Alcatel-Lucent has revealed that Velton Telecom, a private Ukrainian operator providing fixed communication services across 14 cities of Central, Eastern and Western parts of Ukraine, is launching a field trial of innovative IPTV services to business and residential subscribers in Kharkov and Poltava. Alcatel-Lucent has been selected as the network integrator, utilising the Microsoft Mediaroom […]

NDS , the provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, and Telekom Austria, the fixed net subsidiary of Telekom Austria Group, have extended their relationship to secure the operator's IPTV service. Building on their existing relationship, the agreement will see NDS integrate its VideoGuard encryption technology with the new platform to ensure that the operator's […]

Conax had continued growth in 2009 achieving a 15 per cent market share in the global DVB market and winning the most new contracts globally for the fifth year running. Conax is one of the top three content security providers for digital TV and content distribution world-wide. A niche provider of security with a global […]

Irdeto has announced its full compatibility with Abertis Telecom's TDT Premium content protection solution. Irdeto and Abertis Telecom, one of the leading telco infrastructure and services operators in Europe, have worked to validate the Irdeto Conditional Access System (CAS) integration into Abertis Telecom's open digital terrestrial TV TDT platform. This milestone will give Spanish TV […]

Thousands of TV programmes, catch-up TV VOD archives, Internet-TV services, video-sharing platforms and personal content currently compete for audiences. With such a huge range of content, the EPG is being promoted to the increasingly important role of an entertainment guide for content-overloaded digital living rooms. That's according to the report 'EPGs and TV Middleware Applications: […]

On Digital Media has selected NDS as technology provider and prime integrator to support the launch of its direct-to-home DTH platform in South Africa. The new service, TopTV, will go live in Q2 2010. On Digital Media will secure their MPEG4 DVB-S2-based service using NDS' VideoGuard conditional access technology. To enable the platform and provide […]

Strategy & Technology (S&T), a specialist in MHEG middleware and interactive playout systems, has announced that its RedKey 2 MHEG engine is powering the text and interactive services in the new Humax Freeview HD set-top box. The Humax HD-FOX T2 is the first DVB-T2 capable Freeview HD receiver to go on sale in the UK. […]

Latens, developer of middleware and software-based security solutions for IPTV and cable services, has unveiled CAS 5 – a software only Conditional Access System which will work on all networks – Cable, DTH, DTT, IP and Hybrid from the same head end, thereby making it a safe investment no matter how operators decide to expand […]

Nagravision has revealed that its Nagra Media Access conditional access system (CAS) has been selected by SkyLife, the sole DTH pay TV service provider in Korea with 2.4 million subscribers to secure their new HD platform. SkyLife, one of the largest and most advanced DTH operators in Asia, is aggressively migrating from standard definition to […]

Qualcomm, developer of advanced wireless technologies, products and services, has announced FLO-EV, the next evolution of the FLO air interface for new deployments of mobile TV and other advanced broadcast mobile media services. Intended primarily for international markets, FLO-EV builds on the success of FLO technology to enable a rich suite of mobile content and […]