The demand for pay-TV video encoders is on the rise, with cable, IPTV and satellite companies requiring these products to get consumers the shows they want from content producers to their home set-top boxes. In fact, with the global expansion of pay-TV subscribers and increasing number of channels, cable, IPTV and satellite companies have been […]

Digital experience expert Adobe and global information and measurement company Nielsen have formed a strategic alliance that is expected to deliver the industry’s first comprehensive, cross-platform system for measuring online TV, video and other digital content across the web and apps. The collaboration will integrate Nielsen’s digital audience measurement products, the most trusted ratings system […]

India’s Airtel digital TV, the Direct-To-Home (DTH) service from Bharti Airtel, is teaming with Samsung to launch India’s very first Integrated Digital TV (iDTV). As part of this initiative, Samsung’s range of SmartDirect TVs will come designed with an in-built Airtel digital TV Smart Card which will enable DTH signal reception without the need for […]

In a move to offer premium content to a growing online audience, next generation global content specialist Lionsgate, and Tribeca Enterprises, a diversified global media company which owns and operates the Tribeca Film Festival, have partnered to launch a subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) service. The service, called Tribeca Short List, will encompass a prestigious selection of […]

Hill Holliday, the US marketing agencies, has released the results of research projects conducted to examine shifting attitudes toward television. Despite the proliferation of devices consumers have available to watch television, the television set remains the centre of many people’s living rooms — and other rooms as well. Nearly a third of respondents reported

Following its successful launch Cennarium, the global performing arts streaming service, has secured a deal with Samsung to provide its OTT service to a projected 136 million of the tech giant’s connected devices in Brazil. Cennarium is a performing arts streaming service offering an exclusive selection of live recorded plays, operettas, music and dance from […]

IPTV/OTT software solution provider, Qarva has launched the new product, Qarva Multiscreen with Silknet, Georgia’s largest telecom operator. Qarva and Silknet have a long-standing partnership. 5 years ago Qarva launched the Silknet’s new Interactive TV service, SilkTV. Customers gained the ability to pause Live TV, slow motion from Live TV, rewind back and forward fast […]

Huawei is licensing the Frog by Wyplay open source middleware and intends to collaborate with its ecosystem to create next generation STB software solutions. Frog by Wyplay is the first independent open source software solution for pay-TV operators. This comprehensive offering provides access to the complete source code of Wyplay’s technology, and includes all of […]