Advanced Television

Middleware

SeaChange advertising platform

SeaChange International has unveiled its new generation SeaChange Infusion Advanced Advertising Platform to help video operators manage centralised ad operations and scale to 150,000 insertable channels and millions of ad assets. The platform’s foundation is the new SeaChange Infusion Linear Advertising Server, shipping later this year, which enables linear ad insertion in an open plug-and-play […]

May 18, 2011

Espial aids RomTelecom IPTV take-up

Espial, a specialist in On-Demand TV solutions, has announced that RomTelecom has now surpassed 35,000 IPTV subscribers with access to on-demand TV services powered by Espial MediaBase. These include timeshift-TV and video-on-demand services. RomTelecom is the incumbent telecom provider in Romania with more than 2.7 million landlines.

May 17, 2011

KIT digital powers launch of China United Television

KIT digital, a cloud-based software solutions and technology services provider for multi-screen video delivery, has revealed that its KIT Platform, a multi-screen IP video software solution, will power the new China United Television (CUTV) project, a new media platform initially developed by a consortium of 19 leading television stations and newspapers throughout the People’s Republic […]

May 17, 2011

MPP to develop YouView payment module

MPP Global Solutions has been selected by Vision+Media to develop a payment module to integrate with YouView and other IPTV platforms for a new initiative. MPP, a provider of payment services and eCommerce solutions to the media and entertainment industries are to integrate their eCommerce payment services into various IPTV platforms but with focus on […]

May 11, 2011

TrueVisions selects NDS

NDS has been selected by TrueVisions, Thailand’s largest pay-TV operator, to secure and enable next-generation hybrid services for its subscribers. The solutions selected by TrueVisions will enable it to securely engage and maintain viewer interest with new TV features and services. NDS VideoGuard, the pay-TV security solution which currently protects over $50 billion worth of […]

May 11, 2011

TTNet selects SeaChange for IPTV rollout

Turkish ISP TTNet has selected video equipment developer SeaChange International as systems integrator and a primary technology provider for its IPTV service Tivibu Ev. SeaChange assembled a multinational team of engineers, project managers and technology partners to build advanced television services. SeaChange’s professional services have developed the operational processes and procedure designs to support the […]

May 10, 2011

TV Azteca expands HDTV service with Harmonic

Harmonic has announced that TV Azteca, the second largest broadcaster in Mexico, has deployed Harmonic’s IP-based video processing solutions to facilitate satellite distribution of its expanded HDTV service to hundreds of retransmission sites throughout Mexico and Central America. The new DVB-S2-based distribution system relies on Harmonic’s multifunction compression and stream processing solutions to reduce the […]

May 9, 2011

MPP to monetise woomi on Samsung connected TVs

MPP Global Solutions, a provider of payment services and eCommerce solutions to the media and entertainment endustries, are set to integrate their eCommerce payment services into the woomi platform to monetise the cloud-based video distribution service across multiple devices including Samsung connected TVs and Blu-ray players in the UK, ahead of an international launch in […]

May 6, 2011

Cryptography Research and Athena announce developer ecosystem agreement for differential power analysis countermeasures patents

Cryptography Research and The Athena Group have announced an agreement which will enable Athena to develop Differential Power Analysis (DPA) countermeasures for use by licensees of CRI’s DPA patents. “As part of our focus on delivering high-quality tamper-resistant security cores to serve the needs of ASIC and FPGA customers, Athena is excited to become a […]

May 6, 2011

GMI selects ANT for German HbbTV market

ANT, a provider of software and services for the delivery of digital TV, has announced that Good Mind Industries (GMI) has selected the ANT Galio HbbTV Platform for its new range of STBs. Working closely with German distributor COMAG, the product line is to be targeted at the HbbTV (Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV) retail market […]

May 5, 2011