Elemental Technologies, the supplier of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, has received the Technology Leadership Award in the Global Video Encoding and Transcoding Market from Frost & Sullivan. “Elemental, with its strong growth and focus on innovation, is a clear leader in the market, the fastest growing video processing company worldwide, and is solving […]
Senior executives at the BBC have revealed further details of the Corporation’s proposals to close BBC as a broadcast channel and reinvent it online. The changes – which are subject to approval by the BBC Trust – will generate savings of £50 million, which will be reinvested into BBC Three online, as well as strengthening […]
Pirate Bay has been taken offline following a police raid in Sweden. Servers were seized after a complaint from the Rights Alliance. According to Torrent Freak the police operation took place in an area in Nacka, south-east of Stockholm. The area’s mountainous terrain is used as a natural cooling system for computer servers. The Pirate […]
Time Warner chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes says HBO’s OTT channel will open up the premium channel not only to the 10 million broadband-only homes in the country, but will attract many of the 70 million basic cable customers that don’t subscribe to the channel. HBO will initially market the channel (that launches next year) […]
Vodafone Spain is reportedly set to dismiss 1,000 workers over the coming months as a result of its acquisition of Spanish cable provider Ono earlier this year. Combined the two companies currently have around 6,000 workers, with Vodafone accounting for 3,500 employees and Ono the remaining 2,500. The aim is to implement this measure by […]
The French subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) market is expected to grow by 25 per cent to 35 million by the end of this year, according to consulting company NPA’s report entitled ‘Tendances 2020, previsions 2018 et outils Big Data‘. This would be a significant jump compared
The French 4EVER consortium, which is testing and developing technologies for Ultra-HD, says that it captured a sporting event and music concert in the UHD Phase 2 format. UHD Phase 2 demands higher dynamic range in its image capture and high frame-rates. Julien Libouban, a member of the 4EVER technical team, says that the concert […]
O3b is a constellation of Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellites backed by Luxembourg-based operator SES. Unlike geostationary satellites which orbit at very high levels above the Earth, these MEOs fly around the planet at heights of 5009 miles and at very high speed. Nevertheless, SES has demonstrated that O3b can also comfortably handle HD video […]
US streaming service Hulu has partnered with Discovery Communications to offer select content from January 1st. Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Investigation Discovery, Science, Destination America, and Discovery en Espanol shows will run on the service. Hulu will also have exclusive SVoD rights to show including Deadliest Catch, Mythbusters and Treehouse Masters. “Discovery Communications is […]
French satellite builder Thales Alenia is suspending an agreement with Russia to supply satellites. The first craft to be affected by the decision is a military so-called ‘Spy’ satellite for the Russian military. The decision follows on from a report by the US intelligence services suggesting that the French satellites contain US-designed or supplied space […]