NAGRA, the Kudelski Group company, has acquired Sigma Systems’ Subscriber Information Service platform (SIS) business. As part of the business partnership, Sigma Systems will continue its product development and deployment support associated with the launch of the SIS business for NAGRA. “NAGRA is committed to enabling advanced advertising capabilities, addressability in particular, for service […]
The BBC is firmly behind 3DTV, although Jo Sermon, BBC Worldwide’s director of content strategy, speaking October 3 at the MIPCOM programming market, said the BBC is also playing the long game in that 3D is suitable for play-out on tablets, smart-phones, laptops, 3D-based Internet as well as Blu-ray devices. Sermon told MIPCOM delegates that […]
BBC Worldwide confirmed that the global BBC iPlayer App has launched in Australia and will be available to on the App Store exclusively on iPad. The app will give iPad users access to a quality mix of classic and contemporary British television specifically tailored for Australian viewers. The global BBC iPlayer is a video […]
Microsoft is said to be planning a Web-based pay-TV service that it can build onto its Xbox Live platform say US reports. Microsoft is working with Comcast and Verizon to bring TV to the Xbox 360 connected game console. Within the next few weeks, Comcast will make Xfinity On Demand content available to Xbox users, […]
International Launch Services (ILS), using a Proton rocket with its Briz-M booster stage, successfully launched SES’s QuetzSat-1 satellite late on Sept 30 from the Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Some nine hours into the flight, the satellite was flawlessly separated from the rocket into its geostationary transfer orbit. ILS has now launched 19 SES satellites using the Proton […]
Spain’s largest pay-TV platform, Digital Plus, is changing its name and from mid-October will use the brand Canal Plus. The current channel Canal Plus will be branded as Canal Plus 1 to avoid misunderstanding. So, the Canal Plus family of channels will be named: Canal + 1, Canal+ Dos, Canal+ Acción, Canal+ Acción… 30, Canal+ […]
A Russian governmental commission has approved the use of the DVB-T2 standard for the development of digital terrestrial TV in Russia, as proposed by the Ministry of Communications. The digital terrestrial TV network is currently being tested out in the Tver region. New regional networks will be deployed under the DVB-T2 standard and existing DVB-T […]
The European Union has imposed sanctions on Syria’s Al-Dounia TV channel. The decision has provoked a strong response from Lebanon’s Al Manar TV, itself often criticised for its lack of balance in its broadcasting. Europeans are forbidden to do business with the Syrian channel, along with similar proscriptions against Syria’s largest cellular operator (Syriatel) […]
UPC Austria customers in Vienna, Graz and Klagenfurt will be able to receive Sky Deutschland’s premium channels after the two operators struck a distribution agreement. From next week UPC will begin offering the Sky Film, Sky Sport and Sky Bundesliga packages to its Digital TV Plus customers. The cable operator will charge an introductory fee […]
Amazon has unveiled its colour tablet computer, the Kindle Fire which at $199 is less than half the price of Apple’s iPad. It runs a modified version of Google’s Android operating system. But its most compelling proposition is its direct connection to Amazon’s ocean of content – books, music, magazines, videos and films – not […]