September 22, 2008

Swarmcast Commits to Continent With European Office

by Alan Harten

Swarmcast, is well known in the US and Asia as an online video streamer, but is less well known in continental Europe.
The company is hoping to change that by opening is first European base in Zurich, Switzerland.
It recently showed its wares in Europe for the first time at the IBC gathering in Amsterdam, where […]



September 17, 2008

Picture in Picture IPTV is On The Way

by Alan Harten

Apparently you asked for it, and now you have it, Tilgin has announced that it is now capable of delivering Picture in Picture services (PiP) for HD IPTV.
They company says that its Mood 400 IP Set-top Media Centre is now capable of offering the much requested facility.
PiP has been a popular feature on regular […]



September 16, 2008

Digisoft Offers Software Development Kit

by Alan Harten

Digisoft.tv is now offering a wider release of its much touted Software Development Kit (SDK), which works in conjunction with their own delivery platform known as DigiHost.
IPTV services can benefit from SDK by making use of its “toolset” that is very useful for developing interactive television applications known as iTV.
The company claim that this […]



September 15, 2008

BigBand’s Next Gen Personalised Media Services

by Alan Harten

The BigBand Media Services Platform, MSP2000, should prove useful to broadband service providers by allowing them to deliver more relevant advertising across cable, DSL, fibre and wireless access networks
BigBand Networks has set the introduction of a new network-based media processing platform for broadband service providers for early next year.
This will assist with the transition […]



September 10, 2008

IPTV will be Harmonized with New Measures

by Alan Harten

The Open IPTV Forum is an industry wide initiative that has a mission to develop an end-to-end solution to meet the demand for, and the widespread deployment of IPTV services, which is being seriously held back by interoperability among products.
The Forum has now managed to form what it believes to be a viable agreement and […]



September 9, 2008

Inlet Technologies appoints EMEA Director of Sales

by Jan Harris

Inlet Technologies, which provides encoding solutions for new media, has appointed Michael Murphy as its EMEA sales director.
Murphy, who will be based in London, will use his experience in product development, as well as sales and marketing, to help the company take advantage of the growing market for online video.
According to a new […]



September 5, 2008

Moving Media Opens New Expanded L.A. Studio & Encoding Facilities

by Nick Dimes

Leading video encoding specialist Moving Media is moving to a new specially expanded studio in Woodland Hills Los Angeles on September 1st 2008. The existing state-of-the-art facilities for encoding from tape to file and transcoding of existing digital assets, will be boosted by the addition of several new video capture / encode bays, and a […]



September 4, 2008

ITV to expand broadband content

by Jan Harris

Spurred on by the success of ‘The Gloryhunter’, ITV is planning to expand its made-for-broadband content.
The Gloryhunter, ITV’s first excursion into sports content made specifically for broadband distribution, is an online series for its football site.
It was watched over 10,000 in its first 20 days on the site.
The investment in broadband content is […]



August 27, 2008

Splash Media and Success University launch new platform

by Alan Harten

Splash Media is going to use its skills in the digital video publishing arena to move into the e-learning field.
They have joined forces with Success University to develop, create and distribute a new feature rich platform for students.
They are going to use their existing Video Based E-Learning (VBE) platform to develop an easy to […]



August 25, 2008

IPTV penetration to reach 5.2 million in CEE by 2013

by iptvworldforum

With numerous launches already under way and others due shortly, IPTV is starting to emerge as a realistic alternative platform to cable and satellite in some CEE countries.
Russia leads the region in terms of IPTV subscribers, although services such as O2 TV (Czech Republic), Elion (Estonia) and TPSA (Poland) are also making progress.
Telcos regard […]



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