Rentrak, the multi-screen measurement outfit, has signed a contract with 210 Digital Media, a specialist in paid VoD content, to use Rental’s OnDemand Essentials service. 210 Digital Media, which produces and distributes digital programming to cable, satellite and broadcast companies worldwide, will use OnDemand Essentials to measure and report on demand viewing to better serve […]
Following tests conducted across the country, at800, the organisation responsible for protecting Freeview when 4G at 800 MHz is rolled out across the UK, has provided a new estimate of the likely scale of the impact. If national rollout reflects the results seen during its tests, at800 expects no more than 90,000 households, with Freeview […]
German cable MSO Kabel Deutschland has started transmission of the new DVB-C2 standard on cable channel D794 (794 MHz centre frequency) at ANGA COM 2013 as part of an extended DVB-C2 field trial in its CATV networks in Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. The field trial will migrate into a regular service as soon as relevant […]
US pay-TV giant DirecTV says it will start offering home security to subscribers next year. DirecTV on June 5th acquired LifeShield, which specialises in monitoring doors, windows and offers various video camera options. DirecTV will then be matching the likes of Comcast and Time Warner Cable who already supply home security to subscribers. DirecTV says […]
Nielsen and Syncbak have announced the successful completion of a technical trial aimed at capturing and measuring viewing of television content on mobile devices using Syncbak technology. The trial verified that broadcasters can obtain measureable online and mobile viewing using Syncbak technology. In collaboration with CBS, which is a strategic investor of Syncbak, Nielsen conducted […]
Excentis, a provider of testing services for access network technology, has launched a new service for testing Wi-Fi access points. The unique testing approach in a real-world environment – a first in Europe – provides both operators and manufacturers with representative parameters for assessing the performance of Wi-Fi access points. Wi-Fi technology is complex, especially […]
S3 Group, an international digital TV company that accelerates end-to-end delivery of multiscreen TV, has been selected by Loxxess, a German logistics company providing European warehouse and fulfilment solutions, to supply a reverse logistics screening solution for Tele Columbus Group. S3 Group’s role is to improve testing accuracy to reduce after sales costs, and provide insight […]
Harmonic, a specialist in video delivery infrastructure, has revealed that Virgin Media has deployed Harmonic’s ProMedia Suite for a trial of the new Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) protocol. Utilising Harmonic’s ProMedia Live real-time transcoder and ProMedia Package stream packager in its innovations research headend facility in London, Virgin Media can deliver more efficient […]
HomeGrid Forum has welcomed the announcement by Sigma Designs that it has become the second company awarded Certification for its G.hn silicon. Its CG5200 chip passed the rigorous HomeGrid testing necessary to be Certified under the HomeGrid Compliance and Interoperability (C&I) program. The testing was completed at the end of May 2013 at HomeGrid’s accredited […]
Latens, a provider of security solutions for payTV providers across all distribution networks, has confirmed that Polish cable operator Multimedia Polska have renewed their contract with Latens for the delivery of solutions based on Titanium technology to secure their content and revenues and support their aggressive expansion in Poland. Multimedia Polska is one of Poland’s […]