Eleven Sports selected Ideal Systems for live sports production of the 2017 Merlion Cup international basketball tournament which will be held in Singapore’s OCBC Arena from September 20th to 24th. Ideal Systems has conducted extensive field trials for its new Hybrid-IP live sports production system in Singapore. The field trials included producing live match coverage […]
PerceptionTV and XroadMedia have announced that the Perception platform will deliver advanced content discovery, recommendations and personalisation features using the Ncanto cloud solution from XroadMedia. Initial activity will be a joint promotional campaign during the last quarter of this year with integration and initial customer projects planned during Q1 2018. Perception delivers high quality multiscreen TV […]
VeEX, a global player in telecom, CaTV, fibre, transport and broadband access and a member of the FTTH Council Europe, will showcase several new products at the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) taking place at the Svenska Massan (Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre) located in Gothenburg, Sweden from September 18th – 20th. At booth […]
Insight TV, a producer and broadcaster of adventure travel and extreme sports genres in 4K, has signed a content distribution contract with SK Broadband and is utilising Media Excel’s HERO 4K HEVC Decoder product for this deployment. SK Broadband, the Seoul-based telco and one of the largest broadband operators in Korea, now distributes Insight TV’s […]
According to the Q2 2017 Global Video Index from video software and services provider Ooyala, video consumption on mobile devices stayed essentially flat in the second quarter of 2017. The quarter’s report also tracks global variances in video consumption including greater Q/Q growth for tablet viewing, mobile growth in global markets, as well as emerging […]
UK Culture Secretary Karen Bradley has suggested there would be regional economic benefits from relocating commercial Public Service Broadcaster Channel 4 and from increasing commissioning. Delivering a keynote address at the Royal Television Society’s (RTS) annual event in Cambridge, Bradley told delegates that she felt that TV production was excessively concentrated in London, noting that […]
Digital video consumption is viral and, according to a new study released by IBM and IBC, with more than half of the 21,000 consumers surveyed using mobiles every day to watch streaming videos, and that number is expected to grow 45 per cent in the next three years. Today, the
Vodafone has become the first ISP in Spain to launch speeds of 1Gbps through its optic fibre network – significantly up from the previous highest speed of 300 Mbps. Starting September 25th, the company will charge a fee ranging from €65 to €106 for the convergent package One L –which includes unlimited calls from the […]
According to a study by Eurodata TV Worldwide, in 2016 France was ranked third in the TV export rankings globally (excluding one-off programmes), up one place from 2015. English language exporters are largely ahead: the US exported more than 1,600 programmes and the UK over 1,100. Germany and Canada are ranking fourth and fifth with […]
Satellite operator Eutelsat confirmed at the IBC show in Amsterdam that its Sat.tv app, the smart programme guide available through tablets and smartphones, is now running on connected TVs using the HbbTV standard. Available for free channels broadcasting from Eutelsat’s HOTBIRD and 7/8° West video neighbourhoods, Sat.tv helps viewers browse through hundreds of free channels […]