Sony unveiled 15 new flat TVs and a new remote control for the domestic market on as a part of a world-wide effort to win back market share during the year-end shopping season. The world’s second-largest maker of liquid LCD TVs, is struggling to catch up to South Korea’s Samsung. Sony hopes its new 40-inch […]
Orca Interactive, provider of IPTV middleware and applications, is set to market a combined IPTV and WebTV solution. Orca is delivering its new WebTV technology to Blockbuster Israel, enabling the leading content provider to deliver advanced digital content services to its subscribers. Blockbuster Israel will launch a new Internet service for progressive download of up-to-date […]
iO global, provider of integrated mobile content solutions, has revealed that Isle of Man's Manx Telecom has launched a converged content delivery service, 'Mobile Downloads', which enables its 75,000 subscribers to purchase, download and consume music from a mobile device and/or PC using the iO Mobile Experience Platform. Manx Telecom customers will be able to […]
Cinea, a subsidiary of Dolby, has confirmed that NDS has licensed the company’s forensic watermarking technology for use with its extensive product line of conditional access and digital rights management solutions for video-on-demand and live broadcast.
RRSat Global Communications Network announced that it has signed an agreement with Loral Skynet to offer distribution of video content to the Asian Market via a powerful digital platform using Loral Skynet’s Telstar 10 satellite. Through the multiplexed content delivery platform, RRSat customers will gain access to over 80 million cable households across 33 countries […]
Skyline Communications has been awarded a contract by GlobeCast for the supply of a global DataMiner network management system for the monitoring of the quality and availability of the GlobeCast services. The solution will include installations of DataMiner technology across the globe (including sites such as London, Paris, Singapore and Los Angeles), and will provide […]
Exterity, a specialist in network IPTV, has confirmed the availability of its new TriplePlay receiver. Known as the 'idaptor TriplePlay' receiver, the new compact device will deliver and receive Internet, TV and telephony to any end point across a local area network. The idaptor can be connected to any end point and instantly turns it […]
NBC Universal has agreed to acquire Sparrowhawk and its global portfolio of pay TV channels, including the international Hallmark Channels, from Providence Equity Partners, 3i and management shareholders. The announcement was made by Jeff Zucker, President and CEO, NBC Universal and David Elstein, Chairman, Sparrowhawk Media. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but a […]
JTV shows from around the world will be streamed in the UK through Tiscali under a deal with on-demand broadcaster JumpTV. The partnership will see JumpTV install its video players on the Tiscali UK portal in the entertainment section. UK users of Tiscali broadband will then be able to access TV from 70 countries. “At […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid The Spanish football TV war between Sogecable and Mediapro, main shareholder in commercial channel La Sexta, prevented viewers outside of Spain from watching the Madrid derby game live on Saturday evening. The opening weekend of the season was in chaos as several games were embroiled in the dispute. As […]