Sony Pictures Television Networks has announced that POP Fun, its 7-day catch-up service for its portfolio of kids channels, will now be accessible via YouView on Sony BRAVIA Android TVs and on Freesat. Top shows from SPTN’s kids channels, POP, Tiny Pop and POP Max – ranging from Power Rangers to My Little Pony – […]
TV5MONDE has signed a long-term distribution contract with SES to broadcast three major free-to-air channels to the French-speaking and Francophile public in sub-Saharan Africa. As part of the agreement, TV5MONDE will use the SES-5 satellite to broadcast three channels: its main channel TV5MONDE Afrique, as well as two themed channels, the youth channel TiVi5MONDE and […]
DNA has become the first operator in Finland to broadcast the Viasat Ultra HD channel via its cable TV network. The 4K sports channel is available to all DNA cable TV network customers who have subscribed to one of the Viasat sports packages and have a 4K-ready receiver. Viasat Ultra HD is added automatically to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]