Telefónica is speeding up its optic fibre deployment. The company plans to have passed 25 million homes in 2020 – from the current 16 million and 20 million in 2017- turning Spain into the third most connected country in the world behind Japan and Korea. Today, Spain has a bigger FTTH network with more connections […]
SFR Media’s SVOD platform Zive will be rebranded SFR Play before the end of the year, says its managing director Alain Weil. SFR Play is currently the name of the bouquet that already runs movie, discovery, TV series and youth channels as well as Zive. Like Zive, SFR Play will still be integrated to SFR […]
Rovi has closed its $1.1 billion acquisition of TiVo, and the new company will become TiVo. Tom Carson, president and CEO of the newly combined business, said the deal “passed with flying colors” during shareholder meetings and said company will now move forward to act on assumptions that went into the integration planning phase. “The […]
IBC 2016, AMSTERDAM, September 8, 2016 Keepixo, a leading provider of software-based head-end solutions for IPTV and OTT today unveiled Genova Manager, a new service management framework which significantly streamlines configuration, deployment and monitoring of IPTV and OTT services. Service providers operating hundreds of services are often faced with the challenge of configuring and monitoring […]
Verizon Digital Media Services announced the availability of its Live Streaming Solution, designed to remove the complexity and high costs for broadcasters, venues and event producers when streaming live content at scale. The launch of the Live Streaming Solution coincides with key enhancements to the Verizon Digital Media Services platform, including workflow enhancements in the […]
Harmonic and NASA have released a 360-degree immersive virtual reality (VR) viewing experience to the public, featuring exclusive astronaut training footage in UHD. The stunning NASA VR/360 video offers three different perspectives of astronauts as they complete space-walk training for future missions to the International Space Station (ISS). The groundbreaking video is available for viewing […]
IBC Amsterdam, 8th of September 2016 Unified Streaming, a forerunner in smart video streaming technologies, is proud to launch Unified Remix, an elegant solution to help content owners monetize their content. Unified Remix supports many exciting use-cases, such as live-to-VOD (separating live ingest from playout), archive-to-VOD (infinite live archiving), live scheduling (rotating 24/7 playlists) or […]
SpotX, the video inventory platform for publishers, is continuing to grow its operations in the UK and Southern Europe with the appointment of Sam Wilson as Director, Business Development. Joining from Brightcove, Wilson will be responsible for enhancing SpotX’s OTT monetisation offering for publishers and broadcasters seeking to benefit from the growth of programmatic advertising. […]
FRANCE 24 has chosen AsiaSat 5 for the recent launch of its very first HD service in the world. This marks a major milestone for the expanded partnership between FRANCE 24 and AsiaSat and their continued commitment to bringing top quality international television from France to the Asia-Pacific. FRANCE 24 and AsiaSat have been partners […]
21st Century Fox has backed Jeremy Clarkson’s DriveTribe venture with US$6.5 million. The new digital portal will launch in November with Clarkson’s fellow presenters Richard Hammond and James May and backing from former Top Gear executive producer Andy Wilman and tech entrepreneur Ernesto Schmitt. DriveTribe is planning “the world’s digital hub for motoring”, with ‘tribes’ […]