IMPALA, the International MHEG Promotion Alliance, announces that ETSI – the European Telecommunications Standards Institute – has published the latest version of the public standard interactive TV middleware as a formal European standard. Version 2.1.1 of ETSI standard 202 184 – to give it its official title – contains a raft of very significant updates […]
Eutelsat Communications and Euro1080 have announced the signature of a new partnership designed to further enrich the content of Eutelsat’s 3D channel which is broadcast across Europe by the Eurobird 9A satellite. In this exclusive agreement, Euro1080 together with its TV production company Alfacam, a pioneer in HD production and broadcasting, will bring to the […]
NDS, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced that it has signed a new agreement with Hathway, the leading Multi System Operator (MSO) in India, which will enable Hathway to rapidly accelerate deployment of digital STBs and significantly boost its digital cable TV subscriber base over the next 12 months. NDS […]
Cisco has announced that French cable service provider Numericable is building one of the world’s first HD 3D VOD service based on the Cisco Content Delivery System platform. The company originally deployed the platform to support VOD, catch-up TV and user-generated content services. The award-winning Cisco Content Delivery System provides Numericable with the flexibility and […]
Despite taking place some three weeks earlier than its traditional late May date and suffering from some unseasonably miserable weather, the ANGA Cable Show managed to continue its success story in 2010 and closed with another record in exhibitor and visitor numbers. For the first time 15,000 trade visitors attended the Trade Fair and Congress […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome Italy could bring forward the final analogue switch-off to 2011, according to the Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Paolo Romani Speaking during the Fifth Annual Digital Terrestrial Conference in Milan, Romani said that he will talk to the presidents of the Regions (Tuscany, Umbria, Sicily and Calabria), for which the […]
Europe’s biggest commercial broadcaster RTL Group expects to see results improving this year compared with 2009 after it posted strong first-quarter earnings thanks to a recovery in TV advertising markets. Compared to a weak first quarter in 2009, most of the Western European TV advertising markets recorded robust growth during the first quarter 2010, with […]
From Colin Mann in Cologne Unity Media, Germany's second largest German cable TV operator is seeking new takeover targets to compete more effectively with dominant telco Deutsche Telecom. “We expect a consolidation in the market,” said, Gene Musselman, the new head of Unity Media, who is also a senior European manager for Unity Media parent […]
Vodafone, Wind and Swisscom's Fastweb are collaborating to build a rival Italian broadband network to Telecom Italia's The three Italian operators are preparing to launch a E2.5 billion broadband network plan. Under the five-year plan, the telcos are aiming to replace the traditional copper network by building a superfast broadband network in 15 cities. The […]
Walt Disney has said that owners of Apple's iPad played more than 1.5 million episodes of ABC television shows since the computer went on sale. More than 400,000 copies of the free ABC player have been downloaded since April 3rd, Disney said. Free shows are sponsored by advertisers, others are for sale from the Apple's […]