Advanced Television

Test & Monitor

MediaCityUK opens new analogue test facilities

The Landing, MediaCityUK’s digital enterprise hub, has added analogue testing facilities at its SPACE Interactive Media Labs following the installation of traditional copper connectivity to add to its existing dedicated fibre footprint. The SPACE Labs are some of the most sophisticated user-experience (UX) facilities in the UK. This install is in response to an increasing […]

January 12, 2015

Overnight ratings “worthless” says CBS

CBS chairman/CEO Les Moonves told an audience at CES in Las Vegas that overnight TV ratings were now antiquated and “basically worthless” as OTT and other ‘catch-up’ services proliferated. However, he also stressed that he had no objection to the normal linear broadcast system, which he hoped would stay in place, but said  “We don’t […]

January 8, 2015By Chris Forrester

Verimatrix and Broadcom collaborate

Verimatrix, a specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, has announced a collaboration with Broadcom to provide a comprehensive revenue security solution for ultra-HD video services. As a key component of that effort, the Verimatrix VideoMark forensic watermarking technology is now being introduced as an embedded security […]

January 7, 2015

Anevia next-gen Cloud Monitoring

Anevia has announced the first service in its new Cloud strategy. Introduced to Anevia customers and partners during its fist Cloud Conference, Anevia Cloud Monitoring is a software-as-a-service based application allowing global maintenance of enterprise television deployments based on Anevia Flamingo XL and XS IPTV head-ends. Anevia’s Cloud Monitoring service allows lost-channel issues such as […]

December 19, 2014

Thai PBS selects Audemat DVB-T2

WorldCast Systems has confirmedthe sale of 60 Audemat DVB-T2 monitoring platforms to the Thai Public Broadcasting Service. This follows hot on the heels of a similar project earlier this year when the company supplied almost 80 units to Channel 5, also in Thailand. Audemat DVB-T2 MonitorThai PBS will use the Audemat unit to monitor the […]

December 18, 2014

US broadcasters create Newcoin

US broadcasting companies FOX, Tribune Media, and Univision have joined forces with Timeline Labs to announce NewCoin, a new data venture aimed at addressing deficiencies in local market television audience measurement.  The mission of NewCoin is to harness the data gathering power of currently available and emerging technologies, in order to create a broader based […]

December 17, 2014

Envivio upgrades head-end Guru

Software-based video processing and delivery solutions specialist Envivio has introduced a new option for its Guru head-end monitoring solution  – a new ‘service-oriented’ approach to monitoring that results in faster and more efficient troubleshooting of video delivery networks, including cable, IPTV, satellite and OTT. This new option, available only through separate purchase, incorporates a service-driven, […]

December 9, 2014

Spain: Kantar Media launches Twitter TV ratings

Audience research company Kantar Media has launched Kantar Twitter TV ratings, the first measurement tool to analyse social media TV audiences in Spain.  It is the result of a global partnership with Twitter to implement a new suite of tools to support planning and analytics for the TV industry. Its first findings reveal that 61 […]

December 5, 2014From David Del Valle in Madrid

Axon launches SMART DVB suite

Axon Digital Design, a supplier of broadcast network infrastructure products and solutions, has announced the release of SMART DVB, a complete suite of tools to monitor, report and analyze live MPEG-2 and DVB transport streams. Powerful and versatile, the SMART DVB suite enables owners and operators to ensure health, conformity and quality across the digital […]

December 5, 2014

Digitalsmiths launches Seamless Insight

Digitalsmiths, a TiVo company, and specialist in personalised content search and recommendations, has launched Seamless Insight, a reporting and analytics platform. Seamless Insight provides video service providers actionable visibility to optimise targeted content promotions that increase average revenue per user (ARPU) and improve viewer engagement. As personalised content discovery features expand, video service providers face […]

December 3, 2014