Advanced Television

Amino returns to growth

Amino Technologies, the Cambridge-based specialist in digital entertainment solutions for IPTV, Internet TV and in-home multimedia distribution, has issued its full year figures. The company has continued to benefit from strong trading since the announcement made on October 13th and as such profit before tax for the year ended November 30th 2014 is expected to […]

December 4, 2014

Users want faster access to broadband status info

NetCracker has published the results of its 2014 Broadband Customer Experience Expectation Survey that polled more than 500 broadband subscribers about what they want most from their communications service providers (CSPs). Consumers were provided with a list of five possible options based on NetCracker’s expertise in enhancing broadband providers’ customer experience, care and support capabilities. […]

December 4, 2014

Thomson demos France DTTV

This week, Thomson Video Networks is conducting France’s first demonstration of high-quality video broadcast of five HD channels in a DTTV 24.8 Mbps multiplex, enabled by the company’s ViBE EM4000 premium HD/SD encoder and NetProcessor multiplexer/video processor. The demonstration is being managed by the HD Forum at the NRJ main broadcasting facility in Paris. Thomson […]

December 4, 2014

Walking Dead viewing record for Fox UK

The Walking Dead Season 5 has proven to be a ratings-hit for Fox UK, breaking several viewing-figure records for the channel and achieving its biggest ever audience numbers. Consolidated data reveals premières of the horror drama averaged 1.3 million viewers, and a total of 2 million viewers watched each episode including repeat viewings*.  The premières […]

December 4, 2014By Nik Roseveare

Visual Media takes majority stake in re:fine

US post-production and digital distribution facility Visual Data Media Services has acquired a majority stake in leading London-based content processing and digital-media provider re:fine. The deal will provide both partners access to each other’s markets, technologies and infrastructure. Both re:fine and Visual Data have established successful business models, client bases and third-party accreditations as preferred […]

December 4, 2014

Videology partners with Advirtuous

Newly launched Nordic advertising solutions provider, AdVirtuous, and Videology, the video advertising platforms, are partnering to bring programmatic video advertising solutions to advertisers, agencies and media companies in the Nordics. Working together, the two companies will be enabling the hundreds of publishers, premium brands and innovative agencies in the Nordic region to benefit from solutions […]

December 4, 2014

Dailymotion standardises on Unified Streaming for all live streaming

Dailymotion has selected Unified Streaming, a provider of cross-platform streaming technologies, for its live streaming Platform. Dailymotion provides a wide range of Live content such as Gaming tournaments, 24 hours news or cultural events. Dailymotion is very well adapted to the trend of online interaction with its community and offers a great variety of content […]

December 4, 2014

UKTV opens new HQ “built for innovation”

Where in London can you find the head of a 15 metre dead parrot, a knight in shining armour, and tables that pass through walls? It is at the brand new headquarters for multi-award winning media company, UKTV, whose mantra is to ‘Imagine more’. The doors to its inspirational and distinctive new 32,500 sq. ft. […]

December 4, 2014

Harvey the dog’s back in Thinkbox TV ad…and now he’s in love

First he used the power of TV advertising to get adopted from a dog’s home; then he used it to prevent his best friend Rabbit from being thrown in the bin; now Harvey the dog is coming back in his final Thinkbox TV advertising campaign, and this time he is using TV advertising to announce […]

December 4, 2014

Brits spend £398 a year on pay-TV

Sixty-two per cent of UK households pay for TV, spending an average of £33 (€42) per month but, according to new research from price comparison and switching service uSwitch.com, almost a third (30 per cent) claim it isn’t good value for money. TV users find

December 3, 2014