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Ericsson: Delivering the future of TV Anywhere at NAB 2014

Ericsson will demonstrate at NAB Show 2014, April 5th-10th April, Las Vegas (booth #SU721) how it is making TV Anywhere a reality with its unique blend of innovative solutions, services and deep industry knowledge and vision. The company will highlight how it is enabling the creation of compelling TV Anywhere experiences through the delivery of […]

April 3, 2014

New Grass Valley shows off IP expertise at NAB 2014

Grass Valley will further expand its already extensive IP portfolio with the launch of the IRG-3401 IP Gateway module and Kaleido-IP X310 multiviewer at NAB 2014. These join the previously announced NVISION 8500 IP Gateway as new IP solutions for NAB. Marco Lopez, president of Grass Valley says, “Broadcasters who want to make the transition […]

April 3, 2014

NAB 2014 – Rohde & Schwarz DVS and Sony present XAVC/XDCAM end-to-end workflow

Rohde & Schwarz DVS is supporting the XAVC format and workflow. At NAB 2014, VENICE, the ingest and production server for studio environments from Rohde & Schwarz DVS, will be demonstrated at the Sony booth. The Sony booth C11001 will give the NAB’s attendees a compelling view of an innovative and advanced XAVC/XDCAM end-to-end workflow. […]

April 2, 2014

Skyline Communications opens new office for the Americas

Skyline Communications, global leader in end-to-end multi-vendor network management solutions for the satellite, broadcast, IPTV and HFC broadband industries, announces a new office in Miami, Florida to spearhead its fast-growing business in the Americas. In order to accelerate the operation and to hit the ground running, Skyline has reached an agreement to acquire the DataMiner-related […]

April 2, 2014

Tata Elxsi HEVC Ultra HD Decoder compliance with Harmonic encoding technology

In a bid to provide a complete solution for customers deploying HEVC Ultra HD solutions, Tata Elxsi has announced the successful interoperability of their HEVC decoder with streams encoded using Harmonic encoding technology. Tata Elxsi’s licensable Ultra HD HEVC decoders are available on multiple platforms. This includes Intel x86 processors and multicore ARM platforms (Smartphones/tablets) […]

April 2, 2014

Inverto introduces Unicable II

Inverto, developer and marketer of broadcast reception and streaming products has announced the availability of Unicable II, a new Unicable multi-switch and Low Noise Block (LNB) products, with up to 24 User Bands. The products conform to CENELEC standards EN50494 and EN50607, supported by user-defined functions that are configurable to operators. “We believe that multimedia […]

April 2, 2014

SKY Italia selects Witbe monitoring solution

Witbe, the next generation quality monitoring company, has announced that Sky Italia has selected their Assets Publication Monitoring solution to secure their multi-screen VoD revenues To meet their customers’ expectations for daily new VoD and catch-up contents to be read on their Tablets, PC, SmartTVs or STBs, content providers have to publish hundreds of new […]

April 1, 2014

Shine International appoints Ball to SVP, Digital Business Development

Shine International, the sales and distribution arm of Shine Group, today announced the appointment of Kerry Ball to the newly created position of SVP, Digital Business Development. In the new role Ball will lead the digital sales strategy globally and manage day-to-day sales to digital and home entertainment platforms for Shine International represented properties. Starting […]

April 1, 2014

Smith named Director of MIPDoc MIPFormats MIPJunior

Reed MIDEM has announced thatLucy Smith, Director of Conferences for Reed MIDEM’s Television Division, is named Director of MIPDoc, MIPFormats and MIPJunior. In her new role, Smith will continue to manage all MIPTV and MIPCOM-related conferences in addition to developing MIPDoc, MIPJunior and MIPFormats. “Over the past seven years, Lucy has done an outstanding job […]

April 1, 2014

Akamai accelerates content availability with Aspera

Akamai Technologies, a provider of cloud services for delivering, optimising and securing online content and business applications, and Aspera, an IBM company and creators of next-generation software technologies that move the world’s large data at maximum speed, have announced a new high-speed option for Akamai customers to accelerate upload and distribution of rich media content […]

April 1, 2014