Japan’s Internal Affairs & Communications Ministry has issued the most bullish forecast yet of the country’s take-up of Ultra-HD, in both 4K and 8K versions. The ministry says that both 4K and 8K experimental broadcasts will start in 2016 paving the way for full-scale transmissions – in both formats – starting in 2018. All broadcasting […]
Octoshape, an industry leader in cloud-based, over-the-top (OTT) stream acceleration and contribution technologies for broadcasters, enterprises and carriers, and Norigin Media, a TV Everywhere company that enables multi-screen TV services and products, today announced a partnership to help premium content owners and broadcasters accelerate the launch of new, global multiscreen OTT streaming services to consumers […]
Steve Dalby, Chief Regulatory Officer at Australian ISP iiNet, has once again turned to the company blog to attack federal government proposals to reform copyright laws. In his latest post – Paying the price of online policing – Dalby, a regular blogger on copyright and piracy issues, notes that iiNet has made a submission on […]
Video technology specialist Kaltura has unveiled Kaltura OTT TV, its next-generation, end-to-end pay-OTT TV solution. The result of integrating pay-OTT technology from the company’s recent acquisition of Tvinci with Kaltura’s video platform, Kaltura claims the solution is the most advanced and comprehensive on the market today. It includes advanced monetisation, social and personalisation features; innovative […]
Late on September 5 news emerged which suggested that DISH chairman Charlie Ergen had “contacted” wireless giant T-Mobile “according to people familiar with the matter”. Reportedly, Ergen has told T-Mobile’s majority (56.6 per cent) owner, Deutsche Telekom, that he is willing to put together an offer. Also interested in the T-Mobile asset is French telco […]
SpaceX, the new rocket launch business owned by billionaire PayPal founder Elon Musk, successfully launched the joint AsiaSat-6/Thaicom-7 satellite. The J-V satellite was built by Space Systems/Loral. SpaceX’s giant Falcon-9 rocket successfully lifted off at 1am local time (05.00 UTC) on early Sunday morning, September 7, from the Cape Canaveral spaceport in Florida. The AsiaSat-6 […]
The legal wrangling over alleged misuse by Loral Space and its subsidiary Space Systems/Loral of patented intellectual property owned by ViaSat of California has been settled. ViaSat gets $100 million in compensation and all the litigation ceases. The initial award to ViaSat of £283 million has been set aside. The writs, claims and counter claims […]
Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, has unveiled the profile of VCAS Ultra, its next-generation Video Content Authority System (VCAS) architecture. Capitalising on the clear trend towards IP- and software-based technologies as the foundation of future of pay-TV service delivery, VCAS Ultra is designed […]
The BBC has launched a further twelve national DAB transmitters bringing the total number of transmitters to 265. The move is part of the current phase of the Corporation’s digital radio network expansion plan bringing a further 2 million people into the coverage area and increasing coverage from 93 per cent to 97 per cent […]
Spanish satellite operator Hispasat is to offer a free test channel to enable Latin American pay-TV providers and distributors to air 4K programming in the region. Speaking at the Congresso Latino-Americano Satélites conference in Rio de Janeiro, Elena Pisonero, chairman of Hispasat, told news agency Efe that the operator wanted to encourage regional players to […]