Advanced Television

Friend MTS will showcase latest multi-layer watermarking for protection against streaming piracy at NAB 2019

Friend MTS, the Emmy Award winning content and revenue protection specialist, will be showcasing its latest multi-layer watermarking for strengthened national and international protection against streaming piracy at NAB 2019 (booth SU8921). Based on its Distribution iD and ASiD managed services, the multi-layer watermarking and content monitoring strengthens security for content owners in domestic markets. […]

January 23, 2019

Dolby Technology powers Academy Award nominated films

Dolby Laboratories congratulates this year’s Academy Award nominees who have tapped into the audio-visual power of Dolby technologies to draw audiences into their stories. Whether through Dolby Vision imaging – providing incredible brightness, contrast, and colour, or Dolby Atmos, immersive audio that flows all around you – Dolby technologies bring every theatrical moment to life. […]

January 23, 2019

Belarus TV invests in Grass Valley for HD OB content delivery of the 2019 European Games

Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, has joined forces with the National State Television and Radio Company of the Republic of Belarus (Belarus TV) to deliver optimized, end-to-end workflows and infrastructure for the broadcaster’s four new outside broadcast (OB) vans. Designed and built by German OB specialists Broadcast Solutions GmbH, these new vans will produce and deliver coverage of the 2019 […]

January 23, 2019

Integrasys 2019 VIP Partner Summit

Integrasys has announce its 2019 Annual Partners meeting in Madrid on February 28th. Why attend? Learn more about Integrasys´ technology and solutions, share experiences and success stories, discover how our partners and their customers are benefiting from our innovations and let us know your requirements to keep innovating ang growing together. Join us for a […]

January 23, 2019

Analysts: ‘D2C set to disrupt pay-TV market’

The emergence of D2C services will be the big event of 2019 and it will impact on the pay-TV market, according to Futuresource Consulting. “Perhaps one of the most significant movements [will be] the emergence of direct to consumer (D2C) services… This will come to

January 22, 2019

TiVo: Streaming sticks gain ground over STBs

TiVo has released a retooled version of its Video Trends Report, which is now a biannual presentation of findings from consumer opinion surveys of 4,000+ viewers in the US and Canada. Report highlights include: Over 30% aren’t using major monthly OTT services As service clustering increases, it’s

January 22, 2019

Netflix hits 1.5m subs in Italy

Netflix had 1.4 million paying subscribers in Italy last year and that number is expected to reach 2 million by the end of 2019. The estimates come from Tony Gunnarsson, a media analyst at the consulting firm Ovum, reports daily Italia Oggi. The video streaming platform, which arrived in Italy in November 2015, only provides […]

January 22, 2019From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Strategist: Netflix UK price rise expected

Simon-Kucher, a pricing strategy firm, fully expects to see Netflix’s US price hike extend to the UK – without suffering a deluge of subscriber cancellations. The firm said it “expects to see price increases rolled out in the UK and elsewhere, with Netflix taking a localised approach based on their learnings in the US”. Netflix’s […]

January 22, 2019

Freeview launches new mobile app

Freeview has launched its mobile app for iOS devices. Users can stream live shows from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 and on demand content from BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All 4, My5, and UKTV Play whenever and wherever. The Freeview app is available to download from The App Store now. As with all Freeview […]

January 22, 2019

Which? highlights broadband black spots

Parts of central London, Stroud, Tunbridge Wells and Canterbury were among the more surprising areas suffering from the worst broadband in the UK, according to Which? analysis of customer speed tests. The consumer champion found that while rural Scotland and Wales still have Britain’s slowest average connection speeds, many local authority areas including in the […]

January 22, 2019