SES Americom has teamed with advertising technology specialist Packet Vision, to enable telecommunications carriers using SES Americom’s IP-Prime IPTV service to generate advertising revenue through the insertion of targeted local ads. SES says using Packet Vision’s advanced IP-based advertising solution, operators offering IP-Prime service will be able to maximise the use of their local ad […]
French broadcasting regulator the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel is allowing broadcast transmission specialist TDF to carry out a trial of personal mobile television in the stations and tunnels of Paris's urban transport network. The three-month trial ends on January 15 2008.
Verizon Wireless has formed an agreement with Sony Pictures Television to offer The Minisode Network on V CAST. The channel offers four to six minute versions of the studio's television shows and allows customers with V CAST-enabled phones to watch the minisodes through their mobile phones. The shows offered as minisodes include classics such as […]
Latens Systems announced that Farmers Telephone Cooperative, in South Carolina, has selected Latens' Foundation CA Solution (FCAS) to secure its IPTV services. FTC has chosen the pre-integrated Latens and Minerva solution, which comprises Latens FCAS and Minerva's iTV Manager middleware. This will run on set-top boxes from Motorola and ADB, to provide FTC with a […]
Orca Interactive, provider of IPTV middleware and applications, has confirmed that UNE-EPM Telecommunications, provider of Internet, telephony and television services in Colombia, has selected Orca's advanced RiGHTv middleware to enable the first IPTV service rollout in Colombia. The IPTV deployment will be carried out by Union Electrica Orca's partner and system integrator in the project, […]
Thomson has revealed that GDC, provider of soultions for digital cinema, has selected NexGuard, Thomson's comprehensive forensic tracking product line, for integration into 1,200 digital cinema servers. GDC digital cinema servers will now embed NexGuard's audio and visual forensic watermarking solution. NexGuard combats in-theatre piracy by offering forensic means to identify the date, time and […]
According to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the future of digital TV could be adversely affected by decisions taken at the ITU World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-07) opening this week in Geneva. One of the items on the Conference’s agenda concerns the identification of frequency bands for international mobile telecommunications (IMT) services. The bands under consideration […]
NBC Universal has removed all its video clips from YouTube and closed a promotional channel on the site in advance of the launch next week of its own rival service, Hulu. NBC said it was intended to provide a boost to Hulu, which is a joint venture with News Corp's Fox division, and did not […]
Digiturk, Turkey’s largest digital television broadcaster, plans to raise as much as $550 million (E386m) in an IPO of 25 per cent of its business. The company is controlled by Istanbul conglomerate Cukurova and Providence Equity Partners. The pair are selling down their holding from 100 to 75 per cent. The Turkish media sector is […]
EchoStar and its subsidiary EchoStar FSS have unveiled ViP-TV, an IP-based service that will transport more than 300 channels of secure broadcast programming delivered via satellite to telco, private and rural cable operators, municipalities and master planned community video providers.EchoStar described ViP-TV as its turnkey solution for wholesale multichannel content transport and distribution. The offering […]