Advanced Television

Super Bowl drives US TV sales

A survey by TNS Global buying trends for TVs in the US, especially related to the upcoming Super Bowl. With TV purchases increasing each January (1 million in 2005 to over 7 million in 2013), the survey verifies the growth claiming it’s now the leading time of year that Americans say they will buy a […]

January 21, 2014By Nik Roseveare

Stofa deploys Cisco’s CCAP

Danish broadband and cable TV-provider Stofa has deployed Cisco’s Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP) solution, enabling it to simultaneously handle VoD and high-speed broadband traffic within the same access platform. The new solution is based on Cisco’s Modular CCAP offering and will enable Stofa to reduce operational costs, double subscriber broadband speeds and develop innovative […]

January 21, 2014

Exterity partners with Hambisana

Exterity, provider of enterprise IPTV technologies for the secure distribution of live, on-demand and recorded video over IP, has confirmed the launch of a joint offering with Hambisana, a provider of technology and services with a particular focus on DVB over IP, to offer Sub-Saharan companies flexible IPTV systems. Exterity systems are already used by […]

January 21, 2014

GSMA joins Alliance for Affordable Internet

The GSMA has announced its membership in the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), a diverse global coalition of over 50 members committed to driving down the cost of Internet access in developing countries via regulatory and policy reform. The GSMA will work closely with A4AI to identify policy and regulatory barriers to Internet access and […]

January 21, 2014

httvLink on new STM cable chipset

httv has announced the availability of its “httvLink” Open Middleware on the new cable-market-dedicated STMicroelectronics STiH273 chipset to provide an advanced and cost-effective HbbTV solution for the pay-TV Cable market. httvLink is an Open Middleware for connected TV receivers. It is based on Linux and HTML5 solutions. Fully compatible with HbbTV, the growing standard for […]

January 21, 2014

Rovi renews patent agreement with Sony

Rovi has renewed the licence agreement with Sony Corporation for interactive programme guide patents and technologies. The agreement continues to provide Sony with a licence to Rovi’s guide patent portfolio for its consumer electronics devices worldwide and the ability to use related Rovi guide and metadata technologies. “Our continued collaboration with Sony, a leading manufacturer […]

January 21, 2014

Telestream boosts GPU acceleration for Lightspeed Server

Telestream, a provider of video transcoding and workflow solutions, has announced a new Lightspeed Server model. Now available, Lightspeed K20 Server utilises cutting-edge technologies from NVidia and Intel to further boost video processing and H.264 encoding speeds for its family of Vantage video transcoding and workflow automation software products.  . “At Telestream, we are constantly […]

January 21, 2014

Entropic solutions for India pay-TV market

Entropic, an expert in semiconductor solutions for the connected home, announced the availability of its award-winning c.LINK Broadband Access products for the India Pay-TV market. Entropic will have its Broadband Access products on display at the 22nd Convergence India 2014 Conference, held in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, from January 21-23, 2014. Entropic’s c.LINK technology is […]

January 21, 2014

Dune HD partners with Ekioh for high end user interface performance

Ekioh is pleased to announce that Dune HD has deployed its twin rendering engine technology on their popular TV series set top boxes, opening the market for advanced middleware implementations featuring high graphics performance. Dune HD selected Ekioh’s twin engine solution because it allows middleware providers to exploit the optimal performance of Ekioh SVG for […]

January 21, 2014

DTT delivers £80bn to UK economy

A report commissioned by Digital UK – the company that manages strategy and policy for digital terrestrial television (DTT) in the UK – reveals the major economic benefits that Freeview and other terrestrial TV services deliver to the UK. The report – The value of Digital Terrestrial Television in an era of increasing demand for […]

January 20, 2014By Colin Mann