Advanced Television

Samsung 34ft wide LED screen

South Korea’s technology conglomerate Samsung is going after the cinema screen market with a massive 33.8 ft-wide (10.3 metres) LED ‘Super-S’ display, with 4K resolution and a claimed ‘peak brightness level nearly 10-times greater than that offered by conventional digital cinema projection”. Samsung installed the first unit into the Lotte Cinema World Tower complex in […]

July 18, 2017By Chris Forrester

Games software/hardware over $150bn revenue in 2017

Games software/hardware combined are set to drive more than $150 billion (€129.85bn) revenue for the first time ever in 2017, with software taking around three-quarters and hardware around one-quarter of the total, reports Digi-Capital. With a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.9 per cent for the next 5 years, games software/hardware combined could top […]

July 18, 2017

Germany: ADTRAN, DT trials G.fast over copper

ADTRAN, a provider of next-generation open networking solutions, has announced the start of lab testing of the latest innovations in the G.fast standard, 212MHz and coordinated dynamic time allocation (cDTA) together with Deutsche Telekom (DT). DT is evaluating these ultra-broadband technologies using Fibre-to-the-Building (FTTB) deployment models allowing the use of existing cable infrastructure within the […]

July 18, 2017

TVPlayer selects SpotX ad platform

SpotX, the video ad serving platform, has been appointed as the ad serving infrastructure for TVPlayer across all its inventory, including connected TV, desktop and smartphones.  Advertisers and their agencies can now target TVPlayer’s one million-strong audience viewing 106 UK television channels using data-driven buying. TVPlayer enables viewers to watch the best free-to-air UK TV […]

July 18, 2017

FlameFy, OKAST to launch jazz SVoD Qwest TV

Qwest TV brings together two generations of committed music lovers who share a single passion: jazz. This joint Franco-American collaboration between the legendary Quincy Jones and Reza Ackbaraly has given birth an SVoD platform dedicated to jazz and jazz-inspired music forms. Launching in the US autumn 2017, subscribers to Qwest TV will choose when and […]

July 18, 2017

Sky Deutschland chooses Yospace for Sky Go

Sky Deutschland has chosen Yospace’s dynamic ad insertion platform to monetise live channels on its TV Everywhere service Sky Go. The system allows addressable advertising to be served across Sky Deutschland’s suite of live sports coverage, including The Bundesliga and UEFA Champions League. Boris Haug, Vice President Product, Brand Solutions & Operations of Sky Media, […]

July 18, 2017

AP, Red Bull Media House collaborate

Associated Press and Red Bull Media House have announced a collaboration that will allow AP clients to access a curated mix of sports, dance, music and lifestyle video and images from the world of Red Bull. Each week, AP Video Hub and AP Images will offer registered clients 15 or more curated content items representing […]

July 18, 2017

ODMedia uses ATEME’s TITAN File

ATEME has announced that its video transcoding software TITAN File is being used by ODMedia, a European VoD full service company, to provide extra features to its high-quality encoding facility.   TITAN File is based on ATEME’s Fifth Generation STREAM compression engine and delivers the highest video quality at the lowest possible bitrate with accelerated parallel […]

July 18, 2017

Game of Thrones S7 launches in the Moscow Metro

The opening night of episode #1 of the legendary saga Game of Thrones Season 7 launched at the Mayakovskaya station on the Moscow Metro in the early hours of July 18th. Organised jointly by the Amediateka svod service and the Moscow Metro, 350 invited guests, both vips and Game of Thrones fans, gathered under the domed arches of the stunning Mayakovskaya metro station to watch […]

July 18, 2017

ADB supplying next generation gateway to Optima Italia

ADB, a provider of hardware and software solutions for broadband, has announced its commercial relationship with Optima Italia SpA, an integrated telecommunication, light and gas service provider in Italy. ADB is proud to supply to Optima its next generation gateway for the commercial offering “TUTTO-IN-UNO’’, residential and, small and medium businesses (SMB). This strategic cooperation with […]

July 18, 2017