Balan Nair, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Liberty Global, has been named co-chair of the cable industry’s landmark “Energy 2020” plan, the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE). Nair will work directly with John Schanz, Chief Network Officer and Executive Vice President of Comcast Cable, to extend to the global market the […]
Elemental Technologies, a supplier of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, today announced it will showcase its full product suite on booth B34 at Convergence India. The show takes place January 21-23 at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi. Elemental has a rapidly growing customer base in India, and serves more than 600 leading media […]
THEMA and CANALSAT are happy to announce their agreement to broadcast the African fiction TV channel NOLLYWOOD TV, for the first time on satellite. NOLLYWOOD TV will be broadcast on CANALSAT, channel 39, via satellite, ADSL and on the web. All CANALSAT subscribers will be able to discover the channel until 31 March. It will […]
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, will be keynoting the inaugural Apps World Germany event in Berlin this April. He will be joined by founder of Lionhead Studios; Peter Molyneux OBE and co-founder of Games Workshop; Ian Livingstone. The event taking place at CityCube, Berlin on April 22-23 is set to attract over 6,000 attendees over the […]
The main goal of EUMSSI (Event Understanding through Multimodal Stream Interpretation) is to develop technologies for identifying and aggregating data presented as unstructured information in sources of very different nature (video, image, audio, speech, text and social context), including both online (e.g., YouTube) and traditional media (e.g. audio visual repositories), and dealing with information of […]
Increasing use of Wi-Fi technology, 4G/LTE mobile broadband and growing use of different wireless devices can create problems for TV signal reception. The risk of interference can be minimized by changing existing cabling to a triple-shielded Class A+ cable and a matching connector. TRIAX has developed a new state-of-the-art push-on IEC connector, which requires no […]
PeerTV, the OTT technology solutions provider, has announced that following the successful delivery of the first batch of its eTV set top box order to Polsky.TV, the company has now added an additional order totalling $490,000. PeerTV will supply Polsky.TV with its next generation Android STB which uses H265 HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) technology […]
At CES 2015 this week, Cisco and Sky, Europe’s leading entertainment company with more than 20 million customers, are showcasing the success of their advanced approach to addressable TV advertising. Sky AdSmart enables advertisers to target different ads to different households watching the same live linear TV program based on over 150 different demographic criteria. […]
The British entertainment industry’s body for developing best practice in Ultra HD has congratulated the US entertainment and technology industry on the formation of the UHD Alliance. The UK UHD Forum has brought together broadcasters, TV platforms, TV manufacturers and other stakeholders since 2013 as part of the DTG. Richard Lindsay-Davies, CEO of the DTG, […]
Streaming media pioneer RealNetworks will provide a preview of RMHD (RealMedia High Definition), featured its new generation of high-definition (HD) codec technology, at the forthcoming 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). This new product is very much more than just a mere upgrade of its current RMVB technology; rather, it is positioned to be a revolutionary […]