SES Astra has made a partnership with the Arabic satellite operator Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat). They will create a new company operating under the YahLive brand that will offer Direct-to-Home (DTH) television capacity and services to more than two dozen countries in the Middle East, North Africa and South West Asia. YahLive will […]
Smartclip, the German interactive video network backed by Endemol founder Joop van den Ende, has launched in the UK as it aims to take a chunk of the online video ad market. The network is designed to allow TV and online planners to buy pre-roll campaigns around professional content through more simple processes. It's currently […]
From Colin Mann in Las Vegas Tandberg Television is pursuing what it describes as "a new chapter in video compression" with the launch of the EN8100 MPEG-2 SD encoder, designed to deliver a host of performance and operational benefits for DTH satellite, cable and terrestrial operators, as well as for content aggregators and distributors. The […]
On Demand Group has signed a new four-year contract to provide content management services for Virgin Media's on demand service. The renewal covers rights management, editorial service management, promo production, and content operations including encoding, metadata generation, and content preparation, which ODG has been providing since the service went live in February 2007.
Mariner, provider of IPTV solutions and technologies, and Orca Interactive, specialist in providing IPTV middleware and applications and a Viaccess subsidiary, have revealed a global alliance. The alliance enables Orca customers to receive additional value added services, while driving market penetration of xVu, Mariner’s flagship software assurance solution, in conjunction with the sale of its […]
Croatian telco Iskon, a subsidiary of Croatian incumbent telco T-Hrvatski Telekom (T-HT), has launched an IPTV service branded ‘Iskon.TV’. The service is currently available in nine cities across the country and boasts a line-up of over 40 channels, including BBC World, Eurosport, MTV, VH1, Cartoon Network, CNN, The History Channel and The Discovery Channel. ….
From Colin Mann in Las Vegas At NAB Adobe has announced a deal to put its Flash software into many of the chips that go inside TVs and set-top boxes. This will enable developers and content providers to create applications to deliver web-based content to TV screens. Flash will be included on chips made by […]
Wikipedia has become the latest publisher to block Phorm from tracking users across its portfolio of sites. A company statement said: "The Wikimedia Foundation requests that our websites, including Wikipedia.org and all related domains, be excluded from scanning by the Phorm / BT Webwise system, as we consider the scanning and profiling of our visitors' […]
One of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay website has said that the one-year prison sentences handed down by a Swedish judge are “weird and bizarre” and insisted that the defendants “can’t pay and wouldn’t pay” the $3.6million fine. In a press conference, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi held up a handwritten IOU to the camera and […]
TiVo plans to begin this summer to provide anonymous, second-by-second ratings data for programmes and commercials airing in local U.S. markets, which the company says will provide greater granularity than current ratings samples from Nielsen and other measurement firms. The new “StopWatch Local Markets” service will only launch in a handful of markets–at least three, […]