Skyworth, a TV manufacturer based in China, has selected the full suite of Opera TV solutions to provide a complete Smart TV experience. After achieving No.1 domestic TV market share in China, Skyworth now has its eyes on the global Smart TV market by launching its new Smart TV models powered by the Opera Devices […]

NetCracker Technology has revealed that Suddenlink Communications will implement NetCracker’s Customer Management and CRM solution with intentions to accelerate ordering and problem resolution, improve customer service efficiency, reduce training cost and effort, and minimise overall “time to serve,” in order to increase customer satisfaction. Suddenlink is a cable TV and broadband provider in the US […]

SeaChange International and ThinkAnalytics, developer of the world’s most deployed multiplatform TV search and recommendations engine, have announced their global reseller agreement and integration of the SeaChange Adrenalin multi-screen video platform with the ThinkAnalytics Search and Recommendations Engine. The joint solution will enable video service providers and content owners to deliver multi-screen television with the […]

Conax, a global provider of solutions for securing digital video content distribution, has announced that Kerala Communicators Cable has entered a pilot project to deploy the new Conax Cardless solution. KCCL is a consortium of over 3000 independent cable TV networks in Kerala, South India. The pilot project includes an upgrade of KCCL’s existing Conax […]

Opera Software and Sigma Designs, a provider of System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions for home entertainment, connectivity and converging multimedia delivery, have announced that the Opera Devices SDK will land in Sigma Designs’ Smart TV processors. Opera partnered with Sigma in 2013 to demonstrate Opera’s TV web products for Sigma Designs’ Smart TV processors. Now, by licensing […]

In a further move distancing video delivery services away from the customer’s set-top box and the operator’s network infrastructure, Cisco has announced an expansion of its Videoscape TV services delivery platform to include a host of new cloud video capabilities, including an industry-first Videoscape ‘as-a-service’ offering and open cloud software technologies based on OpenStack. These […]

Jinni, the creator of the Entertainment Genome and semantic video discovery, is to team up with Ooyala, an innovator in video streaming and analytics, to deliver advanced video discovery technology for media companies, broadcasters and pay-TV operators everywhere. The technology will integrate Ooyala’s machine-learning big-data analytics systems with Jinni’s semantic discovery to deliver a powerful […]

HTTV has revealed that httvLink, its HbbTV open-middleware for connected TV STBs, has been selected by Eutelsat KabelKiosk to power its new wholesale HbbTV IPTV offering. This will be the first time that HbbTV will be deployed on IPTV networks. KabelKiosk is a provider of ready to use TV products and services in Europe for […]

New Q3 data from Synergy Research Group shows that Cisco has maintained its leadership in four of the five main video infrastructure market segments, though in video client hardware and software (which includes set-top boxes, residential gateways and associated software/middleware) it slipped to third ranked position, being overtaken by Pace. In the other major change […]

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has expressed worries that over personalisation of media services will lead to a kind of Balkanisation with people never sampling new material and an end to ‘audience events.’ At a panel session about digital delivery at a meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors in Washington, Hastings said that personalisation is […]