Technology giant Ericsson has introduced what it claims is the world’s first HEVC encoder unit for live video transmission in particular to mobile devices. The units tap into the very latest in compression technologies which could save broadcasters and operators up to 50 per cent in delivery bandwidth, while at the same time boosting download […]
Digital TV Labs, a provider of independent, specialised receiver conformance products and services, has announced its full support for the release of the HbbTV Test Suite via its advanced Ligada iSuite test harness. Digital TV Labs has been closely involved with the development of the official HbbTV Test Suite against the v1.1 specification from within […]
UK regulator Ofcom has authorised Everything Everywhere, the JV of the Orange and T-Mobile networks, to use its existing bandwidth to launch fourth-generation (4G) mobile services. Everything Everywhere will be allowed to offer 4G services from 11th September. Ofcom said the move would deliver “significant benefits” to consumers that outweigh any competition concerns. Vodafone and […]
Global triple-play subscriptions will reach 400 million by 2017; up by nearly 300 million on the end-2011 total and up by 380 million on the 2007 total, according to a report from Digital TV Research. Covering 80 countries, the report forecasts that the Asia Pacific region will contribute 257 million of the 2017 total; up […]
The UK will have the fastest broadband of any major European country by 2015, according to Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. In a speech at Google’s Campus building in London, he reiterated that he wanted to bring high-speed broadband – which he defined as greater than 24 Megabits per second – to more than 90 per […]
France’s Vivendi has reshuffled its board, appointing Jean-Yves Charlier as head of telecoms and giving the chairman of pay-TV channel Canal +, Bertrand Meheut, the task of reviewing its media and content activities. Charlier will take the telecoms job in October after quitting as head of interactive learning company Promethean and leaving the supervisory board […]
Agama Technologies, the video service quality assurance expert, has become an official Microsoft Mediaroom ecosystem partner and will launch a Mediaroom edition of its complete end-to-end DTV Monitoring Solution. “Parts of our solution have already been deployed for a few years in Mediaroom environments with several operators, primarily to monitor in head-ends and post A-server […]
Agama Technologies, the video service quality assurance expert, today announces that it has become an official Microsoft® Mediaroom® ecosystem partner and will launch a Mediaroom edition of its complete end-to-end DTV Monitoring Solution at IBC2012. The solution offers Mediaroom-powered IPTV operators the same powerful presentation, aggregation, reporting and alarming functionality that has established Agama as […]
Australian set-top based Internet TV service FetchTV is quickly expanding its subscriber base after the bundling of its service with its partners iiNet and Optus. As of July, iiNet has begun promoting a bundle of services that includes Fetch television along with Internet and phone services. This follows the bundling of Fetch with Optus’s broadband […]
T-VIPS, a specilaist in professional video contribution and distribution solutions, announced the launch of the next generation of its video-centric network management solution, Connect5. This solution provides broadcasters and network operators with the ability to monitor and control multiple video network infrastructures. “Our Connect5 solution gives network operators and broadcasters a simple and cost-effective way […]