Russia Satellite Communications (RSCC) is ordering two giant satellites from French manufacturer Astrium. The orders are part of a nine-satellite expansion plan. One order covers a craft lost last year in a launch failure (Express AM4, and the new craft is dubbed Express AM4R), with its costs funded by the insurance payout because of the […]
Vision247 has confirmed the availability of its LG Smart TV app for broadcasters. This new app, available from the App Store on LG Smart TVs, enables broadcasters to extend the reach of online streamed content to audience via the latest LG internet connected TV sets. LG Smart TVs enable viewers to access a range of […]
Media Broadcast has launched a DVB-S2 transmission platform on Astra 23.5° East (Astra 3B). The platform enables the efficient use of available transponder capacities for the transmission of HDTV programmes. Media Broadcast is targeting markets in Central and Eastern Europe, with a focus on the Czech Republic and Slovakia, via the satellite’s Europe Wide Beam. […]
BlackArrow, a global provider of advanced advertising solutions for New Television platforms, has announced that Rogers Communications is deploying the BlackArrow Advanced Advertising System to create a next-generation advertising marketplace for video-on-demand TV services in Canada. BlackArrow’s Advanced Advertising System provides cable system operators and programmers with the real-time, multiplatform advertising management and decision solutions […]
Samsung Canada is enhancing the way Videotron customers watch TV with the launch of two new set top boxes – the Samsung HD box and the HD PVR. Both products will be available exclusively through Videotron, in support of their next generation illico digital TV service. The advanced features of Samsung set-top boxes provide illico […]
Sunrise Telecom, a provider of test, monitoring and workflow management solutions for cable, telecom, wireless operators, and equipment manufacturers, has expanded its portfolio of network test and measurement solutions with the launch of the packetWORX IPTV Suite. The Sunrise Telecom packetWORX Suite, which includes the server-based packetWORX IPTV Monitoring system and packetWORX IPTV Analyzer application […]
The BBC’s Panorama documentary show has alleged NDS deliberately leaked On Digital smart card codes and that this led to endemic hacking of the service which, in turn led to its successor, ITV Digital, closing in 2002. The allegations are not new, but Panorama had tracked down Lee Gidding, the man behind The House of […]
NDS has denied that Davide Rossi the fomer head of the AEPOC anti-piracy organisation and, it is now revealed, a consultant to the security department of NDS, ever acted illegally on their behalf. Rossi is currently a defendant in a wide-ranging pay-TV piracy trial in Sicily where several defendants are charged as part of a […]
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) UK has confirmed that three of the studio’s summer releases – Jack & Jill, The Vow and 21 Jump Street – will arrive in stores during June and July 2012 with UltraViolet digital versions of the movies included with their respective Blu-ray Discs and DVDs. Purchasers of the titles will […]
The UK High Court has ordered O2 to hand over the personal details of more than 9,000 O2 broadband subscribers to Golden Eye International and the adult programme producer Ben Dover Productions. Ben Dover is a pseudonym of Lindsay Honey, a British performer, director and producer of pornography, who set up Golden Eye International in […]