Advanced Television

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Tata Elxsi and Algotochip partner to provide rapid SoC solutions and services targeted at OEMs and custom chip makers

Tata Elxsi, a product design company and Algotochip, the company that turns behavioral C Code into Device, have announced their partnership to provide rapid SoC solutions and services targeted at OEMs and custom chip makers. The companies’ first collaboration is to develop digital chips and IP blocks that can support next-generation video services embedded with […]

October 30, 2013

Telstra, Ericsson conduct LTE broadcast on live network

Australian telco Telstra has completed what it claims is the world’s first LTE Broadcast session on a commercial LTE network. Ericsson’s LTE Broadcast Solution was successfully activated and tested on Telstra’s live network with the transmission of concurrent video feeds and large files to enabled devices. During the demonstration, the devices received different video feeds, […]

October 28, 2013

Amedia signs Norigin Media for trascoding

The Amedia Group (previously Apressen) has contracted with Norigin Media to provide TV head-end services via the recently launched Live Hosted Headend product. All of Amedia´s local media stations and newspaper companies will use the platform to ingest and transcode live feeds including news, sports and events. The Live Hosted product offers flexible time-based capture […]

October 22, 2013

Elemental delivers Chilean football

Elemental Technologies, a supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, has revealed that Canal del Fútbol (CDF), the owner of the Chilean league rights, is using Elemental Live video processing systems for its Estadio CDF subscription VoD online streaming platform. The deployment is supported by Elemental partner Mediastream in Latin America. Estadio CDF does […]

October 21, 2013

Rovi joins AT&T video licensing programme

AT&T has signed an agreement that sees Rovi Corporation become the newest member of AT&T’s global MPEG-4 video licensing programme. Through the licensing agreement, Rovi will continue incorporating MPEG-4 video compression software into its technology offerings for its customers and consumer end-users. MPEG-4 video compression serves as the industry standard for the delivery of video […]

October 16, 2013

Arris, Sling Media partner for networks

Arris and Sling Media have entered into an agreement to make Arris the exclusive worldwide distributor of Sling technology to cable, telco and wireless service providers worldwide. Under the agreement, Arris will be the sole provider of Sling technology for both video gateways and standalone devices intended for such service providers. This marks the latest development in […]

October 16, 2013

Elemental powers Skymedia OTT

Elemental Technologies, a supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, as revealed that its video processing systems have been selected by Skymedia, the leading broadband service provider in Mongolia, to power OTT and advanced television services nationwide. Skymedia is using Elemental Live systems to process content for delivery over the operator’s broadband and mobile […]

October 16, 2013

Ooyala powers BFI Player

Ooyala, a specialist in multi-screen video streaming and analytics, is powering the BFI (British Film Institute) online video player, enabling the British public to access hundreds of hours of film content and watch it on the BFI Player, its new VoD service. The BFI Player launched in conjunction with the opening of the 57th BFI […]

October 15, 2013

Elemental showcases pioneering advancements for multiscreen video at SCTE

Elemental Technologies, the supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, has announced its plans to showcase advances critical for the cable industry to efficiently distribute multiscreen video, including live HEVC 4K video processing and low bitrate MPEG-2 encoding, at the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo exhibition in Atlanta, Georgia, October 22 – 24. 4K Ultra HD […]

October 10, 2013

Doğuş launches OTT service with Harmonic

Harmonic, the specialist in video delivery infrastructure, has announced that Doğuş Media Group (DMG) has chosen a comprehensive multiscreen solution from Harmonic to power TVYO, its new OTT platform. Harmonic’s ProMedia suite of multiscreen production and preparation applications, WFS file-based workflow engine, and MediaGrid shared storage systems provide TVYO with the performance, reliability, and scalability […]

October 2, 2013