Advanced Television

Middleware

Media Excel, Verimatrix accelerate OTT service delivery

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 […]

April 14, 2011

Lyfe develops virtual STB

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 […]

April 13, 2011

New partnership generates ‘IPTV-in-a-box’ solution

Breeze Technologies, the MPEG and IPTV solutions developer, represented exclusively by Imago in Europe, has formed a new partnership with French IPTV middleware provider Vianeos, which will allow the two companies to deliver an ‘IPTV in a box’ solution. The agreement was finalised at last month’s IP&TV World Forum and brings together Breeze Technologies’ TVIUM […]

April 12, 2011

Prisa selects Envivio for video processing and delivery

Envivio, provider of live and on-demand multi-screen IP video processing and delivery solutions, has announced that its 4Caster C4 multi-profile video encoders are delivering the content driving the new “DIGITAL+ a la carta” and “DIGITAL+ Videoclub” OTT VOD and linear TV service from Prisa TV, the leading pay-TV operator in Spain. DIGITAL+ a la carta […]

April 12, 2011

Azuki Media Everywhere brings video to mobile devices

Azuki Systems, a specialist in the delivery of video to any device over any network at Internet scale, has announced the availability of Azuki Media Everywhere, a solution that enables service providers to deliver on the promise of TV Everywhere. Azuki Media Everywhere allows cable operators to expand their reach and stream premium video across […]

April 6, 2011

Google TV app for Android

The next iteration of Android, ‘Ice Cream’, will bring Google TV and smartphones and tablets onto one Android platform, according to reports. The addition of Android’s host of apps to the TV platform will be a huge boost, and something that no other television service can yet offer.

April 4, 2011

RESEARCH: Social media does boost TV

Marketers are increasingly spending time, money and creativity to reach their audiences in non-traditional ways.  A 24/7 Wall St./Harris Poll on Social Media and Television has found that many Americans are participating in this type of interactions.  Among online US adults, two in five say they have gone online or utilised social media to comment, […]

March 31, 2011

Verimatrix and SMiT partner on hybrid security solutions

Verimatrix has announced an extended partnership with SMiT that pairs ViewRight cardless security with an advanced CI+ CAM design. The combination of Verimatrix security and the SMiT CI+ CAM platform enables a new range of advance revenue security solutions for the wide range of connected TV and other devices that support this new expansion standard. […]

March 30, 2011

Verimatrix and SMiT partner on cardless CI+ CAM hybrid security solutions

Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, has announced an extended partnership with SMiT that pairs ViewRight cardless security with an advanced CI+ CAM design. The combination of Verimatrix security and the high performance SMiT CI+ CAM platform enables a new range of advance revenue security […]

March 30, 2011

Virgin Media wins appeal over Rovi EPG patent

Virgin Media has won an appeal ruling confirming it didn’t infringe European patents for interactive programme guides held by Rovi’s Gemstar-TV Guide International because the patents were deemed invalid. The ruling by a three-judge panel in the Court of Appeal in London upholds a lower court decision from 2009 that two of Gemstar’s three patents […]

March 29, 2011