thePlatform, the white-label video publishing company and independent subsidiary of Comcast, has signed an expanded, multiyear agreement with BT. Specifically, thePlatform’s mpx system will serve as the cloud-based, central video publishing system for BT TV, and support other video-related initiatives. Previously, thePlatform served as the back-end video management system for BT’s IP-based TV services, which […]
Com Hem has introduced a free upgrade to 50 Mbit/s for customers who currently have a lower broadband speed. With the upgrade, Com Hem says its minimum speed is now five times that offered by competitors. The company has also reduced the overall price level for most of its offering. Com Hem launches a new […]
Elemental Technologies, a supplier of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, has announced that Deutsche Glasfaser, a FTTH network provider, is using Elemental video processing for delivery of linear TV, radio, VoD and multiscreen services to regional subscribers in Germany. The Deutsche Glasfaser IPTV service will include around 100 SD channels, 50 HD and […]
Harmonic, a provider of video compression solutions, has surpassed 100,000 channels shipped with its Electra broadcast encoder family. Since its launch in 2004, the Electra platform has been deployed by broadcast, satellite, telco, and cable operators worldwide to deliver SD, HD, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4 AVC services. “The video compression market is very competitive and Harmonic’s […]
This week from August 26th to August 28th, Akamai Technologies, a leading provider of media cloud services, will help deliver live video streaming for the Fashion Week Stockholm. MEC, the producers of Stockholm’s Fashion Week are leveraging Akamai’s Media Delivery Solutions to stream every fashion event through the official website, fashionweek.se, as well as to […]
EuroMedia July/August 2014 For every C-level executive who declares “The set-top box is dead” an analyst report suggests record sales. With content storage and intelligence increasingly in the cloud, and consumers wanting access on a range of devices around the home, what is the future for STBs, Home Gateways and Smart TVs? Euromedia asked a […]
As Netflix rapidly expands across Europe, the company will see its international subscriptions jump from one-tenth to one-fifth of total subscriptions, according to new analysis from research firm IHS. “Over the next four years, growth rates will accelerate,” said the report’s author, Richard Broughton, director of broadband analysis at IHS Technology.
The Channel 4 chief executive’s call for more protection to be given to public service broadcasters has been rebuffed by the trade body for the US media companies he criticised in his MacTaggart lecture. The Commercial Broadcasters Association (Coba), which represents US broadcasters operating in the UK including Fox, Discovery and NBC Universal, criticised David […]
Italy exceeded 500,000 optical fibre subscribers (FTTH and FTTC) at the end of June 2014, representing nearly a 50 per cent growth on the end of 2013, based on data published by the operators. In its half-yearly results, Fastweb says it had 110,000 subscribers on the new FTTC networks, in addition to the 300,000 on […]
A US court has delivered a further setback to Internet entertainment streaming service Aereo’s continued attempts to resume operations by being designated a cable company. Aereo suspended its operations June 28 following the Supreme Court copyright decision in favour of US broadcasters and has suggested that after the Supreme Court’s decision, Aereo should be recognised […]