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		<title>TalkTalk will introduce non-DVR YouView set-top in autumn</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 10:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Moulding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 TalkTalk customers. The company also plans to offer a wider range of specialist channels including some catering ]]></description>
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		<title>Stofa extends VOD partnership with SeaChange International</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 10:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Moulding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 400,000 subscribers, we need to know that our VOD service is stable and reliable and that we ]]></description>
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		<title>TalkTalk adds 150,000 YouView customers in three months</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 10:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Moulding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 230,000 TV customers. 12,000 new customers are signing up each week, the company reports. Early data reveals ]]></description>
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		<title>Motorola prepares for the all-channel multiscreen line-up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 09:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Moulding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pay TV platforms need complete channel line-ups on multiscreen devices to differentiate themselves from OTT services. Motorola is paving the way, from dense transcoders to ABR clients that are less ‘selfish’.]]></description>
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		<title>Motorola uses cloud UI concept to make entry-level STBs shine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 09:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Moulding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ActiveVideo Networks pioneered the concept of rendering a User Interface in the network. The idea now has the backing of Motorola, whose customers do not want legacy STBs to be completely upstaged by next-generation receivers. ]]></description>
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		<title>ABR streaming needs 5.1 Surround Sound</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 09:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Moulding</dc:creator>
				<NewsCategory><![CDATA[Multi-screen TV]]></NewsCategory>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Pay TV operators want to stream more video to their STBs or into connected TV devices, they need the audio quality to match what you get on broadcast. That means 5.1 and now Dolby Digital Plus.]]></description>
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		<title>Features that will converge in the next generational shift in STBs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 19:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Moulding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 optimisation and customer retention rather than any big, discreet new service proposition. In Europe during the mid-2000s, ]]></description>
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		<title>Freeview HD will thrive in Hybrid Broadcast Broadband era</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 10:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Moulding</dc:creator>
				<NewsCategory><![CDATA[Connected TV]]></NewsCategory>
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		<description><![CDATA[YouView looked like the next-generation of Freeview but the two platforms seem to be taking different paths. Freeview HD offers a separate route into the HBB market for content owners, and Synapse TV can help them deliver services.]]></description>
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		<title>Trend for cloud transcoding gathers pace</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 08:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Moulding</dc:creator>
				<NewsCategory><![CDATA[Multi-screen TV]]></NewsCategory>
		<NewsCategory><![CDATA[News & Analysis]]></NewsCategory>

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		<description><![CDATA[Harmonic has been helping customers cope with sudden increases in their transcoding requirements using cloud services, and went public with the Amazon Web Services offer this spring. ]]></description>
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		<title>Why VOD is such good news for Channel 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 08:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Moulding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The broadcaster says VOD is additive, is taking leisure time previously spent on games, accounted for 38% of all views on one cult show, and means it can lose the battle for the family remote control in prime time and get the views later.]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting Piracy – Business As Usual Is Not Sustainable</title>
		<link>http://www.v-net.tv/fighting-piracy-%e2%80%93-business-as-usual-is-not-sustainable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.v-net.tv/fighting-piracy-%e2%80%93-business-as-usual-is-not-sustainable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 19:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob van Nunen</dc:creator>
				<NewsCategory><![CDATA[Blogs]]></NewsCategory>
		<NewsCategory><![CDATA[Videonet's Top Blogs]]></NewsCategory>

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		<description><![CDATA[Multiscreen distribution makes it harder for Pay TV operators to battle piracy but the ability to identify illegal activity, investigate and prioritise the threats and then enforce countermeasures, combined with providing attractive legal alternatives, means you can balance risk and investment.]]></description>
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		<title>Leveraging Big Data for Profitable Business Models</title>
		<link>http://www.v-net.tv/leveraging-big-data-for-profitable-business-models/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 18:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fabien Maisl</dc:creator>
				<NewsCategory><![CDATA[Blogs]]></NewsCategory>
		<NewsCategory><![CDATA[Videonet's Top Blogs]]></NewsCategory>

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		<description><![CDATA[Platform operators now have to assess the quality of service received on an array of multiscreen end user devices. They then need new data visualization techniques to present 'big data' in meaningful ways that relate to the provider’s business models and delivery infrastructure.]]></description>
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		<title>BT bundles its new premium sports channels free with broadband</title>
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		<comments>http://www.v-net.tv/bt-bundles-its-new-premium-sports-channels-free-with-broadband/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 22:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Moulding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 2 and ESPN) will include 38 live exclusive Barclays Premier League football matches and up to 69 ]]></description>
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		<title>Toshiba launches first digital TVs certified for DivX Plus Streaming ABR format</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 10:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Moulding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 OTT providers like KNOWHOW Movies by Dixons Retail in the UK. The DivX Plus Streaming certified TVs ]]></description>
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		<title>Streaming entertainment stores like CinemaNow benefit from DTS-HD surround sound</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 10:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Moulding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. DTS-HD is a high performance discrete audio codec designed specifically to enable streaming services to deliver content ]]></description>
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