Advanced Television

Middleware

Operax and Orca bring QoS to IPTV

Operax, vendor of dynamic resource and admission Control solutions for IP service quality, and Orca Interactive, provider of IPTV middleware and applications, have combined for a solution allowing operators to manage their service expansion while ensuring Quality of Service (QoS) for advanced video and IPTV services. The new solution will enable operators to quickly deploy […]

October 10, 2007

Major League Baseball signs with Teletrax

Major League Baseball has signed an agreement with Teletrax to track the use of its game broadcast footage more effectively. It provides a service that digitally watermarks broadcasts, allowing the US sports league to track who is watching what portion of any game, for how long and what they are viewing. It can also detail […]

October 3, 2007

Smart Com deploys Verimatrix for T-2 IPTV

Content security specialists Verimatrix and Smart Com, European IPTV middleware vendor have confirmed the successful deployment of Verimatrix's Video Content Authority System (VCAS) for T-2's IPTV deployment. T-2 is the number one alternative IPTV operator in Slovenia that offers a selection of movies, series and other video content, available for on-demand viewing.

October 2, 2007

Tilgin IPTV solutions for Ericsson

Tilgin, provider of customer premises equipment (CPE) for advanced triple play and IMS-based services, has agreed with Ericsson to provide pre-integrated IPTV set-top boxes. The agreement will see Tilgin IPTV set-top boxes being pre-integrated into Ericsson’s IPTV end-to-end solutions. Tilgin will supply IPTV set-top box solutions from the Mood 300 and Mood 400 series that […]

September 28, 2007

Verimatrix for Qatar IPTV service

Verimatrix is providing the security solution for the world's first fully integrated IPTV triple-play deployment in Qatar. This new service from Qtel offers voice, broadband Internet and MPEG4-AVC encoded IPTV over its upgraded infrastructure to subscribers across the state of Qatar. Verimatrix's Video Content Authority System (VCAS) will protect MPEG4-AVC data streams through advanced encryption […]

September 25, 2007

Widevine CableCard

Widevine Technologies has launched the Widevine CableCard. The QAM and IP-based hardware solution enables multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) to provide two-way downloadable conditional access solution for protecting content delivery to any device with a CableCard slot.

September 24, 2007

Scaberia partnership with 3Vision and Concurrent

Scaberia, a Norway-based technology and innovations consulting company, is partnering with Concurrent Computer Corporation and 3Vision to offer creative technology and content solutions for on-demand in Europe. Concurrent, a developer of on-demand technology, and 3Vision, the UK-based content strategy and acquisition specialists, will collaborate with Scaberia on joint projects and on-demand solutions for clients across […]

September 19, 2007

Conax tests water with Thomson's NexGuard

From Colin Mann in Amsterdam Digital TV conditional access solutions supplier Conax is to integrate Thomson's watermarking solution, NexGuard, into its security products. Thomson's NexGuard solution can watermark all forms of broadcast content delivered via IPTV, satellite, cable or terrestrial broadcast and viewed with a digital set-top box. “Thomson strongly believes in the integration of […]

September 11, 2007

Irdeto secures French DTT

From Colin Mann in Amsterdam Digital TV content security specialist Irdeto has clinched a deal with Neotion TNT France (NTF) to provide its Irdeto Digital TV conditional access (CA) solution for NTF’s new digital terrestrial television (DTT) pay-TV service in France. NTF will license the IrdetoDigital TV solution and integrate it in digital TV sets […]

September 11, 2007

Irdeto, Amino and Anevia hatch DVB over IP solution

From Colin Mann in Amsterdam Irdeto, provider of content security for digital TV, IPTV and mobile networks; together with Amino, IPTV platform supplier, and Anevia, supplier of IPTV and VOD servers have revealed a joint IPTV solution that enables telcos to provide existing DVB services to their customers via their IP networks. In addition, CATV […]

September 10, 2007