upc cablecom is now offering television via the Internet and on mobile devices to all its Swiss customers with an existing digital TV subscription. There are now two options for accessing these services: Horizon TV Online, via the Internet, and the Horizon TV app for iPhone and iPad. Access is free of charge for existing […]
Back on December 8th, a Proton rocket carrying a communications satellite for Gazprom failed to deliver the satellite to its correct orbit. The craft was built by Thales Alenia Space. As a result all Proton flights were suspended while an investigation was carried out. An expert review has now concluded that a bearing failed which […]
Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, has established a development centre focused on R&D and product engineering efforts based in Paris, France. The expanded software and security engineering team will aid in the advancement of the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) suite of […]
At Mobile World Congress, Ericsson will launch a new unified content delivery network (CDN) solution to address the global consumer shift to broadband mobility. The new Ericsson Media Delivery Network solution is designed to unite the delivery of managed and unmanaged content over fixed and mobile networks by leveraging Ericsson’s packet core and radio capabilities […]
Beamr, the media compression and delivery experts behind the JPEGmini photo compression technology, has unveiled Beamr Video, enabling the delivery of high quality video at low bitrates using standard H.264 video streaming. Capable of supporting any resolution up to 4K UltraHD, Beamr Video’s patent-pending optimisation technology automatically reduces the bitrate of H.264 video streams by […]
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 […]