SMIT, the global leader in the design and development of Conditional Access Module (CAM) extends partnership with the Austrian Broadcasting Services (ORS) on the DVB-T2 platform, launching a CAM integrated with HbbTV solution under simpliTV brand. The HbbTV CAM, which is compatible with Irdeto cardless solution and HbbTV1.5, providing user ID and entitlement status to […]
The way audiences watch television is changing. With new types of video services competing for viewers’ time, traditional players must respond to survive. But what kind of new viewing habits are evolving, and how will the current wave of innovation permanently alter the way consumers watch broadcast content? In August 2015, Brightcove commissioned research firm […]
Fleur Pellerin , the French Minister of Culture and Communication, has confirmed government plans to increase the telco tax from 0.9 per cent to 1.2 per cent of their annual revenues and limit to €1 the rise in the TV licence fee so as to give larger resources to PSB groups France Télévisions and Radio […]
The OTT TV and video business lures operators and broadcasters with an expanded audience reach, new technological capabilities and unrivaled user engagement levels. However, to succeed, TV operators have to meet such challenges like complex video delivery and an uncertain business model. And they also have to differentiate themselves from all other access methods for […]
Personalised entertainment experience specialist Rovi Corporation and voice and language solutions provider Nuance Communications have revealed a joint initiative to deliver an end-to-end solution for conversational entertainment discovery. Nuance and Rovi will provide a fully integrated conversational voice interface that ultimately delivers a personalised entertainment experience where people can speak naturally to quickly and easily […]
ICFLIX, the Middle East and North African online streaming service, has agreed a deal with Humax, the set-top box manufacturer, to integrate the ICFLIX app directly into Humax Android set-top boxes for the GCC region. “The integration of the ICFLIX app on Humax’s Android set-top boxes will make it easier for customers to watch premium […]
Motive Television has confirmed its intention to make TabletTV available on the recently announced new Apple TV platform. This will mean that Apple TV users will be able to receive, watch, schedule recordings, and enjoy all live digital terrestrial (OTA) broadcast channels, Internet channels as well as VoD services through TabletTV on their main televisions. […]
POST Luxembourg is launching a range of French and German channels – all available on any device – through its newly Cloud-TV platform developed by Netgem. The channels will be offered in addition to the best of VoD, popular catch-up TV services and other Internet Video Apps, regardless of whether the content originates from the […]
Keepixo, a provider of software-based head-end solutions for IPTV and OTT, and bitmovin, vendor of fastest cloud-encoding platform bitcodin and HTML5/Flash MPEG-DASH and HLS video player bitdash, are providing an end-to-end demonstration of Microsoft PlayReady protection over MPEG-DASH at IBC. The demonstration is based on a Keepixo video encoder performing multibitrate transcoding and applying PlayReady […]
Rovi has released findings from a sponsored survey of pay-TV and OTT content subscribers in the US, Europe, and Asia. The study aimed to uncover trends in viewer behaviour related to discovery, search, and recommendations for entertainment content and programming. But, above all, the survey revealed