Digital entertainment solutions specialist Rovi has updated Rovi Entertainment Store, the company’s end-to-end, white-label solution for over-the-top storefront creation and management that is currently supporting almost a dozen third-party services on an expansive multi-manufacturer ecosystem of connected devices. This new version will offer software development kits (SDKs) to streamline customer storefront launches, ground-breaking features, including […]

Arqiva has secured a further contract to deliver Freesat’s Electronic Programme Guide. Dual and redundant multiplexing, uplink and satellite capacity on Eurobird 1 will ensure the constant availability of the essential EPG data to over two million Freesat receivers across the UK. Arqiva has also announced that it has won the contract to distribute the […]

In a move that recognises the growing importance of content discovery and navigation in the multiscreen entertainment age, Motorola Mobility has acquired  SetJam, a television and movie directory. “Motorola and SetJam share the vision of making content delivery, discovery, and consumption seamless across any screen, and as a world leader in video technology, Motorola will […]

This not a story about a nervous and excessively prudish maiden. It is about the mildly amusing consequences of trying to make your software just a little bit too clever for its own good, and aiming to be the blandest on the block. Virgin Media has, along with most media outlets, decided to try and […]

Panasonic, Samsung, SanDisk Sony and Toshiba have reached an agreement in principle to collaborate on a new content protection technology for flash memory cards such as SD Cards and various storage devices. Under the “Next Generation Secure Memory Initiative”. The five companies will start preparing for licensing and promotion of HD-capable security for SD Cards […]

Accedo, an enabler of Smart TV and IPTV applications, has announced a key partnership with Irdeto, a global software security and media technology company, to create next-generation TV Everywhere services. During CES the two companies will showcase Irdeto’s newly-launched TV Services platform and suite of reference applications that have been created by Accedo. Through this […]

VidScale, a provider of carrier-class content delivery network (CDN) services, federated transparent caching and bandwidth optimisation for the cable, mobile and ISP markets, has been selected and deployed by Avail-TVN, the digital media services company, to provide key functionality for the company’s AnyView multiplatform, multiscreen video service. AnyView will extend and enhance the traditional VoD […]

An overzealous profanity checker has been blamed for blanking out inoffensive names of television shows from Never Mind The Buzzcocks to a football match involving Arsenal. The system took offence at Will Smith’s 12A-rated film Hancock, calling it Hanc**k, while football fans were invited to watch a match involving A***nal. The automatic checker, which scans […]