India DTH market leader Dish TV is launching a sub-brand, Zing, in order to attack regional markets within India and also to differentiate these new services from its core Dish TV brand. Dish TV CEO, in a statement, says that India’s drive towards 100 percent digitisation of its cable services “has fuelled the growth for […]
According to research from nScreenMedia, 96 per cent of US broadband users have one of the four main types of digital media: photos, music, movies and home videos. 52 per cent have at least some of all four types in digital media. “Digital cameras have now been in market for 20 years, so it is […]
CignalTV, a Philippines-based DTH broadcaster, saw its subscribers jump 161,000 last year, and helping push its total homes served rise from 441,000 at the end of 2012 to 602,000 at December 31st 2013. Cignal is backed by MediaScape, part of the MediaQuest conglomerate, and transmits from the SES-7 satellite. It launched in February 2009. Current […]
Inmarsat has reported it finished 2013 with an upturn in its core maritime, aviation and land services business, giving it momentum for faster growth in the next two years. The British satellite group, which provides communications to shipping, aircraft and remote locations, reported revenue growth of 5.4 per cent in its core Global MSS business […]
Eric Brandt, Broadcom’s CFO spoke at the recent Morgan Stanley Technology & Media conference, and the chip company’s recent progress and expectations were discussed by the analysts present. Brandt said: “Broadband is a good business. Last year was particularly strong on the set-top box side, [which] picked up, outgrew its peers probably overall in broadband […]
Skyline Communications, a specialist in end-to-end multi-vendor network management solutions for the satellite, broadcast, IPTV and HFC broadband industry, announces that Skylogic, a European provider of broadband satellite communication services, has expanded its DataMiner end-to-end multi-vendor network management platform to include the management of all antennas in its satellite earth station at Torino, Italy. The […]
comScore, a specialist in measuring the digital world, has confirmed the Spanish launch of MMX Multi-Platform, its next generation of digital audience measurement and media planning. Building on MMX, Mobile Metrix and Video Metrix from comScore’s Audience Analytics suite, MMX Multi-Platform offers unduplicated accounting of audience size and demographics that reflects today’s multi-platform digital media […]
Piksel, a global provider of video monetisation software and services, has been commissioned by VRT, Belgium’s national public television broadcaster, to deliver a an OTT solution. The project will allow VRT to satisfy the growing need for VoD catch-up and live content on multiple devices. Specifically, a customised syndication end-to-end solution, based on Piksel’s video […]
In a move to bring customers a wider variety of remote TV viewing options, DISH has announced that its recently upgraded DISH Anywhere app is now available for download on Kindle Fire HDX tablets in the US. The app, previously only available on Android and iOS devices, gives DISH customers the ability to watch all […]
Ericsson has signed an agreement with Telespazio, a Finmeccanica/Thales company, to expand the company’s current service offering to include MPEG-4 AVC HD and SD channels, while maintaining existing MPEG-2 SD channels at premium quality within the existing content distribution infrastructure. Telespazio will benefit from cost savings as a result of continuing to use its existing […]