At NAB Show in Las Vegas, Intel and Netflix announced a new high-performance video codec that is available as open source and royalty-free to content creators, developers and service providers. Scalable Video Technology for AV1 (SVT-AV1) offers performance and scalability in video processing. According to Intel, modernisation of video software codecs for increased efficiency will […]
Discovery is expanding its digital services in Italy, with the launch of Dplay Plus, a premium subscription streaming service offering access to content from its pay-TV brands Discovery Channel, Discovery Science, Animal Planet and ID. This new SVoD service complements Discovery Italia’s existing, successful Dplay AVoD product which is nearly four years old and includes […]
Advertising revenue across Asia Pacific expanded by 6.3 per cent in 2018 to top $180 billion, and is on course to grow by a further 6.2 per cent in 2019 to move close to $195 billion in revenue, according to a report from Media Partners Asia (MPA). Asia Pacific Advertising Trends 2019 forecasts net ad […]
Telenor Group has entered into agreements to acquire 54 per cent of the shares in the Finnish telecom operator DNA for €1.5 billion. With the transaction, Telenor said it gets a strong position across fixed and mobile in an attractive and growing telecom market, and further strengthens its position in the Nordic region. Telenor has […]
With a broad coalition of US broadcast television station groups announcing plans to deploy Next-Gen TV in the 40 largest US TV markets by the end of 2020, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has described the ATSC 3.0 digital television standard as “a pretty exciting technology that can bring new and creative services to market”. Delivering […]
Avanti Communications has signed what it describes as a “long-term bandwidth contract” with DTH broadcaster Turksat. The London AIM-traded company said that, under the contract, Turksat would commit to 1.8 GHz of capacity on the ‘Hylas 2’ satellite for the next three years, with an option to extend for a further 12 months. The contract […]
Discovery has announced the appointment of veteran communications executive Nathaniel Brown as executive vice president of global communications, based in New York. Brown comes to Discovery from 21st Century Fox, where, as Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Media Relations, he served as the deputy global communications chief for the company’s portfolio of cable, broadcast, […]
Kaltura, a video technology provider, has formed a strategic partnership with Dativa, the TV data consulting company, to develop a data lake dedicated to Cloud TV services. The data infrastructure built based on Dativa’s skills, toolset, and understanding will enable TV marketers using the Kaltura TV Platform fast time to insights and the ability to […]
MediaKind, a global media technology player, has announced at NAB that it has partnered with Google Cloud to enable MediaKind’s entire portfolio of solutions to operate on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Effective immediately, MediaKind customers can leverage and benefit from Google Cloud’s ecosystem of solutions and assets such as TensorFlow and BigTable, global networking, best-in-class […]
The World Teleport Association (WTA) has announced that Etisalat has achieved Tier 4 full certification of its Tawi Al Saman (Sharjah, UAE) Teleport under WTA’s Teleport Certification Programme. Etisalat becomes the first in MENA region to achieve WTA Tier 4 Full Certification and brings up the number of Tier 4 fully certified teleports around the […]