According to China.com, T-MMB was selected as the national standard for mobile television/multimedia at an assessment conference, and will be promulgated as the formal national standard for mobile television and multimedia content. Lou Peide, Secretary General of the China Mobile Communications Association, a professor at Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications, and also promoter of […]
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, has acquired Australia's subscription-television channel, UK.TV, taking 100 per cent ownership of the channel from July 1st 2008. As one of three stakeholders in UK.TV (formerly with a 20 per cent share), BBC Worldwide's Channels business has agreed terms with joint partners FOXTEL and FremantleMedia to become […]
blinkx has formed a partnership with ON Networks, a digital media company delivering original, on-demand TV shows. ON Networks' high-definition video content is now accessible through blinkx. Under the terms of the agreement, blinkx will leverage its AdHoc platform to place contextually relevant advertising against the footage, and will share resulting advertising revenue with ON […]
Turner Broadcasting and MySpace have confirmed a deal which sees lads channel Nuts TV and cult comedy animation brand Adult Swim have dedicated content channels on MySpaceTV. Launched this week, both channels will include an extensive library of selected clips and see new content introduced each week
Harmonic has worked with CommScope to assure compatibility of products to provide cable operators with an integrated high-speed fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) solution. Harmonic’s MAXLink forward path transmitters and return path receivers combined with CommScope’s BrightPath system enable cable operators to implement a cost-effective RF over glass (RFOG) architecture for greenfield type deployments. Integrated with the existing […]
Nokia will pay $410 million (E263m) for the 52 per cent of shares in Symbian it doesn't already own. Symbian’s software is used in two-thirds of smartphones and six percent of all mobile phones, but new platforms such as Google’s Android and Apple’s iPhone could challenge its dominance. The Symbian software will now be made […]
O2 TV, the Czech IPTV service, will exceed 100,000 subscribers imminently according to owner Telefónica O2, and is offering a top of the range LG LCD television as a prize to the 100,000th customer. The company added around 14,000 subscribers in the first quarter of the year to reach 87,173 by the end of last […]
A1GP World Cup of Motorsport has become one of the first international racing series to offer its World Feed TV Broadcast in High Definition as the 2008/09 season approaches. A1GP is carried by more than 45 broadcast licensees worldwide, reaching nearly 180 countries and territories around the globe. They will all now be given the […]
Digital TV Labs, the European Digital TV testing specialists, have shipped the first MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) test suite covering digital terrestrial (DVB-T) broadcasts including the receiver requirements of the imminent French HD TNT service. The Evora MPEG-4 test suite consists of custom in-house test streams supporting Main and High profiles as well as Level 3 […]
News Corp is counting on its growing pay-TV businesses to offset any downturn in the advertising economy that would affect its television and print divisions, according to chairman Rupert Murdoch. Speaking after a global advertising conference, Murdoch flagged plans for further activity in the European pay-TV platform market after the company bought a 25 per […]