The countdown for Arianespace’s Flight 201 is on again. The original launch was suspended on March 30 in the final seconds prior to lift-off when an on-board anomaly was detected on the launch vehicle. YahSat Y1A and Intelsat’s New Dawn will now take to the skies aboard the giant Ariane 5 ECA rocket on the […]
American viewers want their local TV news, almost above all else. DirecTV says it already supplies local HDTV channels to 174 specific market regions in the USA. That number will grow by another 16 additional markets, which will also include HDTV transmissions, by the end of this year. For customers who live within each new […]
SES Astra’s UK and Ireland orbital slot at 28.2 deg East is to get a new satellite, Astra 2E, launched in Q2/2013 by Arianespace. Astra 2E will be built by Astrium using a Eurostar E3000 platform, and will be fitted with active Ku-band and Ka-band transponders. Its designed life time is 15 years. The satellite […]
HD+ is the mechanism where Germany’s commercial broadcasters can soft-encrypt their high-definition output. The system has been adopted by eight commercial channels in HD: RTL HD, SAT.1 HD, ProSieben HD, VOX HD, kabel eins HD, RTL II HD, SPORT 1 HD and sixx HD. The channels are broadcast encrypted and are available for a technical […]
To respond to increasing HD demand from its clients, GlobeCast has concluded a five-year contract with Eutelsat Communications for a third transponder on its EuroBird 9A satellite, which will carry a full HD DVB-S2 platform. The first clients on the platform already include Eurosport and Fashion One. Eutelsat’s EuroBird 9A satellite was chosen for its […]
To respond to increasing HD demand from its clients, GlobeCast has concluded a five-year contract with Eutelsat Communications for a third transponder on its EuroBird 9A satellite, which will carry a full HD DVB-S2 platform. The first clients on the platform already include Eurosport and Fashion One. Eutelsat’s EuroBird 9A satellite was chosen for its […]
SES Astra, an SES company, has revealed that its 100 per cent owned subsidiary Astra Platform Services (APS) has opened a new playout centre in Unterföhring near Munich. With the new centre, one of the most important and modern technical hubs of its kind in Europe, APS will significantly expand its capabilities to provide broadcasters […]
RRsat Global Communications Network, a provider of comprehensive content management and global distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting industry, has announced the implementation of its new MCPC platform on Hispasat 1E satellite at 30° west. The MCPC platform will cater specifically to Latin America, utilising the downlink, uplink, space segment, and playout services […]
Viasat Broadcasting is offering the Champions League quarter-final 2nd leg tie between Manchester United and Chelsea live in 3D. The 3D broadcast will be available in Sweden, Norway and Denmark on April 12th. It will be the eighth sports event broadcast in 3D by Viasat Broadcasting since its launch of 3D in December. The 3D […]
Take-up of digital television in UK households is at 92.5 per cent, up by 1.1 percentage points year on year, according to Ofcom’s consumer survey results for the fourth quarter of 2010. Ofcom found that 75.8 per cent of all secondary TV sets had been converted to digital by the end of December 2010, up […]