Advanced Television

India: Ten covers Moto GP

The new season of the FIM MotoGP World Championship will begin this weekend, with the Commercial Bank Grand Prix of Qatar in Doha. MotoGP fans in India won’t miss a minute of the action, with all race weekends being covered in full on Ten Sports, starting with the qualifying session on March 28th and concluding […]

March 26, 2015

Kaltura enables native video on Facebook

Kaltura, the video technology platform, hasunveiled a new video Distribution Connector that allows customers to publish native video directly to Facebook from Kaltura. With the new Connector, Kaltura publishers can continue to use Kaltura’s platform, applications and API as their primary video management solution while harnessing the powerful reach of sharing social video content on […]

March 26, 2015

VeEX announces powerful V-Scope fibre inspection utility

VeEX, a global player in Telecom, CATV, Fibre and Broadband Access, has announced the general availability of V-Scope, a powerful fibre connection inspection utility for use with VeEX test sets, smartphone or tablet devices. The V-Scope system provides fast, comprehensive and objective analysis of fibre connector end-faces using hassle-free auto focus image capture technology. The […]

March 26, 2015

Dalet wins Swedish Radio newsroom contract

Sveriges Radio AB/Swedish Radio (SR), the national radio broadcaster of Sweden, is to base its newsroom computer system (NRCS) on Dalet News Suite powered by the Dalet Galaxy platform. The large-scale NRCS project for 1,700 users is spread over 25 geographical locations in Sweden and replaces the corporation’s existing ENPS system. Deployed on a virtual […]

March 26, 2015

Anvato featured as launch partner for new Facebook Video API

Anvato, the TV Everywhere platform provider, has implemented the latest Facebook video API, introduced at the F8 conference in San Francisco. This integration provides Anvato customers with native video ingest and publishing capabilities on Facebook from the Anvato software platform, as well as advanced features that enhance user engagement. With more than three billion video […]

March 26, 2015

ZOO Digital processes 50m subtitles and captions

ZOO Digital has processed 50 million subtitles and captions for major media producers and distributors, confirming ZOO’s position as one of the world’s leading subtitling and captioning service providers. By combining both production and management services, ZOO offers subtitling and captioning with a difference. Its full service approach, powered by innovative ZOOsubs and ZOOcore technology, […]

March 26, 2015

Global pay-TV subs to surpass 1.1bn in 2020

According to ABI Research, the worldwide pay-TV market grew at a steady rate of 4 per cent in 2014 to reach 923.5 million subscribers. “Despite the growth in subscriber base, weak currency exchange rates resulted in a slower increase of pay-TV market service revenue. Worldwide the pay-TV market generated $257 billion in 2014 and is […]

March 25, 2015

EC: ‘Yes net neutrality, No geoblocking’

The European Commission has reiterated its call for strong net neutrality and an open market for digital media with an end to geo blocking. EC VP and digital single market commissioner Andrus Ansip told a European Voice event on Creating Europe’s Digital Highways: “On net neutrality, there are three elements we should address: firstly, we […]

March 25, 2015

RTVE exempted from VAT

The Spanish government is to inject new public funds into broadcaster RTVE, operator of the public channels La 1 and La 2 among other channels, by freeing it from paying VAT (value-added tax). The TV company will save €91.7 million which will mitigate its weak financial situation with a loss of €133 million in 2014. […]

March 25, 2015From David Del Valle in Madrid