Advanced Television

Test & Monitor

Teleste security for Samsung hospitality TVs

Teleste has embedded a Samsung LYNK DRM system into its Teleste Luminato headend platform. The implementation has been carried out in partnership with Samsung Electronics, and it enables hospitality service providers and integrators to easily deliver secured, premium HDTV content to Samsung Hospitality TVs. For the first time in the world, the solution introduces a […]

February 11, 2015

Ericsson, Agama engage in the World Ski Championships 2015

Agama Technologies, the video service quality assurance expert, has been selected by Ericsson to monitor and assure the next-gen, interactive viewing experience that it is creating for the 2015 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, taking place in Falun, Sweden, from February 18th to March 1st. As the digital experience partner for the Falun2015 event, Ericsson is […]

February 10, 2015

Envivio powers Chunghwa’s 4K trial

Envivio, the experts in multi-screen video software solutions, have announced that Chunghwa Telecom, the Taiwanese telco serving more than 30 million broadband, mobile and fixed line subscribers, has selected Envivio video solutions for its 4K HEVC streaming service trial. In the trial, Envivio is using its Muse Ultra HD software to support two modes of […]

February 6, 2015

Rentrak services for Tribune

Rentrak, a specialist in precisely measuring movies and TV everywhere, has announced an agreement with Tribune Broadcasting, a division of Tribune Media Company, to provide the company with Rentrak’s full suite of local market ratings services, including its automotive and political Advanced Demographics, for all Tribune Broadcasting television stations. Rentrak has been furnishing ratings information […]

February 4, 2015

IneoQuest launches Endpoint Analytics SDK

IneoQuest Technologies, an expert in video analytics and service assurance solutions, has confirmed the release of its Endpoint Analytics SDK, giving Video Service Providers (VSPs) real-time visibility into the customer experience by delivering behavioural and operational data directly from endpoint devices to IneoQuest’s Audience Measurement Platform for Adaptive Streaming (AMP ASM). Integrating the Endpoint Analytics […]

February 3, 2015

Médiamétrie TV Twitter ratings

French ratings institute Médiamétrie has launched, in association with Twitter, its Twitter TV Ratings tool that measures the number of tweets made in relation to a television programme. Proving that entertainment programmes are amongst the most tweeted about shows – and also engage viewers beyond the broadcast of the programme itself – Médiamétrie points out […]

January 30, 2015From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

DTG HDMI interoperability testing

DTG Testing is launching an HDMI interoperability testing service using the DTG’s unique receiver collection (Zoo). Many of DTG Testing’s customers have found that HDMI compliance and certification does not guarantee that licensed CE devices will function correctly and be fully interoperable with other HDMI licensed devices. Issues such as audio/video synchronisation, incorrect aspect ratio, […]

January 23, 2015

DataMiner deployed to monitor Russian earth station for satellite TV

Skyline Communications, global leader in end-to-end multi-vendor network management and OSS solutions for the satellite, broadcast, IPTV and HFC broadband industries, announces that one of the leading telecommunications operators in Russia and CIS countries has deployed the DataMiner end-to-end multi-vendor network management platform to monitor and control the equipment in its satellite earth station in […]

January 21, 2015

comScore cross device measurement

The measurement firm comScore plans to introduce a new measurement for tracking video audiences across computers, mobile and other streaming devices. ComScore previously measured digital video audiences only on desktops and laptops. The new metric should provide additional information for television networks and advertisers. ComScore’s initial research revealed that by counting the number of people […]

January 19, 2015

Rentrak patent on TV Return Path info

Rentrak, a specialist in precisely measuring movies and TV everywhere, today announced that it has been granted another patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office. U.S. Patent No. 8,930,978 is for detecting and correcting TV viewership levels caused by missing or “dropped” set-top box viewing information. Given that cable, telco and satellite operators may […]

January 13, 2015