Advanced Television

Test & Monitor

Nagra secures OTT services

Nagra, the independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, has revealed that a growing numbers of pay-TV service providers are deploying over-the-top services on existing devices and chipsets utilising Nagra content protection solutions. Mediaset, Italy’s leading pay-TV provider and current Nagra customer, is the latest European operator to utilise Nagra to securely deliver […]

April 8, 2011

TRA and NDS partner on ad track solutions

TRA, a media measurement and analytics software company, and NDS have formed a partnership to market TV advertising accountability solutions. TRA will integrate NDS Dynamic Audience Measurement data into TRA’s patented Media TRAnalytics software to enable advanced reporting and analysis of return on investment for advertisers, agencies, networks and platform operators. “With TRA’s solution, advertisers […]

April 7, 2011

Rovi tests its smart TV ads

Rovi Corporation has announced the Rovi Smart TV Field Trial, an initiative created to explore new and emerging advertising opportunities on television and other devices connected to the Internet. The programme enables companies to test campaigns across a wide variety of platforms including TVs, Blu-Ray Players and other devices. By participating, the companies will not […]

April 5, 2011

Cabot debuts Robotester

DVB middleware solution provider Cabot Communications is leveraging its experience in TV services by introducing Robotester, an automated hardware and software testing framework for the digital TV industry. Robotester’s automated system performs key tests on DVB-enabled devices in five per cent of the time it takes a person to do it manually, reducing time to […]

April 4, 2011

Cabot streamlines digital TV testing with launch of Robotester

Cabot Communications, the DVB middleware solution provider, has launched Robotester, a revolutionary new automated hardware and software testing framework for the digital TV industry. Robotester’s automated system performs key tests on DVB-enabled devices in five per cent of the time it takes a person to do it manually, reducing time to market and the associated […]

April 4, 2011

Civolution watermarking solution

Civolution has announced two new additions to its NexGuard watermarking technologies that enables watermarking of pre-release content in the Apple ProRes 422 codec. The new NexGuard technologies are a software plug-in for Final Cut Studio and a standalone software solution to process ProRes.mov files. NexGuard’s watermarking plug-in for Final Cut Studio allows users to embed […]

April 1, 2011

Online video advertisers need to measure performance

It is critical that online advertisers independently track the efficacy of the billions being spent on Internet advertising, according to Anthony Rushton, co-founder of Telemetry. Commenting on the release of figures that reveal that the value of online advertising broke the £4 billion barrier in 2010, Rushton pointed out that the main sector of growth […]

March 30, 2011

CMMB demos mobile multimedia broadcasting

CMMB America, together with Canadian technology provider Unique Broadband Systems and Hong Kong affiliate CMMB Vision, have announced the successful demonstration of CMMB mobile TV signals for over mobile network frequencies in a trial demonstration near Denver, Colorado. The field demonstration is the first ever for CMMB in the US and signifies the Company’s first […]

March 29, 2011

Agama launches 4.0 DTV monitoring solution

Agama Technologies, the quality assurance expert, has announced the launch of version 4.0 of the Agama DTV Monitoring Solution for cable, DTH and IPTV operators – which includes a system-wide remake of the GUI, and a foundation restructure to strongly increase the solution’s openness and scalability. The Agama DTV Monitoring Solution is a complete and […]

March 21, 2011

Agama launches fourth generation of its DTV monitoring solution at IP&TV World Forum

Agama Technologies, the quality assurance expert, has announced the launch of version 4.0 of the Agama DTV Monitoring Solution for cable, DTH and IPTV operators. Visitors to Agama’s stand 179 at IP&TV World Forum will be able to see live demonstrations of v4.0, which includes a system-wide remake of the GUI, and a foundation restructure […]

March 21, 2011