Advanced Television

Eyepartner tracks IPTV viewership and ratings

Eyepartner has rolled out its Advanced Analytics Module that helps network owners track the viewing behaviour of their IPTV users. Knowing this information helps network owners tailor their content offering as well as their marketing and pricing strategy to their viewers‚ preferences. The Advanced Analytics module can be integrated into any IPTV network or embedded […]

August 31, 2011

Entone and Nordija deliver hybrid TV solution

Entone, a provider of hybrid TV and connected home solutions, and Nordija, the widget-based IPTV solution provider, have confirmed the availability of Nordija’s fokusOn widget-based middleware on Entone’s family of hybrid TV devices and DVRs.  The fully integrated solution offers service operators a more efficient and cost-effective solution that can be quickly and easily deployed […]

August 31, 2011

Espial powers Vodafone Iceland IPTV

Espial has been selected to provide an IPTV solution for Vodafone Iceland. As part of the IPTV solution, Espial is providing the following products: the Evo TV Service Platform, the Evo STB Client and the Espial MediaBase VOD platform. The Espial solution will power Vodafone Iceland’s IPTV service which provides broadcast TV, TV on-demand, Catch-up […]

August 31, 2011

Wyplay offers the new “YouTube on TV” application

Wyplay, a specialist in TV-centric Operator software solutions, has integrated the “YouTube on TV” application into its client middleware and is now deploying it with its Vodafone customers. YouTube, a wholly owned subsidiary of Google, has developed a free YouTube application for the TV that lets users sit back and watch their favorite YouTube videos […]

August 31, 2011

Masstech and Quotium announce joint marketing and integration of products

Masstech, tprovider of all-in-one media asset management (MAM) solutions and archive protection software vendor, Quotium Technologies have agreed to a collaboration framework to facilitate the joint marketing of both companies’ product lines and the integration of Masstech’s powerful Cobalt with Quotium’s proactive monitoring software. Masstech and Quotium are both looking to take advantage of this […]

August 31, 2011

India tops 100m pay TV households

India has just crossed the 100 million mark for pay TV subscribers, representing more than 70 per cent of TV households. According to the India Digital TV Forecasts report, there is still plenty of growth to come, with 139 million pay TV subs forecast for 2016. ARPUs will remain low in India, though pay TV […]

August 30, 2011

YouView ‘welcomes Google TV’

YouView has welcomed the announcement of a launch for Google TV in the UK. The YouView IP television project that is backed by BBC, ITV, C4 and BT, Arqiva and TalkTalk – has had its launch delayed launch until 2012, and will now may face the might of Google TV from the outset. “The announcement […]

August 30, 2011

50% of tablet owners view movies and TV

In-Stat research reports that 50 per cent of tablet owners are viewing not only feature-length movies on their device, but TV shows as well; an important revelation to both content producers and providers alike.  Tablet and smartphones are not only becoming vital new screens for video consumption, but are also functioning as personal interaction devices […]

August 30, 2011

BBC plans 3D and hi-vision for Olympics

The BBC is considering plans to broadcast the 100 metres final of the London Olympics in 3D, as well as trying out a new technology that delivers picture quality said to be 16 times better than HDTV. Roger Mosey, the BBC executive in charge of the corporation’s London 2012 coverage, told reporters at the Edinburgh […]

August 30, 2011

Astra will demo ‘glasses free’ 3D at IBC

Satellite broadcaster SES Astra is to demo iPONT’s glasses-free 3DTV system at IBC in Amsterdam. The object is to show delegates how close the industry is to ‘glasses free’ autostereoscopic 3D for broadcasting. The demonstration aims to prove that without-glasses 3DTV technologies have reached a level of maturity and quality acceptable to the consumer market. […]

August 30, 2011By Chris Forrester