Advanced Television

Discovery concludes Olympics FTA deal with Armenia

Discovery Communications’ has concluded its twentieth free-to-air broadcast partnership.  The new partnerships with Armenian Public TV and Radio Televizioni i Kosovës (RTK) along with existing agreements with national broadcasters across Europe are part of Discovery’s broad strategy to share the Games with more people, on more screens, than ever before. The new agreements cover free-to-air […]

May 17, 2017

All Belgian football on Proximus TV

Begian telco Proximus has reached an agreement with the Pro League for the broadcasting rights to the Jupiler Pro League (D1A) for the next three seasons. This new agreement means that Proximus TV customers will be to watch all of Belgian professional football (D1A and D1B) until 2020. Additionally, Proximus has announced that it has […]

May 17, 2017

Vision247 for Hadif Arabic service

Broadcast specialist Vision247 today announces that its XtremePlatform has been chosen and deployed to power CMT Technologies client Al Majd’s new OTT television service Hadif for global Arabic communities. Vision247 partnered with CMT Technologies, the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) leading solutions provider for IPTV/ OTT services, to deploy the new service. CMT and Al Majd […]

May 17, 2017

China: Universal music for Tencent platforms

Universal Music Group (UMG) Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME), a digital music distribution platform in China, have signed licensing agreement that will significantly expand the Chinese music market. Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, TME will distribute music from UMG’s roster of record labels and global recording stars on its streaming platforms QQ Music, […]

May 17, 2017

Commercial deployment of RDK on ADB platform

ADB, a provider of solutions and services for multimedia convergence, announces its partnership with Portuguese telecommunications and multimedia service provider, NOWO, with scope to implement the commercial launch of its TV service with ADB STB Hardware and ADB RDK Middleware. This strategic cooperation has aim to quickly deploy a variety of new RDK based services […]

May 17, 2017

Samsung approves You.i Engine as Tizen TV app development solution

You.i TV, a global player in video experience platforms, has announced that its You.i Engine video app platform has been officially recognized by Samsung as an approved app development solution for the Tizen TV operating system. The announcement was made in conjunction with the 2017 Tizen Developer Conference where Allan Isfan, director of business development […]

May 17, 2017

Champions League Final in VR on BT Sport

BT has announced plans to once again make this season’s UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League finals available for free to as many people as possible, on YouTube, the BT website, BT Sport channels and the app, underlining BT’s commitment to make televised sport more accessible to fans. The UEFA Champions League final can […]

May 16, 2017

EXFO launches solution to fix rising network latency challenges

EXFO, the network test, monitoring and analytics experts, has launched Universal Virtual Sync, a software-based solution enabling communications service providers (CSPs) to accurately and cost-effectively measure network latency (delay). This real-time visibility into latency behavior enables operators to deliver outstanding services, anytime and instantly for applications like video, VoIP and interactive services, and is critical […]

May 16, 2017

VR content creation market worth $41bn by 2023

The Global VR content creation market is estimated to reach $41.01 billion (€37.2bn) at the end 2023 from $147.5 million in 2015. The market is growing with CAGR 89.8 per cent during forecasted period. Rising demand for the gaming segment is the key determinant for the growth of VR content creation market across the globe. Advancement […]

May 16, 2017

Euskaltel acquires Telecable for €701m

Telecommunications, Media and Technology investor Zegona is selling its Spanish quad-play cable business Telecable to Euskaltel for a total value of up to €701 million, comprising an Enterprise Value of €686 million and up to €15 million deferred payment. The Enterprise Value consideration includes €186.5 million cash and 26.8 milion shares in Euskaltel (15 per cent […]

May 16, 2017By Colin Mann