ESPN nets Twenty20 rights US sports broadcaster ESPN has paid almost $1 billion for the global rights to the Twenty20 Champions League, the world’s richest cricket ESPN paid $900 million for the commercial rights and a further $75 million for marketing the tournament. A bid for the rights from Abu Dhabi Sports Club was “disqualified […]
Thomson is selling the Thomson Grass Valley digital film transfer equipment business to private investors led by PARTER Capital Group, a German private equity firm.
After a long drawn out process, three Korean telcos are finally preparing to launch real time IPTV broadcasts after getting the green light from the
From Colin Mann in Amsterdam Scopus Video Networks is introducing its Integrated Receiver Processor (IRP) platform, the next generation of Scopus’s Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD) technology. Scopus Video Networks is introducing its Integrated Receiver Processor (IRP) platform, the next generation of Scopus’s Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD) technology. The versatile multiformat receiving/decoding/processing platform for cable, satellite, […]
The Open IPTV Forum, the pan-industry initiative that was established to produce the end-to-end solution specification which will open up access to the interactive and The new members are; EnCentro, HwaCom Systems, Institut fuer Rundfunktechnik, Neotion, Sigma Designs, UTStarcom and WyPlay …..
Red Bee opens gateway to Digital Hive From Colin Mann in Amsterdam Red Bee Media has extended its Digital Hive media management platform with a secure Media From Colin Mann in Amsterdam Red Bee Media has extended its Digital Hive media management platform with a secure Media Gateway to enable clients to transfer large media […]
ITN Clips on Demand ITN Source has launched Clips on Demand, the world's largest collection of broadcast-quality, ';rights-ready' video clips available for purchase and download online
Tandberg Television has revealed that Comstar-Direct, Russia’s leading provider of broadband Internet access services and a member of Comstar-UTS Group Telesystems is expanding its IPTV
Bob Iger, the chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, has called on Internet service providers to ban people who illegally download content. In July, six In July, six of the UK’s biggest ISPs signed a memorandum of understanding with the government, music industry body the BPI and the Motion Picture Association to reduce illegal […]
From Colin Mann in Amsterdam Pace plc is demonstrating the first set-top box capable of receiving and displaying DVB-T2 HD content at IBC 2008. Pace's prototype consists Pace plc is demonstrating the first set-top box capable of receiving and displaying DVB-T2 HD content at IBC 2008. Pace's prototype consists of the world's first DVB-T2 front-end […]