The North American Broadcasters Association (NABA) and the Digital Production Partnership (DPP) have unveiled two new technical specifications for the delivery of finished air-ready programmes for North America. Through joint NABA and DPP meetings, nine of the major North American broadcasters – ABC/Disney, Bell Media, CBC/Radio-Canada, Fox, HBO, NBCUniversal, PBS, Time Warner and Turner – […]

IABM has launched an industry-wide endorsement scheme for Industry Collaborative Groups (ICGs) within broadcast and media technology. The ICG Endorsement Scheme is a major IABM initiative and is designed to encourage collaboration across a wide range of industry issues and opportunities, from education and best practice to standardisation and interoperability. IABM’s vision is for a […]

Fox Networks Group and Evertz have joined the Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) to help foster the adoption of common standards for delivery and distribution of video, audio, and metadata over IP. Fox and Evertz have pledged to support the initiative undertaken by the Video Services Forum (VSF) on TR-03 aimed at standardising the […]

A broad coalition of consumer technology companies, commercial and public television stations and public safety advocates have filed a joint petition with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requesting local television stations and television receiver manufacturers be permitted to adopt a new over-the-air broadcast transmission standard on a voluntary, market-driven basis. The Next-Gen TV standard was […]

MoCA (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) has approved its newest specification, MoCA 2.5, capable of up to 2.5 Gbps actual data rates, with additional features that address network management and security as required by service providers worldwide. The new specification is backward interoperable with MoCA 2.0 and MoCA 1.1. “MoCA has once again raised the performance […]

Guavus, a provider of big data analytics applications for operational intelligence, has joined the RDK Community as a licensee. Guavus’ suite of operational analytics applications make it easy to draw together data collected from RDK set-top boxes, gateways and other devices, together with the operator’s own network data and customer interaction data, to provide real-time […]

The ASPEN Community has announced that ASPEN has achieved a significant milestone as it has been published by Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), a specialist in motion-imaging standards and education for the communications, media, entertainment, and technology industries. Adaptive Sample Picture Encapsulation (ASPEN), which was submitted to SMPTE as a Registered Disclosure […]

The HbbTV Association, a global initiative dedicated to providing an open standard for the delivery of broadcast and broadband services through connected TVs and set-top boxes, has announced that it will create a specification for operator applications. This specification will be based on the existing HbbTV 2.0 specification. An ‘operator application’ is an application offered  […]

The Alliance for Open Media has announced that AMD, ARM and Nvidia have joined the consortium in pursuit of an open and royalty-free AOMedia Video codec. The Alliance is also announcing public availability of its AOMedia Video source code as an open source project, and is welcoming contribution from the broader developer community. “The open […]