Media and device testing specialists, Eurofins Digital Testing (formally Digital TV Labs) has announced that they are building a complete test suite covering DVB-T2/HEVC and HbbTV for MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH, Germany’s largest full-service provider for the broadcast and media industry. Additionally, MEDIA BROADCAST has licensed Eurofins Digital Testing’s industry-standard Ligada iSuite for HbbTV, and the […]

French music television channel D17 has enriched the viewing experience for its audience with a new app that forms a major element of its second screen strategy.  ‘D17 Connect’ feature synchronises content between the main and companion screens and is powered by Kantar Media’s SyncNow technology. Kantar Media’s SyncNow service makes smart devices, including smartphones, […]

Nagra, a digital TV division of the Kudelski Group and independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, has been selected by Vietnam largest cable operator, VTVcab, to support the service provider’s new digital TV platform and ongoing digitisation efforts. Nagra will provide VTVcab with its anyCAST content protection, OpenTV 5 HTML5 connectware, Gravity […]

Rovi has made significant enhancements to its entertainment discovery portfolio for India. Rovi has expanded its metadata coverage to the top OTT and Indian pay-TV providers, including more than 20 of the most popular multi-system operators (MSOs) and DTH providers. New features include regionalized metadata, such as program descriptions and celebrity profiles, written by editors […]

Accenture has entered into an agreement to acquire S3 TV Technology, a business unit of Dublin-headquartered S3 Group that delivers consultancy, automated testing, service monitoring and diagnostic solutions to video service providers globally. S3 TV Technology is comprised of all the TV technology resources and assets of S3 Group. Accenture will integrate S3 TV Technology’s […]

Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services, has introduced an expanded range of VideoMark content tracking and watermarking solutions. Using different components of a greatly extended VideoMark toolbox and the integrated hardware subsystems of today’s most advanced system-on-chips (SoCs), Verimatrix now offers a comprehensive spectrum of forensic anti-piracy […]

BARC India, the television rating company formed by broadcasters, advertising agencies and advertisers and TAM India, the television audience measurement joint venture between Nielsen and Kantar, have announced the formation of a new Meter management company. This will run the meter operations and will supply raw data to BARC India. Meters will be deployed based […]

Globecast has installed the Actus Platform monitoring solution in its Media Centres. The new implementation will enable Globecast to provide compliance and content quality monitoring to its broadcast clients, including BBC Worldwide. To support this, the Actus system stores and provides access to channel content in native format from the transport stream (TS) feed, which […]