Advanced Television

Síminn gears up for 4K multiscreen services with Broadpeak Multicast ABR Technology

Broadpeak, a provider of content delivery network (CDN) technologies and live and VoD servers for content providers and pay-TV operators worldwide, has announced that Icelandic telecommunications operator Síminn has launched a service supporting 4K video content with new set-top boxes (STBs) capable of reception through Broadpeak’s nanoCDN solution. Leveraging home networks, nanoCDN enables Síminn to […]

May 24, 2017

Teleste and DNA to complete DNA’s ultra-modern cable network in Southern Finland

Teleste, a provider of video and broadband technologies and related services, has revealed that it has completed deployment of DOCSIS 3.1 -compatible network products to a cable network upgrade project started in 2016 by DNA, Finland’s largest cable operator and the leading pay TV provider in both cable and terrestrial networks. The upgrade embraces 1500 […]

May 24, 2017

Object Matrix and Fortium Technologies partner for content security

Object Matrix and Fortium Technologies have launched a joint solution offering secure media management for digital content archive storage. It combines security certified solutions from each provider to offer protection of media assets throughout their lifecycle. The solution combines the MatrixStore object storage and Digital Content Governance platform from Object Matrix, which enables immediate, yet […]

May 24, 2017

ABOX42 addresses pay-TV challenges & innovations during industry breakfast at ANGA COM 2017

ABOX42, a supplier of OTT, IPTV, hybrid DVB set-top-boxes and Operator Smart Home Solutions, will host its fifth annual IPTV/OTT industry breakfast with technology partners Zattoo and Verimatrix during ANGA COM 2017, Wednesday, May 31 from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. at Koelnmesse, Congress Center North in Cologne, Germany. The event will feature a complimentary breakfast, […]

May 24, 2017

SERAPHIC launches new lightweight Sraf Lite browser at BroadcastAsia2017

SERAPHIC, a digital TV browser and “TV+ Internet” solution provider, has launched Sraf Lite browser, a brand new lightweight HTML5 browser, at Asia’s largest broadcasting exhibition BroadcastAsia2017 in Singapore. According to Xinwen, Xue, VP Product Management at SERAPHIC, Sraf Lite browser is “optimized for DTV and STB products and able to run with quite low […]

May 24, 2017

Amazon’s ‘live TV’ plans for Europe

Amazon has quietly been assembling live TV channels to offer as à la carte options to its Amazon Prime Video service.  The service, launching in UK, Germany and Austria echoes that launched in the US in 2015. Amazon’s new platform, which is being delivered through the existing Prime Video app, allows customers to select from more […]

May 23, 2017By Chris Forrester

Older viewers embrace catch-up, but not SVoD

A study of TV viewing habits in 13 countries by Ampere Analysis reveals that people aged 55-64 are yet to embrace SVoD services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime, preferring linear TV channels and their catch-up services. In the US, only two in 10 people aged 55-64 in the viewed Netflix in the past month, […]

May 23, 2017

BT: “IPTV can lead to fully-connected population”

Helen Burrows, Head of Policy at BT, has called for the UK government to take policy decisions that she suggests would lead to a more connected society, building on the UK telco’s IPTV network. Delivering a keynote address at the IDATE Digiworld Summit in London, Burrows noted that despite broadband availability of around 95 per […]

May 23, 2017By Colin Mann

Wowza: “Low latency crucial for sports streaming apps”

In the past, the only way to catch a big game was to tune in on network TV; for smaller events, cable or satellite television was necessary. But today, many Americans are “cutting the cord” and forgoing traditional television altogether: 24 per cent don’t have a cable or satellite TV subscription. What’s more, 64 per cent […]

May 23, 2017