UPC DTH, a satellite TV provider in Central and Eastern Europe, has confirmed that live English Premier League action on its Slovak Sport.TV2 channel is now available through the freeSAT plus package in the Czech Republic. “We are pleased to further enrich our freeSAT plus package line-up through the addition of Slovak Sport.TV2 in the […]
NanoTech Entertainment, a pioneer in bringing the 4K Ultra HD experience to consumers, has revealed that Mitch Lowe will head up its Content Advisory Board. Lowe will help with advancing NanoTech’s major studio relationships as NanoTech expands its 4K Ultra HD business. Lowe’s career in the video business started in the 1980’s with Video Droid, […]
As the 2014 RBS Six Nations Rugby tournament kicked off on February 1st, multi-platform live streaming and catch-up TV service Simplestream confirmed that it has been selected by Discovery’s DMAX Italia to stream games in Italy. Discovery Networks recently announced that it had signed a four-year deal exclusively acquiring sports rights to broadcast across TV, […]
A Discovery channel has breached UK regulator Ofcom’s code on pre-watershed broadcasting, and the broadcaster has had to tighten up its compliance processes. Investigation Discovery is the channel in question, and a programme ‘Scorned: Crimes of Passion” was transmitted at 5pm (on Sept 24 last year). The problem were the graphic scenes of a sexual […]
On-demand software solutions specialist Motive Television has joined the HbbTV Consortium with the objective of making its Content Express technology a component of the industry standard and to extend the efficient delivery of video-on-demand content over the broadcast and broadband networks. The HbbTV consortium was created by the major stakeholders (Broadcasters, Consumer Electronics, and Broadband […]
SES has confirmed that the SES-8 satellite has been successfully co-positioned with SES’s NSS-6 satellite at the orbital location of 95 degrees East and is now fully operational to serve the thriving markets in the Asia-Pacific region. SES-8 was launched on December 3rd 2013 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on board a SpaceX/Falcon 9 booster in […]
blinkx, the Internet Media platform, has formed a partnership with Crown Media Family Networks, home of Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel, to offer blinkx users how-to clips, Kitten Bowl highlights and additional original content from Hallmark channel. Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx will place contextually relevant advertising against these videos and share resulting […]
Kartina and PeerTV are pleased to announce the launch of the Kartina IQ set top box which has been developed jointly by the two companies. The new Kartina IQ set top box is based on PeerTV’s eTV system. Russian specialist PPV TV operator Kartina targets the fast growing Russian expatriate market globally and is forecasting […]
Witbe, the next generation quality monitoring company, has announced that Amino, a manufacturer for digital TV technologies, has deployed Witbe’s quality assurance solution to automate testing of their digital TV set-top boxes. With customers and end-users’ ever increasing expectations, Amino has long been aware of the significance of high quality standards in the IPTV Industry. […]
Brightcove, a provider of cloud services for video, has announced the expansion of its operations with the opening of its office in Dubai, UAE. The Dubai office will serve as the central hub for Brightcove’s business development and marketing efforts in the Middle East and Northern Africa region. The new office will be headed by […]