Reports out of Manila suggest that the Philippines will badly miss the June 2015 ITU-mandated digital switchover. The country’s National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) admits that it might not even make a 2020 date. Alvin Bernard Blanco, chief of the NTC’s Broadcast Services Division, told local press that the switch-over could take another 5-10 years, and […]
Indian media and entertainment company Zee Entertainment Enterprises has reported a 44.5 per cent jump in its net profit for the quarter ended December 31st 2014. The net profit for the company stood at Rs 308.61 crore (€40.3m) as against Rs 213.59 crore for the corresponding quarter of last year. Total income from operations for […]
now TV, Hong Kong’s largest quad-play pay-TV provider, has enhanced its on-demand library with the introduction of BBC, Disney Movies On Demand, FOX and WarnerTV on-demand services. now TV customers can now enjoy a selection of premium content from these content providers via the now TV set-top box or smart devices at no additional charge. […]
Multicom Entertainment Group, a global distribution company founded by veteran TV executive Irv Holender, has announced the launch of a series of Internet VoD channels through a partnership with Gbox, a venture backed online video platform based in Silicon Valley. The two companies’ partnership represents a disruptive model in digital content monetisation and distribution. It […]
Video software processing, delivery and personalisation expert Envivio has revealed that French mobile phone, Internet and IPTV service provider Bouygues Telecom has selected Envivio Muse VoD encoding software to power its multi-screen video services in a fully virtualised software environment. This deployment was recently launched using VMWare virtualisation and Envivio video processing solutions. Bouygues Telecom […]
du, the Saudia-Arabian telco, and Akamai Technologies have announced that Selevision, the Saudi Arabian on demand service provider, has selected the companies’ content delivery services to support OTT delivery of its channels throughout the MENA region. As part of the agreement, du’s broadcasting services division will provide first class CDN services from Akamai to Selevision, […]
Freesat, the subscription free satellite TV service, is sponsoring ITV’s National Television Awards on January 21st. The National Television Awards will host the biggest stars of Britain’s best-loved shows at The O2 London, live on ITV. Freesat’s sponsorship of the National Television Awards includes branded bumpers at the beginning and end of each break. The […]
Skyline Communications, global leader in end-to-end multi-vendor network management and OSS solutions for the satellite, broadcast, IPTV and HFC broadband industries, announces that one of the leading telecommunications operators in Russia and CIS countries has deployed the DataMiner end-to-end multi-vendor network management platform to monitor and control the equipment in its satellite earth station in […]
Playwire, has revealed that the Bolt Video Player has had a major overhaul. The new Bolt Video Player can do all of the same great things as the previous versions such as manage, distribute, monetise and analyse videos but now Bolt 3.0 has some key new features to make the video player even better, New […]
Advanced Television talks to Yvette Kanouff, SVP Cisco Service Provider Video Software and Solutions, about Cisco’s increasing commitment to the cloud, V2P and the benefit of comprehensive virtualization, RDK and bringing Internet speed innovation to cable, data security in the age of the IoE and encouraging more women into technology careers. [bitsontherun VJ0BU0SB-Nz9lx6T9]