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Open IPTV Forum welcomes Thomson
Thomson, a French leader in video solutions, has become the latest member of the growing Open IPTV Forum.
The Forum is an alliance of IPTV industry professionals, dedicated to developing end-to-end open specifications for IPTV services and offering consumers a plug- and-play experience.
Thomson will add its engineering resources to the forum, and its expertise […]
July 18, 2008
New DivX Video Converter From MainConcept
MainConcept GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of DivX, Inc. and one of the world’s leading providers of video and audio codecs, as well as software development kits to the broadcast, film and consumer electronic markets, today announced that it has released the next step of its Cross Platform Encoder application called MainConcept™ Reference 1.5, in a […]
July 17, 2008
StreamGuys To Deliver Philippine TV
StreamGuys, Inc., a streaming media and content delivery provider based in Northern California, is now handling content delivery for ABS-CBN’s IPTV service in Canada, Europe, Japan and South Korea.
ABS-CBN Broadcasting is the largest integrated media and entertainment corporation in the Philippines, with 35 television stations, 19 owned-and operated AM and FM radio stations, and […]
July 16, 2008
High Bandwidth Network Processor GPON from ECI
ECI Telecom has announced that it will showcase its much anticipated high-bandwidth gigabit passive optical network (GPON) optical line termination (OLT) with a built-in network processor at the Broadband World Forum Asia Conference which this year moves to Hong Kong.
The event is set to run from 15 -18, July 2008 with many prestigious guest […]
July 15, 2008
Spirent ensures delivery of 200 IPTV Channels
The University of Exeter is investing £5.5m to upgrade its cross-campus network, including the provision of 1Gbps bandwidth to the desktop, and 200 IPTV channels showing lecture material and other information relevant to courses of study.
Spirent Communications is playing a key role in the upgrade by assessing the switching and routing capabilities of the […]
July 14, 2008
Operators Support Two Opposing Technologies
Having to face up to ever increasing and varied competition in the cable market itself, as well as newcomers such as Telco’s all fighting for TV viewers, the traditionally set-in-their-ways and unwilling to change cable operators are becoming increasingly uncomfortable.
According to researcher IMS, set-top boxes (STBs) will reach 90.3m unit shipments worldwide in 2009, up […]
July 11, 2008
Diva Offering VOD Distribution of Movies
Diva.AG is a digital distribution solution for award winning independent movies and true classics.
Diva stands for Digital Video Access offering video content to new audiences worldwide.
They license VOD (“Video on Demand”) rights from the producers and distributors and then compile all the metadata for every piece of content.
They then store the content […]
July 11, 2008
Velocix Aquires RawFlow’s P2P Streaming
RawFlow’s P2P streaming technology has now been officially licensed to Velocix(tm), according to a recent announcement, which will see the company operate with sole responsibility for the distribution and back up of the RawFlow’s Intelligent Content Delivery.
The Velocix Live Streaming brand will be the basis on which the ICD product will be marketed.
This has a […]
July 11, 2008
Velocix and Kontiki Unite
Two major corporate bodies, Kontiki and Velocix, have announced their partnership in the development of web delivery of large digital assets, including video, software and games.
The two companies hope the wealth of knowledge they possess between them, will show within their future developments.
The partnership will see Velocix providing the hosted version of the Kontiki […]
July 9, 2008
On Demand in VOD deal with OTE
London-based On Demand Group has been selected by the Hellenic Telecommunication Organisation S.A. (OTE), of Greece, to provide outsourced video-on-demand services.
OTE, Greece’s largest telco, is extending its services with the provision of IPTV to its customers.
The deal, to work with OTE on its video-on-demand service, marks On Demand’s expansion into the Greek market, […]