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Connected TV Summit kicks off with Pay TV versus CE debate
Videonet will be reporting in full from Connected TV Summit starting next week but here are a few highlights from the first session of Day One, when the audience was given opposing views about whether operators or device makers will win in the connected era....
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The two U.S. platform operators agree that there is no philosophical objection to getting rid of STBs, even for the primary television, but there is a long list of caveats including channel change times, consistent UIs and reliability.…
The independent Indian MSO, Bhagyanagar Digital Services, has selected Conax to deliver its consortium of cable TV operators with a content security solution for enabling smooth digital migration. The system makes it easy for the cable operators to…
In new research, Parks Associates has revealed that 26% of U.S. broadband households own a smart TV and 63% of Smart TV owners connect the set to the Internet. Of those who are online, 79% of Smart TV…
Device manufacturer Harvard has shipped its View21 and Goodmans set-top boxes throughout the UK powered by Espial STB client and multiscreen software solutions. The new Freeview boxes support iOS companion apps. “We believe that today’s TV viewers are…
Farncombe and Inview are working together to offer operators in Latin America a cost-effective way to launch OTT services in the region. Through the collaboration, named T4, Farncombe is providing its system integration capabilities alongside Inview’s OTT platform…
Agama Technologies has announced a new DVB-C monitoring probe with what it claims is unmatched density and parallel capacity. The new space and cost-efficient product range will mean no more ‘blind spots’ for cable operators, the company says,…
TalkTalk will introduce a non-DVR YouView set-top box in the autumn. The company said today it will create a ‘value-for-money’ Essentials TV product with a smaller, lower-cost YouView set-top box that will be available to all 4 million…
Stofa, Denmark’s second largest cable TV operator, has signed a multi-year service and maintenance contract for SeaChange Adrenalin VOD services. Stofa has been a customer of SeaChange since 2007 and this new contract extends their longstanding relationship. “With…
TalkTalk signed up 150,000 new subscribers to its YouView service in the first three months of this year and says this makes TalkTalk TV the UK’s fastest-growing new TV service. At the end of March the company had…
Mike Gannon, EMEA Home Product Architect at Motorola Mobility, reckons the next big generational change in cable set-top boxes will combine ‘IP Everywhere’ capabilities, DOCSIS 3.1 and HEVC decoding and will be justified on the basis of bandwidth…
In a dramatic development for UK Pay TV, BT (the incumbent telco and IPTV provider) is going to allow its broadband customers to enjoy its new BT Sport channels free. The new channels (BT Sport 1, BT Sport…
Toshiba Corporation is launching a range of DTVs (digital TVs) that are ‘Certified for DivX Plus Streaming’. This will help increase the reach of Rovi’s adaptive streaming format and enable Toshiba DTVs to support high-quality entertainment services from…
Rovi-enabled digital video entertainment storefronts will soon be pairing their movie and TV show libraries with DTS-HD surround sound. Samsung’s 2013 connected TVs and Blu-ray players will be the first products to benefit from streaming DTS-HD encoded content.…
Advertising expenditure in the UK reached £17,172 million in 2012, up 2.3% on 2011 according to figures released this week in the AA/Warc Expenditure Report (AA is the Advertising Association). The last time advertising spend exceeded £17bn was…
D-Smart, Turkey’s fast growing satellite TV platform, has deployed Broadpeak’s BkS400 video servers to manage its OTT streaming services. Leveraging HTTP adaptive streaming technology and high streaming capacity, servers enable D-Smart to stream live and VOD services to…
BT is among the telcos that envisions a network DVR future, subject to the easing of rights restrictions and customer acceptance. Speaking at the DTG Summit yesterday, Alex Green, Director of TV at BT Vision (the IPTV service…
Freesat added 150,000 homes in the last 12 months, taking its total to 1.7 million homes. This accounts for 6% of UK households but does make the free-to-air satellite service the fastest growing established TV platform in the…
The number of Pay TV subscribers in North America will continue to increase – albeit at a slow rate. However, Pay TV penetration will remain flat, a new report from Digital TV Research states. “Pay TV penetration has…
Telenet, Virgin Media, Com Hem, Eircom and SeaChange International will be speaking at a Connected TV Summit Breakfast Briefing that looks at how Pay TV multiscreen can be monetized. The session will look at the revenue potential if…
Harmonic has introduced predefined transcoding presets for its ProMedia Carbon file-based transcoder that efficiently transform video and audio content into media formats optimized for Netflix, the world’s largest Internet television network. “With its ability to store and recall…
Pace has selected Myriad’s Java technology for use in their RDK compliant set-top boxes. The JVM is a key component of the Comcast Reference Design Kit (RDK), a pre-integrated software bundle for set-top boxes, multi-tuner video gateways and…
Social TV analytics company, SecondSync, has integrated overnight TV ratings from BARB (the industry standard audience measurement service) into its platform, meaning broadcasters, programme-makers and advertisers can see the minute-by-minute relationship between social TV activity and audiences, and…
Moldtelecom, the primary telco provider in Moldova, is deploying Entone’s Kamai 500 Hybrid Media Player to deliver advanced video services. Moldtelecom provides a full range of next-generation TV, high-speed broadband and telephony services to Moldova, a nation of…
Digital TV Labs, which provides specialised digital media conformance tools, test services and professional services, is now a DLNA accredited Independent Certification Vendor (ICV) for products wishing to comply with the increasingly popular home networking standard. Keith Potter,…
Parks Associates predicts that ad-supported apps will account for 88% of all apps downloaded in the U.S. by 2016, accounting for 26% of all app revenues. “U.S. revenues for the smartphone and tablet in-app advertising market will reach…
Jeff Bewkes, Chairman and CEO at Time Warner, has been outlining how hard he thinks it will be for Netflix to compete as a premium programmer, making original content, even if it can keep growing. Netflix now has…
La3, the Italian social media channel broadcast on Sky (channel 143) and free-to-air DTT (channel 134), tablets, smartphones and the Internet, has selected Civolution and Vetrya to enhance its HyperSync application. The Civolution-Vetrya partnership enables La3 to drive…
Starting on April 29, Swisscom TV plus customers will be able to access and watch recorded TV programmes while abroad using their smartphones, tablets, laptops and PCs. Users can now access their recordings from the last 30 days…
The shortlists for the Connected TV Awards 2013 have just been announced and feature stand-out services and technologies that impressed a panel of judges with extensive experience across the TV landscape. Two entries in each category will receive…
Alticast, provider of interactive TV open standard software solutions has partnered with set-top-box provider INTEK Digital to develop an all-IP set-top box specifically for OTT. There is an unnamed customer already – a VOD service provider in Eastern…
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