Swedish CryptoGuard keeps growing and is now establishing a new sales and support office in India, with the latest recruitment of Vinayak Hadkar as Sales Director and Chetan Mehra as Support Manager. Vinayak has many years of experience from the CAS industry in Asia and Chetan has great experience from a larger operator in India. […]
Just being able to deliver digital content is no longer enough. People expect every organization to have a compelling, interactive, and engaging digital experience. The problem is that those same people want more. The experience has to be instantaneous…just like turning on the television. ISay hello to the “Broadcast Quality Generation.” Download the whitepaper from […]
Satellite operator SES says it now has secured contracts for six Ultra-HD channels, five of which are already on air. CEO Karim Michel Sabbagh said: “SES has continued to be productive in Q3. SES has been first out of the starting gate in the commercial introduction of Ultra HD, building on the milestone of Europe’s […]
Sky is set to unveil its next generation Sky STB on November 18th. A cryptic invite to a product launch invites journalists to “see how we’re changing TV again”, and introduces the hashtag #SetTVFree. Tentatively dubbed “SkyQ”, the STB is reported to offer multi-screen viewing so family members can each watch different shows on varying […]
Netherland’s-based 4K newcomer Insight will launch its all-UHD service in the next few days on Russia’s Tricolor DTH platform. The channel is already broadcasting from SES Astra’s 19.2 degree orbital slot, and will shortly start transmissions over India. Insight is firmly set on an expansion curve and while CEO Mariam Zamaray says she wants the […]
Some 4.3 million Spaniards are regular connected TV viewers, according to a study conducted by trade body IAB Spain along with Smartclip and Elogia. The report found that 64 per cent of connected users now access connected TV services through smart TVs, followed by gaming consoles (29 per cent), PCs (28 per cent), hybrid DTT […]
Stephen Spengler, CEO at Intelsat, told analysts that the satellite industry in general is suffering an imbalance in supply over demand. “We have an imbalance of supply and demand globally in pretty much most regions that relates to traditional satellite capacity. It’s a tougher environment from a pricing standpoint as a result. What’s coming up […]
Jeremy Clarkson, the former Top Gear presenter who was sacked by the BBC, is starring in a commercial for Amazon’s streaming device, the Fire TV Stick. The ad, which will air on ITV on October 31st during the Rugby World Cup Final, shows the TV host using the device Amazon’s fastest-selling product to date and […]
Connected TV, a source of streaming video that the industry has been slow to monetise via advertising, is moving into the programmatic realm as barriers to integration dissolve. The amount of CTV inventory available to programmatic advertisers is expected to surge throughout the remainder or 2015, with video inventory management platform SpotX partnering with two […]
Giant screen specialist IMAX’s CEO Richard Gelfond told analysts that the theatre operator’s past few months had been “historic”. “In addition to strong third quarter results on both the top line and bottom line, I’m proud to say we installed our 1,000th IMAX theater; doubling our theatre network in four years. And most recently, we […]