September 29, 2008

New Forensic Watermarks Target VoD Piracy

by Alan Harten

Subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, Cinea, has joined forces with Harmonic and NDS with the intention of creating a new integrated video-on-demand (VOD) solution, which will utilise Cinea’s existing Running Marks watermarking technology, Harmonic’s VOD platform, and NDS’s conditional access solution VideoGuard.
The idea of combing these three components is to produce a highly effective watermarking […]



September 26, 2008

IPTV revenues set to quadruple by 2012

by David Masters

Global subscriptions to internet Protocol television (IPTV) are set to hit 19.6 million by the end of this year, up 64.1% compared to 2007.
New research by Gartner projects IPTV revenues for 2008 to hit $4.5 billion.
This is a huge increase on the 2007 total of $2.7 billion.
Over the next four years subscriptions are expected to […]



September 26, 2008

Will IPTV Ever Be Viable?

by Alan Harten

‘IPTV Business Models: Profit and Loss in the Telco TV Space’ is the title of a new report from media analysts Screen Digest.
It delves into the future for IPTV in 26 European States.
They see a mad scramble by providers to differentiate themselves from their competitors.
Despite its early promise of a big reduction in […]



September 25, 2008

RipCode V5 Video Appliance Twice the Volume of V4

by Alan Harten

RipCode have launched what it terms its new flagship, the RipCode V5 Video Transcode and Transrate Appliance.
This takes over from the V4 for media conversion solutions. The V5 boasts twice as much video processing capacity as its forerunner.
The V5 is intended for use in producing very large volumes of video files at the same […]



September 25, 2008

Harmonic Launches DiviCom Ion AVC HD Encoder

by Alan Harten

Harmonic Inc has launched their new DiviCom Ion MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) high definition (HD) encoder.
This is the company’s latest solution for HD video constant bit-rate (CBR).
It is an IP-based encoder that is intended mainly for use with IPTV deployments, and can also be utilised with other switched video delivery apps.
The company says that […]



September 25, 2008

Teleste Believes Hybrid TV is the Solution

by Alan Harten

Teleste is looking to a harmonious future where existing providers, such as cable and satellite, can live alongside emerging IPTV.
They also believe that there will be a third option, a marriage of IPTY and traditional systems, a Hybrid TV system that takes the best of all methods of broadcasting.
Their new hybrid TV solution will […]



September 25, 2008

Next Level Internet TV From Inuk and Move Networks

by Alan Harten

Two companies have joined forces in no less a venture than revolutionising the Internet television experience.
Move Networks, the Internet television services provider, and triple-play service provider Inuk Networks, have hatched a cunning plan to take Internet TV forward to the next level.
They basically intend to integrate their services to provide a fully rounded and […]



September 25, 2008

CodecSys AVC, Now Six Times More Compression

by Alan Harten

Last week’s IBC in Amsterdam saw a flurry of activity, not least of all in announcements from companies.
One of those was from Broadcast International, who were letting the world know about their CodecSys AVC, which they claim to be the first Cell Broadband Engine based broadcast-quality video encoder.
They new system will give content providers […]



September 24, 2008

IPTV is About To Boom

by Alan Harten

It’s official, there is to be a big push to widen the availability and recognition of IPTV services.
One of the problems with getting the system to the starving TV masses has always been a lack of compatible specifications that unify the business into one viable market.
Now the Open IPTV Forum intends to change that, […]



September 24, 2008

Livestation Adds Deutsche Welle TV Over broadband

by Alan Harten

Germany’s main TV and radio export is Deutsche Welle.
It broadcasts to 22 million people in its native German and in English, around the world via satellite and cable TV.
Deutsche Well was a pioneer of worldwide news stations, along with English language news stations such as BBC worldwide and CNN.
Now Livestation is going to […]



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