Semiconductor and IP products specialist Rambus has confirmed that DishTV India has selected the CryptoMedia Security Platform for use in its pay-TV satellite system. The platform, which includes a hardware root-of-trust embedded in the set-top box chipset, ensures secure distribution of premium content for cable and satellite operators while eliminating the need for a smart […]
The QYOU, a curator of Internet video for the TV Everywhere market, has formed a partnership with TotalPlay, a Mexican-based Triple Play provider, to bring The QYOU’s curated short-form content to subscribers across Mexico. TotalPlay will air The QYOU’s linear channel on its IPTV service. The deal marks The QYOU’s entry into the Latin American […]
Findings from market and consumer information firm GfK show that US TV households are embracing alternatives to cable and satellite reception. Levels of broadcast-only reception and Internet-only video subscriptions have both risen over the past year, with fully one-quarter (25 per cent) of all US TV households now going without cable and satellite reception. The […]
Figures released by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission covering statistical and financial information on cable, IPTV and satellite companies for the year ending on August 31st 2015 reveal a slight decline in revenues of C$11.8 million (€8.2m/0.1 per cent) to C$8.9 billion, while expenses increased by 1.3 per cent to C$7.2 billion. As a […]
ADB, a provider of solutions and services for media convergence, announced that visitors to IBC 2016 will have the opportunity to see the public debut of its next-generation, end-to-end personal TV software platform, graphyne2. The launch extends ADB’s portfolio of Connected Solutions with a next-generation TV software platform that drives fast and risk free deployment […]
Cubiware, a Warsaw, Poland based subsidiary of TiVo, has announced its continued expansion in Asia with a new partnership with MStar Semiconductor, a semiconductor company for display and digital home solutions. The collaboration will integrate MStar’s Hybrid STB chipset solution with the full-featured CubiTV Hybrid Middleware. Using MStar’s Full HD MPEG-4/MPEG-2/HEVC STB chipset platform with […]
Nevion, a provider of virtual media production infrastructure, has assisted the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Belgian public broadcasting company VRT in delivering the first live on-air broadcast using the VRT Sandbox LiveIP Studio. The broadcast took place on June 20th and was part of programming for Ketnet, VRT’s children’s channel. Nevion’s software defined network […]
As the subscriber base of SVoD services continues to grow (9 million subscriptions in the UK, 91 million subscriptions in the US), social video platform YouTube still enjoys the biggest share of viewers in the UK, whilst subscription service Netflix takes the top slot in the US. Across the 10 countries in the research, 46 […]
According to a research study released by Technavio, the global cloud direct video recorder (DVR) market is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 30 per cent until 2020. “With the growing prominence of IPTV, an increasing number of households will
Edgeware has confirmed support for the Common Media Application Format (CMAF), a media streaming format standardisation effort jointly led by Microsoft and Apple to streamline Internet video delivery. MPEG recently released a statement from its 115th meeting, that it “has reached the first milestone for the CMAF specification.” CMAF defines a common container format for segmented media […]