Advanced Television

Middleware

Otelco Powers VOD services with Espial MediaBase

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 […]

November 10, 2010

Bridge Technologies reduces TRE-FOR’s maintenance costs with monitoring system

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 […]

November 10, 2010

blinkx ‘personal TV’ for Amino

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 […]

November 9, 2010

Panorama the IPTV widget platform

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 […]

November 9, 2010

Sony licenses Civolution NexGuard

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 […]

November 9, 2010

CloverLeaf introduces TV apps solution

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 […]

November 8, 2010

Pace buys Latens

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, […]

November 5, 2010From Colin Mann in London

Conax for India’s Fastway

Global security provider Conax has entered a contract with Fastway Transmission to deliver a Conax content security solution. Fastway Transmissions, partially owned by Reliance Group, is the leading cable TV provider in Punjab, Northern India, and among the largest in Asia. The contract includes Conax Chipset Pairing, Conax Fingerprinting, and Conax nVOD to ensure maximum […]

November 2, 2010

blinkx Beat for Google TV

blinkx, the video search engine, has launched blinkx Beat for Google TV. blinkx Beat is a playlist of the latest and most popular online videos  – available in full-screen, with single button control. Users can replay videos that they like and share them with friends. “blinkx Beat was designed and built to be watched like […]

November 1, 2010

BinWeevils launches “social VOD” service

BinWeevils, the immersive 3D online entertainment platform for children, has launched an integrated “social video-on-demand” service which will allow children to watch major TV hits from Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon. Available immediately, members of BinWeevils’ ‘Bin Tycoon’ subscription service will be able to pick from over 200 hours of on-demand TV content and communicate and […]

October 27, 2010