Advanced Television

NASA verifies VSF’s video over IP spec

At an event held on October 20th at Marshal Space Flight Center, NASA personnel conducted successful testing to verify interoperability between five vendor implementations of the Video Services Forum’s (VSF’s) Technical Recommendation 01 (TR-01). TR-01 uses existing standards to define interoperable profiles for real time streaming of a broadcast profile JPEG 2000 codestream wrapped in […]

November 3, 2015

Technicolor builds 20m STBs for DirecTV PanAmericana

Technicolor has manufactured the 20th million set-top-box for DirecTV PanAmericana. Over the past 22 years Technicolor has worked in partnership with DirecTV to provide a wide range of basic and advanced set-top-boxes for use in the US and throughout Latin America. In 1993 Technicolor (formerly Thomson) was selected by DirecTV to design and manufacture the […]

November 3, 2015

Arabsat takes major ABS-3A capacity

Arabsat has signed a major multi-transponder, multi-year agreement on ABS-3A, which recently launched to the 3 degrees West orbital slot. ABS-3A will be used by Arabsat to boost its Ku-band coverage for “data, enterprise, banking and government” clients. “We are very pleased to be collaborating again with Arabsat as a reliable valued partner in supporting […]

November 3, 2015By Chris Forrester

THEMA launches African channels in Canada

THEMA has confirmed the launch of 7 African TV channels, for the first time in Canada, available immeditely. Le Bouquet Africain, available on FIBE TV, features 7 different networks from Africa:  2STV (channel 2464), RTS (channel 2465), RTG (channel 2466), RTI1  (channel 2467), Canal 2 International (channel 2468), CRTV (channel 2469) and RTNC (channel 2470). All FIBE […]

November 3, 2015

SpotX, clypd ad-sales platform

With the TV industry moving towards greater synergies between the sale of traditional and digital video inventory, SpotX and clypd announce the development of a single solution for media owners to manage the sale of all forms of television assets and video inventory. The pairing of SpotX’s digital video platform and clypd’s linear TV platform […]

November 3, 2015

Monterosa hires director of sports

Monterosa, the multiscreen activation specialist, has announced the recruitment of Ben Barker to the newly created position of director of sports ahead of major year of sport in 2016. Barker’s responsibilities will include creating interactive mobile content and leading business development in the commercial sports sector by engaging new clients across brands, events, sports federations, […]

November 3, 2015

Prime Entertainment for Bein

Bein has signed a major framework agreement with Producer/Distributor Prime Entertainment Group for the launch of its Entertainment offer of 24 new channels. The agreement starts in November 1st and will last at least until end 2017. The programmes will be available in several languages including English, French and Arab. “The Middle East market was a […]

November 3, 2015

XCRYPT completes CAS installation at TNTSAT Africa

Xcrypt and TNTSAT Africa, in the person of its CEO, Ismaila Sidibe, inked their agreement in principle during IBC 2014. Less than one year later, after having had to build an entire DTH uplink from scratch, after training 3,000 installers to the art of not only setting-up dishes but also reselling their TV package, TNTSAT […]

November 3, 2015

ABS and Arabsat strengthen partnership on ABS-3A

ABS and Arab Satellite Communication Organisation (Arabsat) have signed an expansion capacity agreement on ABS-3A for a multi-transponder, multiyear deal for Ku-band payload.  The additional capacity will be used for different customer networks within the  Middle East and North Africa regions in particular Saudi Arabia.Under the agreement, Arabsat will use the new bandwidth on ABS-3A […]

November 3, 2015

Eurofins Digital Testing for MOST Automotive Infotainment Systems

Eurofins Digital Testing (formerly Digital TV Labs and Testronic Labs Belgium) is now the official lab for certifying pay-TV enabled automotive infotainment systems, which use the MOST network to transport CI+ protected content, using Digital Transmission Content Protection (DTCP). The MOST Cooperation recently released its latest MOST Stream Transmission Specification, which includes support for the […]

November 3, 2015