Imagine Communications has appointed Stephan Heimbecher as its new international director of consulting services, based out of Munich, Germany. Heimbecher joins Imagine Communications from Sky Deutschland, where he spent the last 16 years at the helm of innovation and standards for the German media company. In his new role at Imagine Communications, Heimbecher will lead […]
Greek journalists working on TV and radio programmes went on strike for 24 hours on November 27th in support for a national general walk-out. Newspapers will not be published today, November 28th, the day of the general strike. Greek labour unions are demanding an end to Greece’s long-running austerity programme. Union demands include pension increases, […]
Amazon Web Services has announced the availability of AWS Elemental MediaConnect, a reliable, secure, and flexible service for ingesting, transmitting and replicating live video feeds. AWS Elemental MediaConnect lets broadcasters and content owners cost-effectively send their high-value live content into the cloud, securely transmit it to partners for distribution or replicating one source to multiple […]
GolfTV, the upcoming streaming service from Discovery, has signed up Tiger Woods to a multi-year global relationship. A statement from Discovery said the two will collaborate on a “wide range of programming, content creation and storytelling opportunities” that will help fill out the library for the on-demand and live gold matches. Discovery earlier this year […]
LG Electronics has announced key changes to its organisation in an effort to enhance its strengths and more vigorously address the challenges ahead. In addition to leadership changes, LG is also focusing on structural changes. Brian Kwon, currently president of LG’s Home Entertainment Company, will also assume leadership of the Mobile Communications (MC) Company. Mr. […]
Witbe, a specialist in Quality of Experience Monitoring, has announced the launch of its QoE Snapshots. In the same way that a consumer report tests a product and publishes an analysis of its overall quality, the Witbe QoE Snapshots tests digital services to make available to the market information on the true Quality of Experience […]
The Internet is made up of thousands of public and private networks around the world. And since it came to life in 1984, more than 4.7 zettabytes of IP traffic have flowed across it. That’s the same as all the movies ever made crossing global IP networks in less than a minute. Yet the new […]
IHS Markit says that sales of 8K sets are below their already modest expectations. At best only 18,000 8K sets will be sold globally this year according to IHS forecasts – well down on its own earlier predictions that some 85,000 units would be sold in 2018. However, Japanese 8K full-time transmissions will start this […]
BT Plus now comes with a ‘Complete Wi-Fi’ guarantee – ensuring customers get strong wi-fi signal in every room of their home With its Complete Wi-Fi, BT guarantees customers wall-to-wall coverage, and provides faster wi-fi speeds – boosting average speeds in a four-bedroom house by up to 25 per cent – allowing customers to stream […]
In a move that strengthens its Broadcast & Media business, signal strength specialist Rohde & Schwarz has acquired graphics, master control and integrated playout systems specialist Pixel Power. With this acquisition Rohde & Schwarz further expands its portfolio to complement existing product lines. “With the acquisition of Pixel Power we are significantly expanding our Broadcast […]