Zappware, a developer of off-the-shelf and custom-designed digital television solutions, announces that its award-winning Nexx UI design has now also been deployed by cable operator Numericable in Belgium and Luxembourg. Zappware’s Nexx UI design had been deployed first by Numericable in France as part of Numericable’s La Box solution. There it has been highly recognized immediately after its market launch [...]
AT&T is launching a new, media-rich U-verse On Demand storefront, designed to provide a more intuitive and convenient way to discover movies and TV shows. The new U-verse On Demand storefront features: – A new user interface with intuitive navigation. – Colourful poster art to find what you want faster. – New advanced search tools, allowing users to search for [...]
Video search engine blinkx has revealed that its full year revenues have grown by 73 per cent to $198 million. Adjusted pre-tax profits were $24.6 million, an increase of 129 per cent from the year before. This growth has in part been attributed to the London Olympics and the Presidential elections – as web users logged on to view videos [...]
Digital UK has published a consultation on proposals for allocating channel numbers to HD services in the Freeview electronic programme guide. The consultation anticipates future growth of HD channels on Freeview and includes proposed updates to Digital UK’s channel number policy. The proposals within this consultation will not necessitate changes to current channel numbers. Digital UK is keen to receive [...]
Espial, a specialist in on-demand TV software and solutions, has been granted US Patent No. 8,286,217 by the US Patent and Trademark Office. The patent covers technology that enables service providers to implement fast channel change (FCC) on set-top boxes and TVs powered by IPTV networks. Together with the current patent grant, Espial now has patents with more than 80 [...]
Myriad Group, the company creating and connecting communities across mobile and TV, has announced that 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 client devices that is rapidly being adopted [...]
Video search engine blinkx has provided a trading update for the financial year ended March 31st 2013. Highlights include: • Revenues for the yearare expected to be approximately $196 million, ahead of the previously upgraded range of $180 to $185 million, an increase of 71 per cent from the year ended March 31st 2012. • Adjusted EBITDA is expected to [...]
Motive Television US patent application titled “Place-shifting apparatus and system” has been approved and will be granted. This patent application was originally filed in 2006 by NXVision Ltd and was acquired by Motive Television in 2010 along with the rest of the assets of NXVision. The patent discloses an embedded place-shifting system which allows transfer of content from a set-top [...]
Rovi Corporation announced at NAB DivX Video Service, an end-to-end video solution for high-quality multi-screen video delivery that is designed to integrate with and enhance TV Everywhere and over-the-top entertainment services. Building upon core DivX video technologies and DRM, as well as MainConcept professional encoders, DivX Video Service offers components for managing the entire video distribution chain from creation and [...]
Video management software and services company KIT digital is extending the functionality of its VOD Store solution with PerSys, the personalisation system. PerSys gives clients the ability rapidly to deploy a recommendation engine, calling on internal and external data to drive consumption, and therefore revenues, through better access to the right content. PerSys is a new addition to the VOD [...]
