Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from its Broadcast and Streaming Video Equipment and Pay-TV Subscribers report, which tracks pay-TV subscribers and video equipment sold to telco IPTV, cable, and satellite providers. “With competition and content heating up, pay-TV providers are transitioning their traditional, broadcast-focused video processing environments to ones that can ingest, process, […]
Australian media company Prime has selected Ericsson’s latest video processing platform to deliver new channels and improved efficiency. Prime is the first publicly announced customer in the Asia Pacific region to deploy Ericsson’s AVP 4000 compression platform, which is powered by the company’s first in-house programmable video processing chip. The announcement builds upon Ericsson’s presence […]
nideo has launched its online video platform to cater specifically for businesses. Open to any company of any size producing video content – micro/small to mid-sized businesses, larger corporations, or digital producers like marketing and advertising agencies – nideo offers a place to host and share videos with an online audience, a private solution for […]
Agama Technologies, the video service quality assurance expert and Zenterio, the independent operating system developer for TV client devices, has announced a technology partnership to deliver a turnkey solution for efficient last-mile and in-home video service quality assurance to joint TV operator customers worldwide. The partnership has already resulted in a new contract with a […]
Associated Press journalists on every continent can now stream real-time video content back to its London production hub in full, broadcast-quality high definition. The international news agency has confirmed an expanded deal with portable live video-over-cellular specialists LiveU to deploy a range of professional broadcast technology devices globally. The agreement builds on AP’s strategy of […]
Rovi Corporation, driving digital entertainment innovation, has announced that Freescale Semiconductor is releasing an Android chipset certified for DivX Plus Streaming. The Freescale i.MX 6Quad applications processor with Android Integrated Circuit (IC) is designed for use in a broad range of consumer electronics (CE) products running the Android operating system and provides a path for […]
NDN, the Digital Media Exchange that powers the profitable newsroom, has announced the launch of Studio, a responsive video platform that enables users to discover, consume and share high-quality video content across all devices. New York Daily News is one of the first publishers to implement NDN’s partner-branded video portal to greatly extend its consumer […]
Pixsan Digital Software, a UK based specialist digital TV software development Company, has licensed the Reference Development Kit (RDK) from Comcast. Pixsan will offer outsourced professional services to Operators, OEMs and ODMs and semiconductor vendors who wish to benefit from RDK’s fast time to market software and hardware benefits. The RDK is a pre-integrated software […]
Netflix engineers have revealed that they have been working with Microsoft to implement HTML5 video. They said in a blog: “We’ve previously discussed our plans to use HTML5 video with the proposed “Premium Video Extensions” in any browser which implements them. These extensions are the future of premium video on the web, since they allow […]
Q1 data from Synergy Research Group shows that Cisco is now the leader in four of the five main video infrastructure market segments, having overtaken IBM in the media data center segment during the quarter. In the fifth segment of video client (set-top boxes, residential gateways and associated software/middleware), Cisco did in fact pass Motorola […]