Cisco has announced its intent to acquire privately held Pure Digital Technologies. San Francisco-based Pure Digital, creator of the best-selling Flip Video brand is a specialist in developing consumer-friendly video solutions with mass-market appeal. “The acquisition of Pure Digital is key to Cisco's strategy to expand our momentum in the media-enabled home and to capture […]
The broadcast MPEG encoder market grew in 2008, but growth will turn negative as the 2GHz relocation project in the US comes to an end, and the economy slumps. Overall, worldwide Real-Time Broadcast Encoder revenue will see a slight decline in 2009 mainly due to declining ASPs as units grow slightly. However, contraction will accelerate […]
Harmonic has completed the acquisition of Scopus Video Networks for approximately $50 million, net of Scopus’ cash and short-term investments. The acquisition strengthens Harmonic’s technology and market leadership, particularly in the broadcast contribution and distribution markets, in addition to increasing the global customer base. Scopus’ customers will be supported by the expanded regional Harmonic sales […]
Tektronix, global provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, has confirmed that Sichuan Changhong Electric has selected the Tektronix PQA500 picture quality analyser for its AVS (China's Audio and Video Coding Standard) encoder and decoder design. The adoption will help Changhong to optimise the codec performance and accelerate its video product development.
According to market research company Dittberner, annual FTTH shipments were up 71 per cent in 2008. Q4 2008 shipments rose slightly, but still broke 3 million for the first time. The Japanese market remains the main driver for FTTH, adding a little over 700,000 subscribers in the fourth quarter to close in on 14.5 Million […]
The chances of BT spending £1.5bn (E1.7bn) on a superfast broadband network have increased after Ofcom said its rules would not prevent the telecoms operator from securing an adequate return on its investment. Ed Richards, chief executive of Ofcom, told the FT the planned regulatory regime for BT's network would not be an "obstacle". Since […]
Unique to the test and monitoring industry, we speak the language of both broadcasters and service providers. Nearly every television show that airs in the world today passes through Tektronix video testing and monitoring equipment. We’ve won six Emmy awards for our technical contribution to the industry. We also have 30% of the world’s communications […]
The Synergy report finds that IPTV equipment sales continue to be driven by upgrades to Carrier networks, especially at the Edge, handling the surge in subscriber and traffic growth. Synergy anticipates Worldwide IPTV subscribers are set to increase substantially over the next two years and approach close to 40 million by 2010. Synergy research further […]
"Cable, broadcast and telco TV are all highly competitive markets for video servers," noted ABI Research industry analyst Zippy Aima. "Cable and broadcast are the more traditional modes of entertainment for consumers, but cable providers and telcos have been quicker to adapt to market trends and to offer innovative consumer services. But to remain competitive, […]