The global consulting firm is producing a turnkey solution: OTT TV, aimed at letting service providers, content companies or retailers deliver both linear and on-demand content to TV sets and a range of other platforms including PCs, mobile, gaming consoles and broadband-connected TVs. Unveiled at NAB, the Accenture Over-The-Top TV solution is “based on a […]

Motorola Solutions and Huawei Technologies have entered into an agreement to settle all pending litigation between them on breach of trade secrets. Motorola Solutions has agreed to withdraw its claims and dismiss, with prejudice, Huawei as a defendant in the Motorola v. Lemko litigation pending in the Chicago court. For its part, Huawei has agreed […]

Media Excel, a provider of live and file based encoding and n-Screen adaptive bitrate transcoding, and Verimatrix, have formed a partnership that enables digital TV service operators to securely deploy high quality video over any IP network to multiple screens – TVs, PCs, mobile devices and beyond. A combination of the Verimatrix VCAS for Internet […]

Lyfe Communications, a technology expert in the development of next generation media services, has completed software development of a virtual Set Top Box (vSTB), and are creating a program to deploy that technology in trials with partner operators. Greg Smith, CEO of Lyfe Communications commented: “We have blended industry accepted conditional access security with standard […]

Breeze Technologies, the MPEG and IPTV solutions developer, represented exclusively by Imago in Europe, has formed a new partnership with French IPTV middleware provider Vianeos, which will allow the two companies to deliver an ‘IPTV in a box’ solution. The agreement was finalised at last month’s IP&TV World Forum and brings together Breeze Technologies’ TVIUM […]

Envivio, provider of live and on-demand multi-screen IP video processing and delivery solutions, has announced that its 4Caster C4 multi-profile video encoders are delivering the content driving the new “DIGITAL+ a la carta” and “DIGITAL+ Videoclub” OTT VOD and linear TV service from Prisa TV, the leading pay-TV operator in Spain. DIGITAL+ a la carta […]

Azuki Systems, a specialist in the delivery of video to any device over any network at Internet scale, has announced the availability of Azuki Media Everywhere, a solution that enables service providers to deliver on the promise of TV Everywhere. Azuki Media Everywhere allows cable operators to expand their reach and stream premium video across […]

The next iteration of Android, ‘Ice Cream’, will bring Google TV and smartphones and tablets onto one Android platform, according to reports. The addition of Android’s host of apps to the TV platform will be a huge boost, and something that no other television service can yet offer.

Marketers are increasingly spending time, money and creativity to reach their audiences in non-traditional ways.  A 24/7 Wall St./Harris Poll on Social Media and Television has found that many Americans are participating in this type of interactions.  Among online US adults, two in five say they have gone online or utilised social media to comment, […]

Verimatrix has announced an extended partnership with SMiT that pairs ViewRight cardless security with an advanced CI+ CAM design. The combination of Verimatrix security and the SMiT CI+ CAM platform enables a new range of advance revenue security solutions for the wide range of connected TV and other devices that support this new expansion standard. […]