The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) has announced the formal adoption of SCTE 184 and SCTE 186, the first two standards for energy management in the cable telecommunications industry. The standards, the first in a planned portfolio of energy-related specifications for the industry, have been created by the SCTE Standards Program’s Sustainability Management Subcommittee […]
Conax, a global provider of solutions for protecting multi-device digital content, has announced its contract with Grupo TV Cable in Ecuador. Together with partner Evolution Digital LLC who provides competitive STBs, Conax has deployed a cost effective and flexible content security solution for enabling Grupo TV Cable with smooth digital migration and additional services such […]
A report from a Committee of the UK’s House of Lords – the upper legislative chamber – has recommended that the Government and industry should consider the long term possibility of switching terrestrial broadcast from spectrum to the Internet. The recommendation was one of some 50 in the report – Broadband for all – an […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from two recent video reports – VoD and Encoder Equipment and Video Subscriber – which tracks equipment sold to telco IPTV, cable video, and satellite video providers, and Set-Top Boxes and Subscribers, which tracks IP, cable, satellite, and hybrid set-top boxes and OTT media servers. “2012 will be […]
The commercial deployment of the MPEG-DASH (dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP) standard is one step closer with the first live public trial, presented by Belgian public broadcaster VRT. The DASH Promoters Group, supported by the European Broadcasting Union, is facilitating live MPEG-DASH streaming of the 2012 London Olympics, with DRM content protection, to demonstrate the […]
Dutch cable company Ziggo has confirmed it is selling a further 32 million shares following its launch on the Amsterdam stock exchange earlier this year. Private equity companies Cinven and Warburg Pincus, the two biggest shareholders in Ziggo, are releasing the shares. At the launch, just 21.7 per cent of the company was up for […]
Harmonic, a specialist in video delivery infrastructures, has announced that ViewSat, a global satellite provider based in the UK, has deployed a comprehensive digital video headend based on Harmonic video processing solutions. Leveraging the high density of Harmonic’s Electra multichannel encoding and ProStream with ACE real-time stream processing and transcoding platforms, ViewSat can more efficiently […]
Conax, a global provider of solutions for protecting multi-device digital content, has announced its contract with Grupo TV Cable in Ecuador. Together with partner Evolution Digital LLC who provides competitive STBs, Conax has deployed a highly cost effective and flexible content security solution for enabling Grupo TV Cable with smooth digital migration and additional services […]
Spain’s largest cable operator, ONO, is relying on its added-value TV service TiVo in an attempt to soften the pay TV decline. The company ended the first half of the year with 897,000 pay TV subscribers against 952,000 clients a year earlier. However its TiVo service, available to 92 per cent of its network, captured […]
Modern Times Group (MTG), the international entertainment broadcasting group, has signed an agreement to acquire 80 per cent of Zitius Service Delivery from Quadracom AB for an undisclosed cash consideration. The agreement also provides for the acquisition of the remaining 20 per cent of Zitius in 2016. Zitius is Sweden’s leading independent Open Access Communications […]