Advanced Television

Allente B2B hospitality TV service powered by 3SS

3 Screen Solutions (3SS), a provider of software solutions for STBs and multiscreen entertainment, has announced that Nordic region pay-TV provider, Allente, has chosen 3SS and its 3READY Product Framework to power its new B2B entertainment offering for the hospitality industry. Allente assigned 3SS to develop a dedicated new app, based on Android TV OS, […]

July 15, 2021

Voot orders Poker Mantra docu-series

Indian AVoD platform, Voot, has partnered with Poker Sports League to launch an exclusive poker docu-series in India – Poker Mantra presented by Pocket52. Sidharth Mishra, Co-Founder and CMO of Minds Sports League, commented: “The five-part docu-reality series, Poker Mantra directed by Sreetama Ray will take the viewers through the story of Poker in India, […]

July 15, 2021

Amazon Prime Video unveils The Grand Tour Presents: Lochdown

Amazon Prime Video has unveiled the first look at The Grand Tour Presents: Lochdown. Confined to the UK by Covid, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May embark on a Lockdown Special to celebrate the great 70s American cars they saw in TV shows as kids, and to find out just why it was, given […]

July 15, 2021

Avanti, Clear Blue partnership

Avanti Communications, a provider of high throughput satellite capacity across EMEA, has announced a partnership with Clear Blue Technologies International, the Smart Off-Grid company, to enable Mobile Network Operators and Telco Tower Companies to deliver rural network coverage to areas across sub-Saharan Africa. Within the next three to five years, the partnership is expected to […]

July 15, 2021

NS1 adds new capabilities to Pulsar Active Traffic Steering solution

NS1, a specialist in application traffic intelligence and automation, has unveiled Traffic Analysis Dashboards for its Pulsar Active Traffic Steering solution. With real-time metrics about availability, latency, and traffic distribution, these interactive dashboards make it simple and intuitive to monitor and optimize application delivery across multi-cloud, multi-CDN, and edge environments, enabling performance optimization at a […]

July 15, 2021

Blackbird to drive cloud native video workflows for Athletes Unlimited

Blackbird, the developer and seller of the market-leading cloud native video editing platform, Blackbird, announced today that Athletes Unlimited has chosen Blackbird to drive fast, flexible and efficient cloud native video workflows. Founded by Jon Patricof and Jonathan Soros, Athletes Unlimited is a fast-growing network of next generation US sports leagues covering softball, volleyball and lacrosse. Making […]

July 15, 2021

Jukin Media’s channels now on ZEASN’s WhaleLive

Jukin Media, a specialist in user-generated entertainment, has announced its streaming TV channels People Are Awesome, WeatherSpy, FailArmy, and The Pet Collective are now available on WhaleLive, the free ad-supported live streaming service created by ZEASN. Jukin Media, the leader in user-generated entertainment, today announced its streaming TV channels People Are Awesome, WeatherSpy, FailArmy, and […]

July 15, 2021

Haivision and SRT Alliance host SRT Plugfest

Haivision, a provider of mission-critical, real-time video streaming and networking solutions, and the SRT Alliance, a collaborative community of over 500 product, service, and solution providers supporting the SRT Open Source project, today announced the highlights of the SRT InterOp Summer 2021 Plugfest, including a new record in the number of successfully completed device-to-device tests. […]

July 15, 2021

Open Broadcast Systems, MSTV Live Broadcasting, Nemeton TV deliver football via 4G

Open Broadcast Systems has worked with MSTV Live Broadcasting and Nemeton TV to deliver pre-season football matches from major Russian football teams via 4G to satellite. The first match was successfully delivered on June 28th. MSTV is working to deliver live coverage of all pre-season matches for  FC Dynamo Moscow, FC Spartak Moscow, and FC Zenit. The matches, taking place in Austria, […]

July 15, 2021

Report: Italy sees drop in piracy

After a sharp increase of audiovisual piracy during lockdown, Italy has now seen a significant drop in such acts that are in line with pre-Covid data. According to a study by Ipsos for the Federation for the Protection of Audiovisual and Media Content (FAPAV), around 243 million acts of piracy were recorded during the first […]

July 14, 2021From Branislav Pekic in Rome