The BBC has launched its new sport app for connected TVs, enabling audiences to access the BBC’s interactive coverage of major sporting events via the BBC Red Button. This is the BBC’s next generation TV experience, seamlessly integrating linear TV with online and on-demand content at the simple click of a button. Initially focusing on […]
Broadpeak, a Technicolor (Euronext Paris: TCH) spin-off providing content delivery networks (CDN) and video-on-demand (VOD) servers for cable, IPTV, and over-the-top (OTT) operators worldwide, announced that it completed the acquisition of its core software technology from Technicolor in exchange for a minority stake in the company. “Today marks the final step in Broadpeak’s spin-off process […]
Elemental Technologies, the leading supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, today announced that leading international broadcasters with multiscreen delivery rights for the 2012 Olympic Games in London will use Elemental products to power their IP video delivery initiatives. The announcement culminates a series of high profile customer wins for Elemental over the last […]
Vimond Media Solutions announced that it has successfully completed the training program with Google and has become a certified Widevine™ implementation partner (CWIP). As a CWIP, Vimond is able to integrate Google’s Widevine DRM technology into its range of video OTT services, enabling its customers to protect and distribute content across multiple platforms and Internet-connected […]
Continuing to lead the way with Hybrid TV, Entone, Inc. is teaming with BTC Broadband to explore a new Broadband TV (BBTV) service model in Bixby, Oklahoma. With FusionTV™, BTC Broadband can offer a new BBTV service that combines live Over the Air (OTA) television programs and full digital video recorder (DVR) capabilities, with additional […]
Online TV platform Vimond Media Solutions is teaming up with cloud platform specialist Akamai in a deal that will allow Vimond to bundle Akamai’s media distribution services with its own online video platform. The partnership means Vimond can offer broadcasters and service providers a single source for designing, deploying, and supporting over-the-top (OTT) services. “Because […]
Advanced playout and content management solutions provider Chello DMC has announced ‘TV without Boundaries’, a year-long, industry-wide initiative to explore effective international TV channel strategies. The initiative centres on panel and networking events, news and comment throughout the year. The first event will be held later in April in Madrid, with Budapest scheduled to host […]
Vimond Media Solutions announced today that Finland’s largest commercial broadcaster MTV3 will deploy VimondSPORTS, a web player developed by Vimond to create an online, interactive ice hockey experience for viewers. The ice hockey portal — one of the first for Finland’s advanced WebTV market — will give MTV3 a new revenue stream and a new […]
Prominent UK businessman Allan Leighton is to take over as Chairman of STB maker Pace, which recently gained number one ranking among set-top box manufacturers, but which has also attracted adverse analyst comments following profits warnings. Leighton formerly headed supermarket chain Asda, but came to prominence during his tenure as chairman of Royal Mail. He […]
A video-on-demand service is set to make its debut in South Africa. VOD:TV, formed by the SouthTel Group, is promising to offer the latest movies and TV series before Multichoice-owned DStv, The service won’t offer live TV itself, but will allow subscribers to download and store content to the PVR for later viewing. Roughly half […]