Advanced Television

Regulation

CI Plus launches new ECP for UHD

CI Plus LLP, the trust authority for CI Plus, has announced the launch of a new CI Plus Enhanced Content Protection (ECP) Security Level designed to protect the next generation of premium content and UHD TV. The new CI Plus ECP Security Level is based upon the recent DVB v1.4 specification and is designed to […]

September 10, 2018

NAGRA, SPORT TV anti-piracy initiative

Content protection and multiscreen television solutions provider NAGRA and Portuguese premium sports network SPORT TV, are joining forces in the fight against streaming piracy of live sports content. SPORT TV, which owns the exclusive rights to Portugal’s football league, leverages NAGRA Anti-Piracy Services to protect the premium sports network from illegal live streaming of soccer […]

September 7, 2018By Colin Mann

Licensees fined for Sky Sports infringements

Two licensees from Skelmersdale in the northwest of England have been found guilty of ten offices of dishonest reception of a television transmission by showing Sky Sports to customers without a commercial agreement from Sky. Sara Jones and Karl Jones of the Old Toby Inn in Skelmersdale have been ordered to pay £10,908 (€12,156) after […]

September 7, 2018By Colin Mann

Newzroom Africa must be open about contract terms

Newzroom Afrika has been confirmed as the successful news channel bidder after DStv pulled the plug on Afro Worldview, previously owned by the Guptas as the highly controversial ANN7 news channel. Commercial terms for the carriage have not been released, although there is strong pressure in South Africa for the contract terms to be made […]

September 6, 2018By Chris Forrester

IMAX, DTS partner for IMAX Enhanced programme

Entertainment technologist IMAX Corporation and audio specialist DTS have partnered for the next-generation of home entertainment with the launch of the IMAX Enhanced programme. The new certification and licensing programme combines the highest-end consumer electronics products with IMAX digitally re-mastered 4K HDR content and DTS audio technologies to offer consumers a new level of quality […]

September 6, 2018

EU to force local quotas on Netflix & Amazon

The European Commission (EC) is looking to set a 30 per cent “local quota” on video streaming operators such as Netflix and Amazon Studios for their European output. Reportedly the EC will vote on the proposal in December. Equity analysts at investment bank Exane/BNPP, quoting a Variety story, say that the new rules will not […]

September 5, 2018By Chris Forrester

Spain: Financial aid for new DTT migration

The Spanish Government will finance DTT migration with grants – to be specified in 2019 – to citizens and TV operators. State Secretary for Digital Advance, Francisco Polo, said the grants will be included in the next State Budget. The migration will start in January 2019 and will be initially completed in 2020 if no […]

September 5, 2018From David Del Valle in Madrid

eSports “too violent” for Olympics

Thomas Bach, the President of the International Olympic Committee, has deemed eSports as being too violent to be part of the Olympics. Bach said the “so-called killer games” which promote violence or discrimination cannot be accepted into the Olympic Games. “If you have egames where it’s about killing somebody, this cannot be brought into line […]

September 4, 2018

EU film creatives want Copyright Directive delivered

During the 75th Venice International Film Festival, some 165 screenwriters and directors across Europe have come together in the “Venice Declaration” to call on the European Parliament to adopt legislation that puts authors at the heart of copyright and of the European cultural and creative industries, including online. On September 12th, the members of the […]

September 3, 2018

Social Media: Free to be bad and mad?

Freedom of the press is often cited as a basic requirement of a genuinely free and democratic society. And it is true that a universal early symptom of advancing authoritarianism is curbs on a free press: look at Russia, look at Turkey, look at any historical example of a totalitarian takeover of any previously free […]

August 31, 2018