A media industry project aimed at making content more accessible and user-friendly is pressing ahead with its plans to create the basis for a universally recognisable way to communicate rights information for online content. The objective of the Linked Content Coalition (LCC) is to create something that would achieve what the banking sector’s ‘IBAN’ achieves. […]
Yahsat is supplying an all-HDTV service by satellite over the Middle East. Its CEO, Mohamed Youssif, told the BroadcastPro summit in Dubai that HDTV was the new TV standard and fast gaining acceptance in the Middle East. Yahsat is now transmitting more than 40 HDTV channels. “Television technology rolls in twenty year cycles. Two decades […]
George Entwistle, who took office as Director-General of the BBC as recently as September 17th, has resigned from the post in the wake of controversy surrounding editorial standards following the handling of alleged child abuse revelations in current affairs programme Newsnight. In a statement, Entwistle, who had worked at the BBC since 1989, said: “In […]
Farncombe and Intertrust Technologies have confirmed the implementation of a common encryption system for IP multicast. The move potentially enables IPTV companies to adopt a ‘Simulcrypt’ model over their networks combining both Conditional Access (CA) and Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies – thereby enabling seamless secure content distribution to a variety of devices using different […]
Continuing to expand the reach and diversity of its Membership, CASBAA has welcomed Corporate Members VTC from Vietnam and Sky Net of Myanmar, as well as Hong Kong’s TMS and the Motion Picture Association. Patron Member upgrades have also been registered by satellite operator Eutelsat of Paris and Sky News Australia in Sydney. “The CASBAA […]
ALi Corporation, a set-top-box solution provider, has announced that ALi and MNITI have agreed to join forces on introducing a reference STB solution to assist Russian STB manufacturers in the deployment of digital terrestrial television adopting the DVB-T2 standard. MNITI, Moscow Scientific-Research Television Institute, is the leading organisation in Russia in the field of television […]
The UK’s major mobile network operators have revealed they have made further progress in speeding up the deployment of 4G mobile phone services in the 800 MHz frequency band vacated by the Digital Switchover, and will ensure that consumers continue to receive clear Freeview TV signals. A joint statement from comms regulator Ofcom, the Government […]
The UK Digital Production Partnership (DPP) has unveiled its Technical Standard for delivery of Live Television programmes. Following the agreement of UK file delivery standards for programmes, the DPP identified the need to standardise live programme delivery amongst UK broadcasters, focusing on HD, which is fast becoming the de facto standard for most live productions. The […]
The Digital TV Group (DTG), the industry association for digital TV in the UK, has released the second version of D-Book 7 Part B (the technical specification for UK connected TV products and services) to both members and non-members of the DTG. In line with the DTG’s commitment to international harmonisation of connected TV standards, […]
Only a standardised approach to the cloud-delivered service environment will enable a breakthrough in interoperable seamless service integration into devices, warns global networking standards group, the UPnP Forum. This announcement comes during the IBC in Amsterdam, where a focus is being placed on the pioneering applications and technologies that are driving the future of device […]