The New Zealand Government has announced that the country will complete the switchover to digital television by November 2013. The West Coast and Hawke’s Bay will be the first areas to be switched over. Seventy per cent of households already receive a digital television signal through Freeview, Sky or Testra Clear. A $16 million education […]
Toshiba has unveiled new HD TVs featuring Yahoo software that allows viewers to watch content streamed from the Internet. “Yahoo is reaching consumers wherever they view content… partnering with Toshiba enables us to deliver a rich variety of Internet content to the living rooms of millions more people,” said Connected TV vice president Ron Jacoby. […]
TiVo, the specialist in advanced television services has joined MoCA, the worldwide standard for home entertainment networking, as an Associate level member. TiVo pioneered the DVR and engages multiple channels for distribution of its products including retail and service provider. MoCA has seen deployment of its technology in multiroom DVR among all three pay TV […]
GlobeCast and Shanghai Media Group have reached an agreement to jointly provide a host of production and transmission services to serve the needs of international broadcasters and to establish a video fibre link into and out of China. The goal of the agreement is to combine the best of SMG’s domestic Chinese capabilities with GlobeCast’s […]
KPN is broadening and extending its iTV services contract with Nokia Siemens Networks to bring new TV viewing experiences to its customers. The agreement is at the heart of the operator’s plans to grow its current iTV subscriber base. Nokia Siemens Networks is providing KPN with a complete next-generation iTV solution that will enable it […]
Strong it is to license the Thomson brand for its range of high end set-top boxes with embedded conditional access systems for Pay TV operators, for retail distribution networks covering all of Europe, and selected countries in the Middle East and Africa. Khaled Debs, CEO of Strong said: “Thomson brand has always been an A […]
Technicolor has won a further contract from Astro, Malaysia’s leading integrated cross-media group. Already an established supplier of MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 STBs for standard definition broadcasting, Technicolor is now to supply HD MPEG-4 STBs with local recording capability to support Astro’s move to offer more technology-adapting services and products to its near 3 million customer […]
Following its incorporation as YouView TV Ltd at the end of last week, Project Canvas, the proposed joint venture between the BBC, ITV, BT, Channel 4, Channel 5, Talk Talk and Arqiva to build a standards based, open Internet-connected TV environment, is being rebranded as YouView, and has launched a new website – www.youview.com – […]
Fox International Channels (FIC), News Corporation’s multimedia arm, focused on the production and international distribution of Pay TV channels, contents and digital services for Internet and mobile has announced the appointment of Mirjam Laux as Vice President and Managing Director of Fox Channels Germany. Mirjam Laux joins Fox Channels from ProSiebenSat.1 Group, where she began […]
Boxee will begin shipping its Internet TV STBs across Europe in November, it says. The box, manufactured by D-Link says the cost will be £199 (E240). The Boxee Box will also be available in Canada and Australia. In the US the device will be available exclusively from Amazon for pre-launch orders. The Boxee Box will […]