Widevine has revealed Panasonic has selected it as its preferred provider of video optimisation and digital rights management (DRM) solutions. Widevine’s video optimisation will provide adaptive streaming and virtual DVD experiences, while its DRM will keep content protected on Panasonic consumer electronics such as Viera connected TVs, Blu-ray disc players and more.
blinkx has turned its first profit in the six months to September, more than three years after the flotation of the online video company. Revenues doubled to $27.4 million with a pre-tax profit of $2 million compared with losses of $7.3 million in the same period last year. Because blinkx’s operating costs are growing at […]
Dish TV and content protection provider Conax further their long-term partnership. Dish TV is India’s largest and fastest growing DTH platform – experiencing exceptional growth since launch of its DTH operations in 2004. Content security provider Conax has provided the platform with smart cards for 7 years. To date, Dish TV has demonstrated a significant […]
Espial MediaBase has brrn selected by Otelco to provide premium VOD services to its IPTV customers in Alabama,. Using Espial MediaBase Otelco is now providing pay-per-view and video-on-demand (VOD) services to its IPTV and cable users. Since the initial launch of the new services, they are averaging 3 VOD sessions per subscriber per month. This […]
Danish public utility company and digital service provider TRE-FOR has substantially reduced maintenance costs for its IPTV operation after deploying a Bridge Technologies monitoring and analysis system. TRE-FOR supplies broadband and digital media services to subscribers in the Southern Danish Triangle region via an all-fiber infrastructure, and with the advanced analysis provided by the VideoBRIDGE […]
blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, has formed a partnership with Amino Communications. Under the terms of the partnership, Amino and blinkx will develop an integrated search, recommendation and personalisation solution powered by blinkx technology to be deployed on Amino’s hybrid/OTT set-top boxes, including the Amino Freedom, which brings broadcast, on-demand TV, open Internet […]
L4 Media, the interactive media company, has unveiled Panorama, the company’s new television widget platform. Panorama is designed for IPTV and television service providers who want to make it easy for consumers to access personalised content, like Twitter and Facebook updates, weather forecasts, and sports scores, directly from their televisions. L4 Media announced that Nokia […]
Civolution has signed an exclusive agreement with Sony’s Digital Cinema Solutions Group to integrate NexGuard – Digital Cinema watermarking into Sony 4K SXRD digital cinema systems for 3D stereoscopic and 4K resolution projections on a global scale. In this multi-year agreement, Sony’s Digital Cinema Solutions group will integrate Civolution’s watermarking technologies to market DCI compliant […]
CloverLeaf Digital, an independent provider of interactive television applications and services, has announced the introduction of its AppDaily TV apps solution. CloverLeaf’s television apps solution includes a quick-access personalised dashboard and app store, a full suite of localised news and information apps, social networking apps, and CloverLeaf’s DashDaily community publishing apps. Providers of IPTV and […]
Digital TV technology specialist Pace has acquired Latens Systems, the Belfast-based specialist in software-based Conditional Access/DRM and Middleware solutions for the pay-TV market in a £28.75 million (E32.72m) cash deal, of which £10 million is deferred and payable in 2012 subject to the achievement of conditions. Latens offers its solutions across cable, IPTV, DTH,and DTT, […]