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Cobalt Digital gear helps NEP deliver national telecast from Hollywood’s Motion Picture Awards

Four of NEP Broadcasting’s fleet of production trucks, all equipped with a significant complement of Cobalt Digital gear, worked the red carpet and the main event at the national telecast of the motion picture awards from Hollywood.   NEP utilised over 100 Cobalt downconverters, as well as embedders, de-embedders, frame syncs and color correctors to support […]

March 23, 2011

Telenor explains Thor 7 plan

Telenor Satellite Broadcasting’s (TSBc) CEO Cato Halsaa joked that about the only time he formally met with his main board CEO was when he wanted “a few hundred million dollars” in funding for yet another satellite! To date, the answer has always been positive, and clearly helped by the extremely positive results Halsaa’s division has […]

March 22, 2011By Chris Forrester

TV Anytime files ad-insertion patent

Motive Television’s subsidiary Adecq Digital (TV Anytime) has filed for a new patent for its Bestv technology. The patent, filed in Spain on February 11th but with plans to be extended throughout the EU, allows for “Ad Insertion Solution in a Push Environment”, says Motive. A statement from Motive says: “This highly developed technology enables […]

March 22, 2011By Chris Forrester

NDS addressable advertising for DirecTV

NDS is working with DirecTV, the US DTH prvider, to deliver addressable advertising insertion technology and enhanced audience measurement capabilities on the platform. NDS will deliver key elements of its NDS Dynamic suite of advanced advertising solutions including local DVR video ad insertion and advertising audience measurement capabilities. The NDS Dynamic components delivered to DirecTV […]

March 22, 2011

Ericsson VOD for Spain’s ‘R’

Ericsson has been selected by Spanish cable operator R to provide a solution that gives its subscribers the freedom to access on-demand content for the first time. R’s new VOD service allows consumers to view a wide variety of movies and TV programmes on request from a catalogue of thousands of hours of content. “Consumer […]

March 22, 2011From IP&TV World Forum

New satellite for Optus

Australian telco Optus has confirmed the commissioning of a brand new satellite, Optus 10, to be deployed for Australia and New Zealand – expanding the fleet to become the largest in the company’s and Australia’s history. Vicki Brady, Managing Director, Optus Wholesale and Satellite, said that satellite continued to make sense for Australia. “Optus 10 […]

March 21, 2011By Colin Mann

HBO GO app on Samsung TVs

Samsung Electronics has revealed that its Smart TVs will soon offer immediate access to more than 1,400 titles of HBO programming through an upcoming HBO GO app to be offered via Samsung Apps later this year. The app, which can be installed onto a Samsung Smart TV or Smart Blu-ray player, will be available at […]

March 21, 2011

Intelsat expands reach for Sun TV

Intelsat, the world’s leading provider of fixed satellite services, has announced that Sun TV Network has signed a multi-year, multi-transponder contract for C-band capacity on the recently launched Intelsat 17 satellite (IS-17) at the 66º E orbital location. The agreement marks the second major programmer to join the line-up at Intelsat’s newly expanded video neighborhood […]

March 21, 2011

Agama launches 4.0 DTV monitoring solution

Agama Technologies, the quality assurance expert, has announced the launch of version 4.0 of the Agama DTV Monitoring Solution for cable, DTH and IPTV operators – which includes a system-wide remake of the GUI, and a foundation restructure to strongly increase the solution’s openness and scalability. The Agama DTV Monitoring Solution is a complete and […]

March 21, 2011

Go Malta chooses Minerva Networks for next generation television services

Minerva Networks, provider of carrier-class solutions for the delivery of television services over broadband networks, has announced that Go Malta has selected its platform to offer broadcast TV, video-on-demand and over-the-top (OTT) television  services for up to 100,000 subscribers. Go Malta will use Minerva’s carrier software called xTVFusion to help manage the IP delivery of […]

March 21, 2011