OpenTV, provider of solutions for the delivery of advanced television and advanced advertising services, announced that NBC Universal has selected the OpenTV Participate solution to power, centralise and manage cross-platform interactive television applications, including Web, mobile and set-top box, for NBC Universal's broadcast and cable networks. The programs that will feature the interactive services have […]
SES will be adding QVC HD to its line up of available channels. QVC is the first home retail shopping channel to offer high-definition programming through SES Americom's HD-Prime platform.
Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) has announced its latest advanced, HD cable set-top box (STB) for the US digital television market the ADB-4820C. The product has been specifically designed to operate with new flat panel television sets and has an innovative space saving design which mounts to the back of a TV. The ADB-4820C is the […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid Telefónica has declared a 64.4 per cent increase in the number of pay-TV subscribers it serves worldwide for the first quarter of this year to reach 1.8 million, with operations up and running in Spain, the Czech Republic, Peru, Chile, Colombia and Brazil. In Spain, the company reached 554,045 […]
Tandberg Television, part of the Ericsson Group, has revealed that its MPEG-4 AVC video encoding and distribution systems have been chosen by Grupo Televisa to deliver programming across Mexico via satellite using DVB-S2 8PSK modulation. Migrating from MPEG-2, Televisa will become the first broadcaster in North America to move to an all MPEG-4 AVC distribution […]
ICTV, which provides ActiveVideo solutions that infuse TV with web content and interactivity, is changing its name to ActiveVideo Networks to better communicate the company's services.
From Sotires Eleftheriou in Paris Presenting its new launch campaign to the press, the French pay DTT operator DTT Numeric outlined its strategy and future plans. The service was “soft launched” last September as a “low cost” pay TV DTT service, with a subscription of E8 a month plus E5 for the rental of a […]
UK broadband firm PlusNet has claimed that take-up of the BBC’s iPlayer broadband TV service has slowed significantly after meteoric traffic growth in the early months of 2008. The BBC iPlayer typically accounts for 50 per cent of all streaming traffic on PlusNet’s network, according to products and development director Neil Armstrong. However, Armstrong described […]
The BBC, NHK of Japan and RAI of Italy are to collaborate on a unique demonstration in Amsterdam in September with international links of Super Hi-Vision, the system which combines 7680 x 4320 pixel images with 22.2 channel immersive audio. The demonstration is being actively supported by Siemens, the BBC's technology partner, Cable&Wireless which will […]
Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) has announced its latest advanced, HD cable set-top box (STB) for the US digital television market the ADB-4820C. The product has been specifically designed to operate with new flat panel television sets and has an innovative space saving design which mounts to the back of a TV. The ADB-4820C is the […]