Comtrend Corporation, supplier of powerline equipment for IPTV home distribution, has revealed that it shipped more than 800,000 powerline adapters for IPTV applications during 2007, confirming recent independent analysis that shows strong demand for the technology, as a result of an explosion in subscriber growth. According to the DSL Forum, year-on-year European IPTV subscriber growth […]
SES Sirius has confirmed that the Sirius 4 communications satellite is now in operation and has taken over all transmissions from Sirius 2 and Sirius 3. Sirius 4 is intended to meet the increased demand for HDTV broadcasts in the Nordic countries, and the needs arising from the large increase in new television channels within […]
Packet Vision – player in targeted, addressable advertising for IPTV – has announced the completion of the world's first targeted TV advertising campaign to a predefined audience. The campaign featuring a Mediacom financial client ran daily on Channel 4 between 16 and 31 October. It was specifically targeted at university students across the UK so […]
Digital Latin America, provider of digital content and applications for Latin America, and Widevine Technologies, provider of multiformat, multiplatform content protection and watermarking solutions, have partnered to secure content for digital pay-TV operators throughout Latin America. Widevine will encrypt and watermark content that DLA delivers to 23 countries to fulfil content owners‚ requirements for licensing […]
NDS, provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, has joined forces with Kaonmedia (Kaon) to deliver digital set-top boxes (STB) and DVRs, including a DVR for viewing in High Definition, to ASTER, a provider of media and communication services in Poland.
The Office of the Telecommunications Authority has launched its second consultation on the development of mobile television services in Hong Kong. It proposes to allocate one multiplex in the UHF Band and two multiplexes in Band III for deployment of broadcast-type mobile TV services. For the allocation of the multiplexes in UHF Band and Band […]
From Colin Mann in London UK Business and Enterprise Secretary John Hutton has ordered BSkyB to reduce its 17.9 per cent holding in ITV to a level below 7.5 per cent, having concurred with the Competition Commission’s decision that the transaction resulted in a substantial lessening of competition within the UK market for all television. […]
UK STB maker Pace Micro posted strong profits for the second half of 2007, and said it was confident of meeting full-year 2008 expectations. The company, currently in the process of buying Philips Electronics set-top box business for a reported E95 million, reported a net profit of £14.4 million (E19.3m) for the seven months, compared […]
CA and DRM specialist NDS has released its operating results for the quarter ended December 2007. Total revenue for the three-month period was $214.9 million, an increase of 30 per cent over the corresponding period of the previous year. For the six-month period ended December, 2007, revenue was $419.8 million, an increase of 28 per […]
Gore's Current files IPO to fund growth Al Gore's Current Media, the online media company, plans an initial public offering that could see it raise up to $100 million. Current's planned IPO comes at an uncertain time for equity markets worldwide. The planned flotation comes as Current attempts to capitalise on growing interest in its […]