As part of US Ambassador Gary Locke’s Roundtable on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Protection, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) together with major Chinese online video sites Youku, Sohu, iQiyi, and LeTV have unveiled a ‘Thank You’ video featuring nearly 100 of China’s leading actors and filmmakers. Heeding a call from the MPA, China’s film community […]
Online video specialist Ooyala has unveiled its new solution in content discovery designed to enables publishers to improve dramatically monetisation of multi-screen video. In pre-release with select customers, the technology is already driving a four-fold increase in consumer engagement, meaning longer viewing periods, more videos completed and increased revenue. As the newest addition to its […]
Cablemás, Mexico’s 2nd largest cable operator, with 1.2 million cable subscribers, continues to provide a benchmark for digital TV and advanced consumer services in Latin America’s largest market for pay-tv. Displaying one of the fastest expansions in today’s DVB market, a strategic partnership with market-leading service, technology and hardware providers Conax, and Evolution Digital LLC […]
North Korea’s entry into the world’s portfolio of rocket launch suppliers failed early Friday April 13, when its rocket blew up around 60 to 90 seconds into its satellite launching mission. The Unha-3 rocket failed despite North Korea’s confidence that – this time – everything would go well. Indeed, it was so confident of success […]
Skyline Communications, global leader in multi-vendor network management solutions for the IPTV, HFC broadband, broadcast and satellite industry, is showcasing at NAB 2012 in Las Vegas the 7.0 release of its renowned and globally deployed DataMiner multi-vendor network management platform. This latest release of the platform, that single-handed redefined the way operators manage their technology […]
A French research consortium – 4EVER – has been established to advance the technologies supporting the production and delivery of Ultra-HDTV. Compression solutions specialist ATEME has confirmed its participation in the ambitious, three year multi-million Euro research programme seeking to reduce the bandwidth required for the delivery of Ultra High Definition Television (U-HDTV) using High […]
Liberty Global’s European cable operations in Germany (Unitymedia and Kabel BW), Netherlands (UPC), Austria (UPC) and Switzerland (upc cablecom) have reached agreements with ESPN for carriage of sports channels. With a combination of renewals and new launches, ESPN America HD, ESPN America and ESPN Classic will be available to European households that get their television […]
French media and entertainment technology specialist Technicolor hopes to find a partner for its loss-making set-top box business this year and is in talks with several parties, its chief executive Frederic Rose told Reuters. The company is also seeking to dispose of its French set-top box (STB) factory – where a planned production shutdown threatens […]
Recent findings from Parks Associates research suggests that over 25 per cent of all video viewing in US broadband households now occurs on platforms other than the television, such as PCs, smartphones, and tablets. The research firm’s analysts will discuss the new research during the special session – The Future of OTT Video: Monetization Strategies […]
Bahrain is threatening to quit the Arabsat satellite consortium, unhappy that Arabsat has, in its view, failed to take down certain channels that are broadcasting content not to Bahrain’s liking. Satellite operator Arabsat is owned by a consortium of Arab telecommunications companies, mostly themselves owned by their governments. Bahrain says Arabsat is “failing to take […]