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, […]
Edgeware, specialist in distributed video delivery, has announced that Danish operator, Smile Content, has deployed a next-generation distributed video delivery system from Edgeware to power its newly launched Catch-Up and Restart-TV services.
Sky Player, Sky's online TV service, is to launch on a connected TV and a set-top box following agreements with Cello, a manufacturer of LCD TVs, and 3View maker of a hybrid DTT/IPTV set-top box. Sky Player will be available as a pay TV option on both platforms and follows an earlier deal with Fetch […]
From Colin Mann at the IPTV World Forum in London With the addition of another 58 million lines of broadband in 2009, there are now more than 466.95 million broadband customers in the world according to statistics released by industry group the Broadband Forum. The report, prepared for the Forum by industry analysts Point Topic, […]
Virgin Media plans to offer 3D content to customers through its on-demand platform, rather than a linear 3D channel. Virgin is currently demonstrating 3D TV at the Ideal Home Show in London. For the demo expensive ‘active’ glasses have been used which allow customers to purchase cheaper 3D-ready TVs. However, the operator claimed that its […]
The day after the UK Office of Fair Trading announced a consultation process that may lead to a referral of the project to the Competition Commission – a move that would delay the Canvas launch by up to a year even if it got a clean bill of health – members of the consortium have […]
From Colin Mann at IPTV World Forum in London IPTV subscriptions are poised to grow from over 30 million in 2010 to 68 million by the end of 2014, according to analyst firm Strategy Analytics, with Asia Pacific and Western Europe leading in deployments. Although IPTV's future seems promising, Strategy Analytics experts suggest that providers […]