Advanced Television

Test & Monitor

TiVo buying ad track company

TiVo is to acquire full ownership in TRA, a research company with a system that matches up television viewing with consumer buying habits. The NYT reports TiVo will spend about $20 million to buy out other investors in TRA.  “We believe television is at an inflection point,” Tom Rogers, TiVo CEO said. “In the digital […]

July 17, 2012

The VB330 10G probe, now with OTT capability

By the use of the VB330 monitoring probe, existing Bridge Technologies’ customers can extend their monitoring capabilities to their 10G based network interfaces. At the same time the VB330 probe answers to new requirements by the operators that are in a need of high capacity monitoring of Over-The-Top (OTT) or broadcast video. VB330 with its […]

July 16, 2012

Tektronix announces new repair and calibration lab in Orsay, France

Tektronix the multi-vendor service (MVS) provider of instrument calibration, repair and related services, has opened a new calibration and repair laboratory at its French headquarters in Orsay, France. This new laboratory has been awarded ISO9000 certification for repair and calibration by DEKRA, a global service provider for testing, inspections and certification. Tektronix already has labs […]

July 12, 2012

DTG Testing and Mirifice automated MHEG testing

DTG Testing, the digital TV industry’s test house and subsidiary of the Digital TV Group (the industry association for digital TV in the UK), and Mirifice, a specialist in test and monitoring systems for broadcast, have extended their existing partnership to include automated MHEG testing of set-top boxes, recorders and iDTVs. DTG Testing and Mirifice […]

July 5, 2012

ByteBlower 2100: Higher speed, higher accuracy

The new ByteBlower 2100 is more than an evolution of the current ByteBlower 1000 series. It combines its ease-of-use, flexibility, scalability and competitive price with four Gigabit interfaces supporting line-rate speed with all packet sizes. On top of this performance boost, the ByteBlower 2100 also comes with an unrivalled port density: it can be configured […]

July 4, 2012

Rentrak launches Studio Share module in OnDemand Essentials system

Rentrak, an expert in multi-screen media measurement serving the advertising, television and entertainment industries, has announced the company’s new Studio Share module to the OnDemand Essentials system.  This new module is the first to provide a transparent view of competitive video-on-demand (VoD) information and industry data to participating motion picture studios. This transparency allows movie […]

July 3, 2012

Adap.tv Campaign Optimizer for video

Adap.tv has unveiled its Campaign Optimizer for video, a technology that provides buyers with full visibility into the results of a campaign before running a single impression. Using historical data to analyse billions of impressions, the Campaign Optimizer allows buyers to set the performance goals they want, and get the real-time price and inventory availability […]

June 25, 2012

Canal Digital Kabel selects Agama

Agama Technologies, the DTV quality assurance expert, has revealed that Canal Digital Kabel TV, Norway’s largest distributor of TV and broadband within the cable segment, has selected to deploy a full-scale Agama DTV Monitoring Solution for end-to-end quality assurance of its nationwide cable TV service. With this deployment, covering the distribution network all the way […]

June 13, 2012

Norway’s Canal Digital Kabel TV selects Agama for end-to-end DVB-C quality assurance

Agama Technologies, the DTV quality assurance expert, has announced that Canal Digital Kabel TV, Norway’s largest distributor of TV and broadband within the cable segment, has selected to deploy a full-scale Agama DTV Monitoring Solution for end-to-end quality assurance of its nationwide cable TV service. With this deployment, covering the distribution network all the way […]

June 13, 2012

Swiss netplus deploys Agama solution

Agama Technologies, the DTV quality assurance expert, has revealed that  netplus, a triple-play service provider owned by a group of cable operators in Switzerland, has deployed a powerful service monitoring solution from Agama in its CATV head-end. With continuous and in-depth real-time monitoring of all services, netplus is equipped for rapid problem discovery and structured […]

June 12, 2012