Alticast, an end-to-end media solutions provider, has formed a partnership with LowaSIS, a commercial hardware provider at the forefront of bringing ATSC 3.0 to fruition. In an agreement aimed at helping broadcast customers seamlessly make the transition to ATSC 3.0, Alticast’s modular, client-side software stack will be pre-integrated onto LowaSIS’s dongles, set-top-boxes and home-gateways. Alticast […]
Research from Parks Associates finds 70 per cent of US broadband households with a major video service consider its user interface to be good, with 48 per cent rating it “very good,” and these scores impact their willingness to recommend the service to others. Analysis of
Research from Amdocs Media which explores the media consumption preferences of UK consumers suggests that the television is the most popular means of accessing their media subscription services (video, music and gaming). Fifty per cent of consumers surveyed selected
TiVo has announced that Liberty Latin America, a telco operating in over 20 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean, has selected TiVo’s Next-Gen Platform to bring cutting-edge innovations to its customers in Puerto Rico. Over time, Liberty Latin America also plans to launch TiVo’s Next-Gen Platform in other markets across Latin America. TiVo’s Next-Gen […]
Entertainment technology and audience insights specialist TiVo has confirmed that multiplay operator Vodafone deploying TiVo’s Personalized Content Discovery (PCD) to deliver engaging, highly-relevant entertainment experiences to its subscribers. Vodafone offers broadband, TV, mobile and telephone services to 640 million customers in 24 countries.. Vodafone is introducing PCD as part of the new Vodafone TV service […]
Leveraging ActiveVideo’s CloudTV virtualisation platform, Charter Communications next-generation Spectrum Guide is available on millions of set-tops, as deployment continues to nearly all new Spectrum TV subscribers in the US. The on-screen guide features enhanced customisations and functionality, video previews, engaging graphics and more intuitive navigation. The solution provides a user experience that aims to make […]
Media and entertainment metadata provider Gracenote, a Nielsen company, is launching a new Video ID Distribution System aimed at enabling creators and owners of media programming to distribute more easily their movies, TV shows, short-form videos and other related content to global OTT services, smart device manufacturers and cable and satellite TV providers. Using the […]
ThinkAnalyticstoday has announced that Deutsche Telekom AG is deploying ThinkAnalytics for personalised content discovery on its pay-TV and OTT services in what will be one of Europe’s largest rollouts of advanced search and content discovery platforms. First to go live with the cloud-based service, in July 2019, was Croatia Telecom (Hrvatski Telekom, HT) on its […]
Input device and interaction mechanisms specialist ruwido is expanding into the Asian market via a partnership with Astro, the leading content and consumer company in Malaysia. The cooperation with Astro has seen the first remote release to public beta participants in August 2019, with the latest generation of 4K Ultraboxes (hybrid set-top boxes). The new […]
Huawei has unveiled its own operating system, HarmonyOS, at the Huawei Developer Conference in China. The company said the software is built to support a wide range of devices, starting first with smartwatches, smart displays and smart speakers. It says it is designed to deliver an intelligent experience across all user scenarios. Speaking at the […]