Thomson Video Networks has announced the launch of the RD6000, a multi-format integrated receiver decoder (IRD) developed for a wide range of MPEG contribution applications. The RD6000 supports high-quality contribution video feeds for all satellite and telecom contribution networks, offering full MPEG-2, MPEG-4, 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 8-bit, and 10-bit decoding in a single 1RU chassis. The […]
Charlie Ergen’s pay-TV operation Dish Network has launched a nationwide “multi-million dollar” US television, radio and print campaign designed to build awareness for its ‘Hopper’ ad-skipping device with a built in Sling-player. Dish say that the new device, which received the ‘Best of Show’ award at January’s Consumer Electronics Show, is capable of recording up […]
The past weekend’s top-level European summit managed to trim the European Union’s future budgets for the period 2014-2020. One segment to suffer is the amount allocated towards encouraging broadband deployments around Europe. This had previously been budgeted at €9.2 billion (allocated to the “digital economy”) as part of the Connecting Europe Facility. This has now […]
Fixed bandwidth market is growing fast with the addition of 416,000 lines, up 3.7 per cent, to a total of 11.56 million in 2012, according to the latest report from the Telecomunications Market Commission (CMT). Telefonica remains the market leader with a market share of 48.33 per cent, followed by its telco competitors, 32.96 per […]
The new 24-hour news and entertainment channel for the Latino market in the US is to be called Fusion. Its backers are Univision and ABC News, a unit of the Walt Disney Company, and it has carriage deals covering at least 20 million homes. Fusion will have its premiere late this summer as the first […]
Belgian cable company Telenet will distribute €950 million to its shareholders this year after a strong year in which customers flocked to its new mobile offering. Telenet, in which US group Liberty Global has a 58.3 per cent stake, said it would pay shareholders 7.90 per share and buy back shares worth an additional €50 […]
Foreign suppliers of set-top boxes have captured some 95 per cent of India’s demand for digital TV converter equipment, according to statistics from India’s Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DEITY). DEITY says that in the six months to November 2012 about 10 million cable boxes were imported, and a further 4 million for DTH […]
Amazon’s Lovefilm has extended its content deal with BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC. There was already a programming agreement with Worldwide, but the new agreement gives it rights to a wider range of content from the distributor. Jim Buckle, managing director at Lovefilm, said: “The evolution of our TV offering has been […]
CBS and Amazon.com have signed a licensing agreement for the new CBS television series Under the Dome, establishing an in-season, online subscription-video-on-demand (SVoD) window for the show on Amazon’s Prime Instant Video service. Prime Instant Video will be the exclusive online subscription home for Under the Dome. The serialised drama from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television […]
London based broadcast specialist Vision247 has acquired Fora, a Slovenian IPTV software solutions company in a deal valued at more than €2 million. The acquisition expands Vision247’s leading role as a provider of over the top (OTT) internet delivered television services to incorporate triple and quad play models for large telecom operators globally. Vision247 says […]