TV history is to be made with the screening of a head-spinning new Samsung ad which will be the longest single shot commercial ever screened in the UK – featuring nothing but a washing machine cycle. At three minutes and 20 seconds long, and preceded by a bespoke Channel 4 branded introduction, the advert will […]
Babcock’s Media Services business has appointed Scott Rose as its new Director of Multi-Platform and Technology. Rose has held numerous leadership roles in the broadcast communications industry for companies such as Kingston Communications and Arqiva. Most recently, he was the senior director of product management for Grass Valley with responsibility for the content delivery product […]
Panasonic Avionics Corporation (Panasonic), a global player in inflight entertainment and connectivity (IFEC), has introduced a major advance in inflight connectivity with the entry into service of its first High Throughput Satellite (HTS) capacity over the Pacific Ocean. The EUTELSAT 172B satellite, which launched in June, is operated by Eutelsat Communications. Leveraging its unique design, […]
Sports clubs’ competition is now taking place on the digital field. This weekend, the Italian football club got one step ahead by launching a series of SmartReplay interactive videos that let fans make their own highlights. AS Roma fans can now make their own highlights in a new video experience called SmartReplay. When the SmartReplay […]
Witbe, an expert in Quality of Experience (QoE) test and monitoring, and Divitel, independent system integrator specialised in video and TV, have become partners to offer managed testing and monitoring services for customers in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Through this alliance, broadcasters, operators and OTT providers will be able to benefit […]
The 20th anniversary of Africa’s largest tech-focused event may have come and gone, but beyond the record-breaking number of visitors, exhibitors and speakers and new launches and cutting-edge products this year, the outcomes make for a lasting impression. AfricaCom was once focused solely on the telecommunications market, but now that conversation has successfully shifted to […]
Elisa, Finland’s largest telecoms operator, has partnered with Unified Streaming, a player in cross-platform video-streaming technologies, to deploy late transmuxing. This on-the-fly conversion of video files directly on cache nodes rather than on centralized servers reduces internal streaming traffic and overall storage needs. With webserver plug-in Unified Origin integrated into the workflow, Elisa has essentially pushed streaming to the […]
The launch of the third season of “Gomorrah – The Series” premiered in 325 Italian cinemas on November 14th and 15th with Vision Distribution, an operation never seen before in Italy for a TV show. “Gomorrah – The Series”, which brought the first episodes of the third season of the Sky original series produced by […]
Mediaproxy, a provider of software-based IP broadcast solutions for compliance, monitoring and analysis, has announced that Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, has chosen its LogServer software solution for its London and Singapore facilities. Globecast helps customers to manage their content and make it available wherever required, by anyone required. The company provides agile […]
Minnetonka Audio, a part of the TV Solutions Group of the Telos Alliance, has announced that its SurCode for Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 Encoder is now available for Adobe Creative Cloud. The tightly integrated plug-in provides Adobe Creative Cloud users with full encoding support for Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus audio formats. The Dolby-licensed […]