A authoritative study in the journal Energy Efficiency, and referenced in ‘Display Daily’, states that the Gaming community collectively consume about 75 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2012, the latest year where data can be analysed. Authors Evan Mills (from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) and Nathanial Mills (from GreeningTheBeast.com) say that around 1 billion […]
Harmonic, a specialist in video delivery infrastructure, has announced that Japanese cable TV operator EHIME CATV has deployed Harmonic’s Electra X3 advanced media processor to support a trial of the country’s first live, full-frame 4K Ultra HD channel. Utilising the Electra X3 media processor to encode UHD content using the HEVC Main 10 codec, EHIME […]
Finnish technology company Booxmedia, part of the Amino group, and Verimatrix, a specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for digital TV services, have announced that DNA has upgraded its OTT service, DNA TV, with Booxmedia’s OTT platform, which is now secured by the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) for Internet TV solution. The integrated […]
T3Media, a specialist in title management, delivery and monetisation services for sports, media, and entertainment companies, will provide video content management and metadata services for the USTA & US Open. The golf event takes place August 31st – September 13th at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens, New […]
Advanced Television talks to Peter Alexander, SVP, CMO at Harmonic about the deal with WISI of Germany that sees WISI OEM Harmonic’s Digital Access Architecture switching from fibre deep in the network for coax distribution in multiple dwellings. The idea is to take a ‘micro headend’ as close to the subscriber as possible increasing efficiency […]
Advanced Television talks to Cornel Ciorcirlan, CTO EMEA, about the major benefit of Network PVR. Cornel confirms that Arris’s own Consumer Entertainment Index survey shows viewers dislike managing a full PVR disk and want more storage and a better experience. The answer, he says, is NPVR which has major benefits for the subscriber and for […]
Advanced Television talks to Yves Padrines, VP & GM SP Video EMEAR, about Cisco’s Video Network Index, its prediction of a Zettabyte of data within five years and how managing video in the cloud will be the only way to cope when there are three times as many devices in the world as human beings. […]
Sky’s ground-breaking ‘Project Ethan’ set-top box is ready to be announced shortly, according to widespread media reports over the weekend. The UK’s Sunday Telegraph said the unit, now dubbed the SkyQ box, will enable users to record four channels at the same time and – at long last – permit subscribers to transfer some programming […]
Ofcom has published a supplementary consultation seeking further evidence as part of its review of the pay-TV ‘wholesale must-offer’ remedy. The review, which Ofcom first consulted on in December 2014, will determine whether regulation requiring Sky to offer its Sky Sports 1 and 2 channels to other pay-TV providers, to ensure fair and effective competition […]
BARB has announced that the beta version of the TV Player Report is to be released in September, providing official figures on the level of viewing to on-demand and live-streamed content through online TV Player apps. The TV Player Report is the first set of BARB data to focus on viewing that takes place on […]