Motive TV has won a US pilot trial for its ‘television anytime, anywhere’ place and time-shifting technology. San Francisco’s KOFY-TV, owned by Granite Broadcasting, is to test-run the service in order to “identify the most attractive features…for all of Granite’s US markets,” according to a statement. Len Fertig, CEO of Motive Television PLC said: “Motive’s […]
Verimatrix has announced the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) for IPTV will be deployed on the NTV-PLUS wholesale network to secure video for the “IPTV NTV-Plus” service via local broadband network operators. NTV-Plus, a leading Russian satellite broadcaster covering all of European Russia, Siberia and Ukraine with more than two million subscribers, is adding […]
RGB Networks, the expert in high-capacity multi-screen video delivery solutions, has announced that strong worldwide demand for its TV Everywhere solutions has propelled the company’s lifetime product shipments past $200 million. The pace of RGB’s growth is accelerating with the company earning its second $100 million in shipments in two years compared to over three […]
Access CO, a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile, beyond-PC and digital TV markets, has announced that following a successful trial, Logiways, the French VOD, conditional access and TV middleware specialist, has selected Access’ solutions including NetFront Browser DTV Profile HbbTV Edition, NetFront Widgets and NetFront Living Connect 2.0 DLNA (Digital Living […]
Yahoo has bought IntoNow, a start-up that enables users to identify and share television programmes with their online friends. IntoNow, which is led by Adam Cahan, a former executive with Google and MTV, works with an app on a user’s phone which scans the audio waves from TV sets and identifies the programmes being aired. […]
Verizon has unveiled the next generation of its all-fibre-optic FiOS TV The company used customer feedback gained from its product development labs, field trials and social media forums to create many of the more than 25 upgrades to FiOS TV’s advanced Interactive Media Guide. The enhancements include 3D content software, which automatically detects when a […]
The global consulting firm is producing a turnkey solution: OTT TV, aimed at letting service providers, content companies or retailers deliver both linear and on-demand content to TV sets and a range of other platforms including PCs, mobile, gaming consoles and broadband-connected TVs. Unveiled at NAB, the Accenture Over-The-Top TV solution is “based on a […]
Motorola Solutions and Huawei Technologies have entered into an agreement to settle all pending litigation between them on breach of trade secrets. Motorola Solutions has agreed to withdraw its claims and dismiss, with prejudice, Huawei as a defendant in the Motorola v. Lemko litigation pending in the Chicago court. For its part, Huawei has agreed […]
Media Excel, a provider of live and file based encoding and n-Screen adaptive bitrate transcoding, and Verimatrix, have formed a partnership that enables digital TV service operators to securely deploy high quality video over any IP network to multiple screens – TVs, PCs, mobile devices and beyond. A combination of the Verimatrix VCAS for Internet […]
Lyfe Communications, a technology expert in the development of next generation media services, has completed software development of a virtual Set Top Box (vSTB), and are creating a program to deploy that technology in trials with partner operators. Greg Smith, CEO of Lyfe Communications commented: “We have blended industry accepted conditional access security with standard […]