Copyright holders would be paying 75 per cent of any infringement challenge costs according to the Minister of Communications, Ed Vaizey. ISP’s would be paying the remaining 25 per cent of the costs. This will include funding free appeals for those who are accused of downloading or sharing copyrighted material, though the Department says it […]
MoCA, the worldwide standard for home entertainment networking, has confirmed its membership in CEDIA, the Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association. Membership is part of the Alliance’s strategy of educating electronic system contractors about the technological and economic benefits of MoCA technology for moving HD content around the home using already existing coaxial […]
ZON TVCabo has selected Concurrent’s video delivery platform to expand its service offerings to its more than 1.6 million customers in Portugal. Concurrent will provide ZON with a unified video delivery and media data collection and management system, extending and expanding its current use of Concurrent’s media data management solutions and operational reporting services. […]
UPC Nederland has demonstrated its new ‘Remote Recording’ application. This will allow UPC Digital TV customers, when they are traveling or online at work to set up recording on their UPC Media boxes from their iPhone, iPad, other mobile browsers or online. ‘Remote Recording’ is available as a free service to customers. The service has […]
Connected entertainment specialist Netgem has unveiled a significant development of its NetgemTV middleware to support new adaptive TV technologies. Extending the reach of pay-TV Operators, these new features are geared to enable the creation of multi-screen services which can be delivered securely and consistently. Microsoft’s Silverlight and Play Ready plug-ins have been integrated into Netgem’s […]
ARRIS announced that Kabel Deutschland (KD) has selected ARRIS to supply its ongoing M-CMTS, Digital TV and VOD deployments going forward, using the D5 Universal Edge QAM. Additionally, ARRIS and KD have agreed to collaborate on advancing support for the DVB-C2 standard, which is a critical component in KD’s plans for deploying DVB-C2 broadcast and […]
Harmonic announces the new Rhozet Workflow System (WFS) Appliance, a fully-integrated, enterprise-class transcoding server solution. For your reference, the full press release is enclosed below. Highlights of the announcement include: The Rhozet Workflow System (WFS) Appliance, a fully-integrated, enterprise-class transcoding server solution that delivers remarkable performance while reducing operating expenses by easing installation, configuration and […]
Swissom has offered to buy out its remaining fellow shareholders in Fastweb, giving the Swiss telecommunications group full control of its troubled Italian subsidiary. The Swiss group will offer Fastweb shareholders E18 a share – 34 per cent, over this weeks prior average price. The all-cash deal will cost the highly profitable Swiss group […]
Harmonic’s digital video headend solutions have been deployed by On Digital Media (ODM) to power its new TopTV pay TV service in South Africa. The headend system includes Harmonic’s Electra 5400 MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) multi-channel encoders and the ProStream 1000 stream processing platform with DiviTrackIP statistical multiplexing. This new solution was implemented for ODM in […]
Arris has revealed that its Touchstone Telephony Gateway TG852G has been awarded DOCSIS 3.0 certification in CableLabs’ Wave #76. The TG852G hardware is the newest generation Arris DOCSIS 3.0-certified wireless gateway with support for up to 8 bonded downstream channels and up to 4 bonded upstream channels — which can deliver in excess of […]