Advanced Television

Roku powers Kwesé Play

Streaming platform provider Roku, and African media company Econet Media, have announced that both companies have entered a Roku Powered licence agreement for the launch of streaming TV service Kwesé Play. Econet Media is a subsidiary of Econet Global which owns the largest fibre backbone in Sub-Saharan Africa and operations in 12+ countries. The Kwesé […]

September 14, 2017Nick Snow @ IBC

Conax announces Arena flexible multiscreen hub

Conax, a Kudelski Group company and specialist in total content and service protection for digital entertainment services, has launched its modular multiscreen hub, Conax Arena, at IBC. The new end-2-end offering enables unique flexibility for operators and encompasses all key components needed to launch a complete multiscreen offering – reducing cost, complexity and time-to-market. Conax […]

September 14, 2017Colin Mann @ IBC

Agama, VisualOn partner to improve OTT

Agama Technologies, the specialist in video service quality and customer experience, and VisualOn, a multimedia software company that enables scalable, cross-platform media playback for global streaming media brands, are partnering to deliver a pre-integrated player SDK solution for efficient video service quality assurance for OTT providers. The pre-integration of Agama’s industry-leading video service assurance solution […]

September 14, 2017Colin Mann @ IBC

Síminn gets personal with XroadMedia

XroadMedia, specialists in building content discovery and recommendation solutions, and the telecom company Síminn have teamed up to provide a personal TV experience to consumers in Iceland. As a result of this partnership, Síminn has implemented XroadMedia’s advanced content discovery and recommendations solution, Ncanto, into their current IPTV offering. It allows users to easily find […]

September 14, 2017

Synaptics announces new 4K video processor for STB market

Synaptics, a developer of human interface solutions, has announced its new VideoSmart BG5CT multimedia solution featuring 4K Advanced HDR video processing for the global set-top-box market. This marks the company’s sixth-generation video processor technology and part of the award-winning multimedia portfolio recently acquired from Marvell’s Multimedia Solutions Business. The BG5CT is designed to enable Pay […]

September 14, 2017

PrimeTel gets major platform upgrade and Android STBs from SmartLabs

SmartLabs has announced a contract with PrimeTel for the upgrade of their existing interactive TV solution to SmartLabs’ SmartTUBE5 Multiscreen Solution and the delivery of SmartLabs latest UHD Android STB. PrimeTel will introduce applications for iOS and Android mobile phones and tablets as well as updated UIs for all STBs already deployed in the network. […]

September 14, 2017

NexGuard and Colorfront collaborate

NexGuard, a Kudelski company and provider of forensic watermarking technology and solutions, and Colorfront, a developer of high-performance, on-set dailies and transcoding systems for motion pictures, high-end episodic TV and commercials, today released a number of key updates to their joint solution launched in 2016, which add support for multi-layer watermarking workflows and offer  enhanced […]

September 14, 2017

Trace brings urban music to the world with Media Excel HERO encoders

here may not be an ‘I’ in team, but there must be a number three in their somewhere — the cooperative approach to problem solving by three digital-solutions industry leaders proves it. Since 2014, Simplestream, a leading provider of video services for the media and entertainment industry, has been working with the experts at digital […]

September 14, 2017

Kaltura, Oregan collaborate for advancing cloud TV transformation

Kaltura, the video technology provider, and Oregan Networks, a pioneering British technology company which specialises in pay TV client solutions, have jointly announced a strategic collaboration for advancing cloud TV transformation. The two companies have developed a solution that enables service providers to transform their legacy services into hybrid cloud TV services while protecting existing […]

September 14, 2017

Edgeware tracks pirates with new forensic watermarking solution

Edgeware, the pioneer of TV-specific content delivery networks, has integrated ContentArmor’s bitstream-based forensic watermarking solution into its TV CDN technology. The functionality can be deployed for IPTV and OTT services and will be demonstrated for the first time at IBC2017 on Edgeware’s stand – 14.F15.  This new capability is built on ContentArmor’s bitstream-based watermarking system. […]

September 14, 2017