Advanced Television

Middleware

TV blue button purchases

Further to the announcement that Ofcom is set to give final approval to product placement to come into force in February 2011, Visionradio is preparing to revisit its ‘easy2 TV’ Interactive Advertising system developed initially as a concept in 2008. “TV is one of the best mediums for creating a desire for a product or […]

December 14, 2010

Civolution’s NexGuard wins TV Innovation 2010 Award for Content Protection

Civolution, the leading provider of technology and solutions for identifying, managing, and monetising media content, announces that it has won the Content Protection award at this year’s TV Innovation Awards. The award, for the company’s NexGuard – PayTV & Online watermarking-based application, was presented at the awards reception on December 7th as part of the […]

December 14, 2010

Hannu Pro to distribute Bridge Technologies monitoring solutions in Baltic States

Bridge Technologies has announced a partnership with lBaltic-states system integrator Hannu Pro. Based in Riga, Latvia, Hannu Pro represents more than 50 global broadcast equipment and software manufacturers, and the company’s portfolio now includes the VideoBRIDGE line of digital media monitoring products. VideoBRIDGE is the most comprehensive advanced headend-to-set-top-box monitoring solution available to broadcasters, telcos, […]

December 14, 2010

XIT deploys RGB Networks

RGB Networks, a specialist in network video processing, has confirmed that its Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG) has been deployed by XIT Communications, a rural telecommunications cooperative that serves six counties in Northwest Texas, to transcode the programming it receives in the MPEG-2 format into MPEG-2/H.264 that its network can deliver to subscribers. The VMG is […]

December 8, 2010

Tata Sky licenses StormTest

S3 Group has revealed Indian satellite TV provider, Tata Sky, has licensed its StormTest Development Centre solution for automated STB validation testing. Tata Sky is a joint venture between the TataGroup and Star. The Tata Group is one of India’s largest business conglomerates with operations in more than 80 countries across six continents and exporting […]

December 7, 2010

Altech Multimedia partners with Wyplay for next generation TV-centric software solutions

Wyplay, a global player in innovative TV-centric Operator software solutions, and Altech Multimedia, the international developer of interactive software solutions and digital Set-top Boxes (STBs), have unveilled their formal collaboration to integrate Wyplay’s STB Client software. Wyplay’s software solutions sit at the very heart of the connected home and power the top brand names in […]

December 6, 2010

Vietnam Cable chooses Conax

Conax has entered a contract with state owned Vietnam Cable Television. VCTV is a MSO with 17 Vietnam cable operators and over a half million analogue subscribers. Conax will deliver a new content protection solution to VCTV’s subsidiary VTV, the second largest cable operator in Vietnam, including Conax core conditional access technology, Conax Chipset Pairing […]

December 3, 2010

blinkx App on Samsung’s Galaxy Tab

blinkx has confirmed that Samsung Electronics has selected blinkx for inclusion on its first tablet device, the Galaxy Tab, powered by the Android Operating System 2.2. Under the terms of the agreement, blinkx’s video app will be promoted through SamsungApps on Samsung’s Galaxy Tab. The blinkx Beat for Android devices debuted on Samsung Galaxy S […]

December 2, 2010

Vietnam Cable Television opts for new content protection solution from Conax

Conax, a provider of security solutions for digital content distribution, has entered a contract with state owned Vietnam Cable Television. VCTV is a MSO with 17 Vietnam cable operators and over a half million analogue subscribers. Conax will deliver a new content protection solution to VCTV’s subsidiary VTV, the second largest cable operator in Vietnam, […]

December 2, 2010

Telegent ships 100m mobile TV chips

Telegent Systems, the company that makes television mobile, has achieved a key industry milestone with the shipment of its 100 millionth mobile TV receiver last month.  Handsets incorporating Telegent’s solutions, which enable reception of live, free-to-air broadcast TV in mobile devices, have been widely adopted by consumers in emerging markets around the world, including Southeast […]

December 1, 2010