Advanced Television

Middleware

TTNet selects SeaChange for IPTV rollout

Turkish ISP TTNet has selected video equipment developer SeaChange International as systems integrator and a primary technology provider for its IPTV service Tivibu Ev. SeaChange assembled a multinational team of engineers, project managers and technology partners to build advanced television services. SeaChange’s professional services have developed the operational processes and procedure designs to support the […]

May 10, 2011

TV Azteca expands HDTV service with Harmonic

Harmonic has announced that TV Azteca, the second largest broadcaster in Mexico, has deployed Harmonic’s IP-based video processing solutions to facilitate satellite distribution of its expanded HDTV service to hundreds of retransmission sites throughout Mexico and Central America. The new DVB-S2-based distribution system relies on Harmonic’s multifunction compression and stream processing solutions to reduce the […]

May 9, 2011

MPP to monetise woomi on Samsung connected TVs

MPP Global Solutions, a provider of payment services and eCommerce solutions to the media and entertainment endustries, are set to integrate their eCommerce payment services into the woomi platform to monetise the cloud-based video distribution service across multiple devices including Samsung connected TVs and Blu-ray players in the UK, ahead of an international launch in […]

May 6, 2011

Cryptography Research and Athena announce developer ecosystem agreement for differential power analysis countermeasures patents

Cryptography Research and The Athena Group have announced an agreement which will enable Athena to develop Differential Power Analysis (DPA) countermeasures for use by licensees of CRI’s DPA patents. “As part of our focus on delivering high-quality tamper-resistant security cores to serve the needs of ASIC and FPGA customers, Athena is excited to become a […]

May 6, 2011

GMI selects ANT for German HbbTV market

ANT, a provider of software and services for the delivery of digital TV, has announced that Good Mind Industries (GMI) has selected the ANT Galio HbbTV Platform for its new range of STBs. Working closely with German distributor COMAG, the product line is to be targeted at the HbbTV (Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV) retail market […]

May 5, 2011

Motive TV wins Granite test

Motive TV has won a US pilot trial for its ‘television anytime, anywhere’ place and time-shifting technology. San Francisco’s KOFY-TV, owned by Granite Broadcasting, is to test-run the service in order to “identify the most attractive features…for all of Granite’s US markets,” according to a statement. Len Fertig, CEO of Motive Television PLC said: “Motive’s […]

May 4, 2011By Chris Forrester

Verimatrix secures NTV-Plus IPTV

Verimatrix has announced the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) for IPTV  will be deployed on the NTV-PLUS wholesale network to secure video for the “IPTV NTV-Plus” service via local broadband network operators. NTV-Plus, a leading Russian satellite broadcaster covering all of European Russia, Siberia and Ukraine with more than two million subscribers, is adding […]

May 4, 2011

RGB Networks passes $200 million shipment milestone

RGB Networks, the expert in high-capacity multi-screen video delivery solutions, has announced that strong worldwide demand for its TV Everywhere solutions has propelled the company’s lifetime product shipments past $200 million.  The pace of RGB’s growth is accelerating with the company earning its second $100 million in shipments in two years compared to over three […]

May 2, 2011

Logiways selects Access’ HbbTV and DLNA technologies for its hybrid TV solution

Access CO, a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile, beyond-PC and digital TV markets, has announced that following a successful trial, Logiways, the French VOD, conditional access and TV middleware specialist, has selected Access’ solutions including NetFront Browser DTV Profile HbbTV Edition, NetFront Widgets and NetFront Living Connect 2.0 DLNA (Digital Living […]

April 27, 2011

Yahoo buys IntoNow social TV

Yahoo has bought IntoNow, a start-up that enables users to identify and share television programmes with their online friends. IntoNow, which is led by Adam Cahan, a former executive with Google and MTV, works with an app on a user’s phone which scans the audio waves from TV sets and identifies the programmes being aired. […]

April 26, 2011