Irdeto has implemented its robust customer care and billing solution for long term customer Telenor Group in Denmark for Pay TV. The solution will also be rolled out in Sweden, Norway and Finland in the next months to provide Telenor with a flexible solution that enables the effective management of multi-play services, streamlined workflows, improved […]
Online movie sales growth has slowed sharply in 2009. Screen Digest had forecast $360 milliom worth building on $219 million in 2008, but sales fell short at $291 million. The researcher doesn't believe it was recession but that demand just dropped off, not least because of the myriad of services with downloads that won't work […]
Brightcove, the online video platform, has made an agreement with Virgin Media to support short-form video content across Virginmedia.com. Virgin Media offers a range of online news, sports, music and entertainment content and will use the Brightcove platform to publish and distribute high quality, advertising-supported video across its website. The first Virgin Media brand to […]
Alcatel-Lucent has revealed that Velton Telecom, a private Ukrainian operator providing fixed communication services across 14 cities of Central, Eastern and Western parts of Ukraine, is launching a field trial of innovative IPTV services to business and residential subscribers in Kharkov and Poltava. Alcatel-Lucent has been selected as the network integrator, utilising the Microsoft Mediaroom […]
Channel Five has signed a deal with CBS to make programmes available on the US network’s on-demand video website TV.com. The partnership is establishes TV.com as a player in the UK market ahead of rival Hulu.com service. TV.com users will be able to watch programmes from Five’s catch-up TV service, Demand Five, shortly after they […]
Alan Constant, CTO of Arab Media, the major Arab satellite TV operator and owner of pay-tv broadcaster, Arab Radio and Television (ART), has announced plans to launch an IPTV service in 2010. Initially, ART will provide the IPTV service in the Middle East region with an on-demand service, offering users a variety of popular films. […]
NDS , the provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, and Telekom Austria, the fixed net subsidiary of Telekom Austria Group, have extended their relationship to secure the operator's IPTV service. Building on their existing relationship, the agreement will see NDS integrate its VideoGuard encryption technology with the new platform to ensure that the operator's […]
China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has called a halt to IPTV services provided by Guangxi Telecom, a subsidiary of China Telecom. SARFT said that the Guangxi Telecom launched IPTV operations earlier this month without permission. IPTV transmissions and operations in 14 cities in Guangxi have now been halted. Under Chinese regulations, […]
Conax had continued growth in 2009 achieving a 15 per cent market share in the global DVB market and winning the most new contracts globally for the fifth year running. Conax is one of the top three content security providers for digital TV and content distribution world-wide. A niche provider of security with a global […]
Irdeto has announced its full compatibility with Abertis Telecom's TDT Premium content protection solution. Irdeto and Abertis Telecom, one of the leading telco infrastructure and services operators in Europe, have worked to validate the Irdeto Conditional Access System (CAS) integration into Abertis Telecom's open digital terrestrial TV TDT platform. This milestone will give Spanish TV […]