television offering is now available to ONO subscribers in major Spanish cities, Madrid and Barcelona. ONO plans to also extend TiVo to its entire fibre optic network within the coming months. ONO will deploy a set top box offering their […]