Exterity, the Building IPTV specialist, has unveiled a new version of its AvediaPlayer receiver range. The upgrade offers an enhanced core browser that improves visual functionality for organisations who want to provide live or on-demand access to TV, video and AV content over an IP Network. This latest version of the AvediaPlayer receiver harnesses the […]
Mariner today announced that Telus has selected Mariner xVu IPTV service monitoring solution to assist with customer assurance of its IPTV-based Optik TV. SupportVu, an application within Mariner’s award winning xVu suite of IPTV Quality of Experience (QoE) monitoring tools, will deliver real time performance insight to both Optik TV’s customer support and field repair […]
More than 42 million homes across the US and Europe are using the Internet to watch television shows and movies on the TV screen, according to research from Strategy Analytics’ Connected Home Devices (CHD) service. The report – Multiscreen Connected TV: Assessing Device Usage and Ownership – bases its findings on a survey of 4,800 […]
Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who created KaZaA, Skype, Joost and Rdio, are setting up a service called Vdio. The startup has $5.6 million backing and is headed by Europlay Capital Advisors’ Semion Smushkevich. It’s unclear what Vdio will be but it could be an unlimited movie subscription service like Netflix. Currently in closed beta, […]
Forty-four per cent of TV households in the United States have at least one Digital Video Recorder (DVR), and one-third of DVR households have more than one DVR -representing 14 per cent of all households having multiple DVRs according to recent consumer research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG). In 2005, just 8 per cent of […]
US telco AT&T has unveiled a number of ways to allow its U-verse TV customers to bring together their favourite social apps on their smartphone or tablet with what they’re watching on TV. With the U-verse IP platform, U-verse TV and High Speed Internet customers can now connect their qualifying smartphone or tablet to any […]
Thomson Video Networks and Netgem have announced a partnership to offer broadcasters and telcos a best-of-breed platform for IPTV and OTT services. The two companies have completed a test and validation programme for the interoperability of the Thomson ViBE VS7000 convergent video system and the Netgem N5000 and N8000 range of IPTV set-top boxes. “The […]
NDS has confirmed that Darsh Digital, an independent cable operator in India, has selected an end-to-end suite of technologies from NDS to enable the launch of their digital pay-TV service. Headquartered in Patna, Bihar with an existing base of analogue subscribers, the new service from Darsh Digital will provide enhanced functionality and value-added content for […]
Groovy Gecko, a specialist provider of on-demand streaming and live webcasting, and Kaltura, developer of an open source video platform, has announced a partnership to distribute Kaltura’s online video platform with Groovy Gecko’s streaming and webcasting services. The platform will allow Groovy Gecko’s clients to create an integrated video ‘ecosystem’. This will enable them to […]
Sesame Street’s YouTube channel has been taken offline after hackers uploaded pornographic videos. A message posted alongside the adult videos stated: “Who doesn’t like porn kids?” The Sesame Street account was taken offline within 20 minutes of the problem being spotted. YouTube said: “Our Community Guidelines prohibit graphic content. As always, we remove inappropriate material […]