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Thomson upgrades HD/SD Encoder

Thomson Video Networks has introduced the latest release of its award-winning ViBE EM4000 premium HD/SD encoder featuring Flextream 2.0, the company’s statistical multiplexing technology. With support for Flextream 2.0, the EM4000 will enable operators to optimise bandwidth usage by including non-video components in a statistical multiplexing pool. In addition, the EM4000 now includes SCTE104 handling […]

August 20, 2015

Volicon new VoD/OTT content generation workflow

Volicon has introduced a new accelerated VoD/OTT content generation workflow based on the Capture and Share applications for the company’s Observer Media Intelligence Platform. Leveraging these applications along with the platform’s content-recording capabilities, intuitive user interface, and seamless integration with edit and media asset management (MAM) systems, broadcasters can establish efficient content repurposing workflows, with […]

August 13, 2015

WISI invests in Inca

WISI, the German supplier of digital video and audio processing, broadband access and fibre optical solutions, has announced a significant investment in Inca Networks. The Canadian company is a provider of video delivery solutions for the contribution, real-time processing and monitoring of linear and multiscreen TV content. Among its customers are major pay-TV providers and […]

July 29, 2015

Vubiquity partners with Turner Broadcasting

Vubiquity, a global provider of premium content services, has announced a long-term partnership with Turner Broadcasting to capture and process Turner’s C3 and D4 VoD content and distribute it to the On Demand market. Together the companies developed a first-of-its-kind, innovative product that automates, tags and identifies content for C3 capture in high resolution, mezzanine […]

July 22, 2015

TITAN File powers TDC

ATEME has announced that TDC, Scandinavia’s leading provider of communications services, is to begin using TITAN File for OTT VoD, SVoD, TVoD and Playout file processing. The TITAN File encoder-transcoder is a truly virtualized software solution, based on Intel server class CPUs, with ultrafast high video quality processing without GPU or other hardware acceleration. TITAN […]

July 21, 2015

Brightcove enhances Video Cloud

Cloud services for video specialist Brightcove has confirmed the general availability of the new Brightcove Video Cloud, the company’s flagship solution re-architected to simplify the complexity of next-generation online video distribution and publishing. The new Video Cloud incorporates a new HTML5 user interface, faster upload and playback, mobile publishing, and new custom analytics to scale […]

July 20, 2015

Sky-D turns big data into instant entertainment access

Big data integration software specialist Talend, has confirmed that Sky Deutschland, the leading pay-TV provider in Germany and Austria, is using the Talend Data Integration Platform to support Sky’s wide variety of entertainment services. Talend manages and streamlines the flow of critical information from back-end systems to front-end services that enable consumer access to entertainment […]

July 14, 2015

LiveXLive Picks Verizon Digital Media Services

Verizon Digital Media Services now powers Loton Corp.’s new subsidiary LiveXLive, the dedicated live music-streaming network. With its end-to-end video workflow, Verizon Digital Media Services enables the video experience from ingest through delivery and distribution of LiveXLive’s streaming of the world’s leading music festivals, concerts and performances in full high-definition and with social media integration. […]

July 8, 2015

Edgeware VCP for CableLabs

Edgeware, a specialist in video delivery networks, has announced its drive for innovation by modelling industry interoperability for IP video delivery networks. Edgeware’s Video Consolidation Platform (VCP) is hosted in the CableLabs’ IPTV Innovations laboratory for cable operators and others to test-drive. In addition, the company recently worked with a number of industry players to […]

July 8, 2015

3Zero2 TV deploys AVIWEST solutions

AVIWEST, a global provider of video contribution systems, has announced that Italian television production and services provider 3Zero2 TV has deployed 50 units of the company’s DMNG PRO180-RA video uplink solutions to deliver live video transmissions for the Lega Pro football league coverage. The project was supported by Comsytec, AVIWEST’s Italian distributor and system integrator. […]

July 8, 2015