T-VIPS, a specialist in professional video contribution and distribution solutions, and ProTelevision, a supplier of the modulators, repeaters and transceivers, have worked together to develop a joint DVB-T2-Lite transmission solution. The solution will power a trial for the Danish operator, Open Channel, which will go live post-IBC. The solution has been designed to enable operators […]
CTV Advertising has begun an intensive research project into the psychological and sociological factors affecting user experiences and wide-spread implications of interactive television and TV Apps. The firm’s goals are not just to discover new ways to create higher level brand engagement, but also to establish best practices for content producers and broadcasters to affect […]
Home input device and interaction mechanism specialist ruwido has launched its ‘companion box’, a solution that connects smartphones to the television in the living room to individualise content offerings and personalise the viewing experience. The companion box consists of both hardware and software solutions. The hardware component is able to send Infra-Red (IR) commands and […]
As IBC 2011 gets under way, the HbbTV (Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV) consortium has revealed that since opening for membership in May 2011, it has now reached fifty members. HbbTV is an industry initiative that brings together broadcast and broadband TV services into one seamless user experience. The HbbTV standard utilises existing standards and web […]
White-label video publishing company and independent subsidiary of Comcast, thePlatform, has been selected by international cable operator Liberty Global to provide the back-end video management system across its online video properties. Liberty Global – which has operations in 14 countries – will use thePlatform’s ‘TV Everywhere’ solution to enable subscribers to catch-up and watch more […]
Strong, a provider of Digital TV STBs in Europe, has selected the AccessMyTV platform to launch a personalised connected TV service. Strong will launch in spring 2012 new Hybrid set-top boxes, which will provide consumers with an OTT TV viewing experience. StrongTV enables the broadcast industry to embrace rather than fight OTT video delivery,” said […]
Australian broadband company Internode has become the first company to deliver the fetchtv IP TV service over Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN), showing it in action at a house in the western Sydney suburb of Bunya. Although the multicast service designed to provide IPTV is not scheduled for release on the NBN until mid-2012, Internode […]
Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan’s largest telecom operator, has chosen Ericsson to deploy and integrate a new IPTV platform that will deliver multi-screen interactive multimedia services to more than 900,000 subscribers. The new platform will replace Chunghwa’s existing IPTV system and respond to a growing demand from consumers for content anywhere, any time on a wide range […]
Adobe Systems has announced at the IBC that Adobe Pass service has gained substantial traction since it launched in March 2011. Adobe Pass makes it easy for TV programmers and media companies to validate that customers are entitled to view online content based on their pay TV subscription package. With Adobe Pass, pay TV subscribers […]
TV Genius, part of Red Bee Media, has formed a partnership with GfK Media, a market research agency, to further enhance the relevance of its Content Discovery Platform. The partnership combines TV Genius’ search and recommendation solution for TV content with GfK Media’s audience research expertise to provide operators and content owners from around the […]