From David Del Valle in Madrid Spanish media group Vocento, owner of national DTT channel Net TV, is preparing to launch a private Regional TV network through DTT across the country in direct competition with FORTA, the Federation of public Regional TV stations. Vocento has a number of Local and Regional DTT licences, along with […]
Fox Mobile Group has unveiled its long-delayed mobile video streaming service. Fox Mobile announced that the service will be called Bitbop and that it will be an on-demand video subscription service for $9.99 a month. Subscribers will be able to watch full-length content on a smartphone over WiFi and 3G. Fox Mobile Group's CMO Chris […]
Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior predicts a brave new world of Internet TV and video-conferencing cell-phones. Speaking at CTIA she said “the mobile device and the Internet are fast converging.” She said that just three years ago, data equivalent to 1.4 billion DVDs were sent across global networks. By 2013, she added, this will equal a […]
Michel de Rosen, Chief Executive Officer of Eutelsat has announced the appointment of Yohann Leroy as Director of Strategy. Leroy joined Eutelsat from the office of the French Prime Minister, where he was technical advisor for Industry and Information Technology from 2007 to 2010. This followed four years as head of the industrial development department […]
From Colin Mann at IPTV World Forum in London Nokia Siemens Networks has launched a new software platform designed to allow people the freedom to watch TV on multiple devices. The platform lets operators provide live, recorded or video-on-demand TV to mobile phone, Internet-connected computer, satellite or digital terrestrial television screens. In addition, it offers […]
IP Vision and Netgem has showcased one of the UK's first HD Freeview+ Hybrid DTT STBs at IPTV World Forum. IP Vision develops, operates and manages FetchTV, is a leading hybrid DTT/IP OTT connected TV service. Netgem is a provider of IPTV technology and services to telecom operators worldwide. The new SmartBox, which includes a […]
Solaris Mobile, the Dublin based pioneer of European next generation mobile communication networks, has presented its plans for commercial content distribution within the French market. The new services benefit from the advantages of a hybrid network leveraging terrestrial mobile infrastructure capabilities, and the ubiquitous coverage of a satellite reaching 100 per cent of the territory. […]
Viaccess, a France Telecom company and Orca Interactive its subsidiary company, an expert in IPTV middleware and applications have been selected to provide Conditional Access and DRM solutions including Orca's IP native TV-middleware “RiGHTV” to Alpha Networks who have recently launched Billi, an innovative new Belgian triple play operator. Alpha Networks, a Belgian systems integrator […]
Inlet Technologies, an expert in solutions for digital media preparation, has partnered with international multimedia specialist Twofour Digital, to provide the first fully-automated end-to-end HD Smooth Streaming encoding and digital rights management (DRM) deployment for VOD content in the Pan-European marketplace. Inlet's automated VOD workflow management system Armada, along with Twofour Digital's delivery and publishing […]
SyncTV has unveiled its latest business enabling product, SyncTV Web Services (SWS) aimed at online video service providers such as network operators and broadcasters seeking to expand their services across an Internet connected device platform. SWS allows video service providers to easily deploy fully-branded video services to a broad set of connected televisions, Blu-ray players, […]