More than 100 members of the US creative community have signed a letter to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) thanking him for his leadership in urging the credit card industry to implement voluntary steps that can prevent their services from being misused to fund pirate websites. On November 25, Senator Leahy wrote to credit card company […]
Rentrak, a specialist in precisely measuring movies and TV everywhere, today announced that it has been granted another patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office. U.S. Patent No. 8,930,978 is for detecting and correcting TV viewership levels caused by missing or “dropped” set-top box viewing information. Given that cable, telco and satellite operators may […]
GlobalPlatform has announced the further growth of its membership with the addition of Verimatrix, a specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services around the globe. As an Observer Member of GlobalPlatform – the organisation which standardises the management of applications on secure chip technology – Verimatrix will focus its attention […]
IMAX is leaving the Toronto stock exchange via a voluntary de-listing. Instead the giant theatre screen specialists will focus on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) where it also has a listing. The switch will be made on January 19th, and Canadian shareholders will automatically be able to trade on the NYSE. IMAX, in a […]
BT Sport, the NBA and Facebook are combining to deliver sports fans an innovative digital experience of this year’s NBA Global Games London at The O2. Between 7.15pm and 8pm on January 15th, ‘The BT Sport Facebook Lounge’ will feature live appearances from many of the celebrities attending the event. NBA Global Games London 2015 […]
Pac-12 Networks has formed a partnership with Elemental Technologies, a supplier of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, to provide live simulcast streaming to its Pac-12 Now TV Everywhere service as well as the video processing for its YouTube international subscription service. Each year, Pac-12 Networks will deliver live coverage of 850 sporting events […]
Broadpeak, a provider of content delivery network (CDN) technologies and live and VoD servers has announced new impulsive recording capabilities for its cloud-PVR solution. By enabling video content for multiple end-users to be recorded and stored only once, either on managed or unmanaged networks, Broadpeak’s impulsive recording technology significantly reduces operators’ storage expenses. “Time-based and […]
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, will be keynoting the inaugural Apps World Germany event in Berlin this April. He will be joined by founder of Lionhead Studios; Peter Molyneux OBE and co-founder of Games Workshop; Ian Livingstone. The event taking place at CityCube, Berlin on April 22-23 is set to attract over 6,000 attendees over the […]
The main goal of EUMSSI (Event Understanding through Multimodal Stream Interpretation) is to develop technologies for identifying and aggregating data presented as unstructured information in sources of very different nature (video, image, audio, speech, text and social context), including both online (e.g., YouTube) and traditional media (e.g. audio visual repositories), and dealing with information of […]
Increasing use of Wi-Fi technology, 4G/LTE mobile broadband and growing use of different wireless devices can create problems for TV signal reception. The risk of interference can be minimized by changing existing cabling to a triple-shielded Class A+ cable and a matching connector. TRIAX has developed a new state-of-the-art push-on IEC connector, which requires no […]