July 18, 2008

Open IPTV Forum welcomes Thomson

by Jan Harris

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

by Alan Harten

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

by Alan Harten

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

by Alan Harten

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

by Jan Harris

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 11, 2008

Diva Offering VOD Distribution of Movies

by Alan Harten

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

by Grant Draper

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

by Grant Draper

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

by Jan Harris

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, […]



July 8, 2008

Amir Khan Fight Live On IPTV

by Jan Harris

On June 21st, Amir Khan’s Commonwealth lightweight title fight against Michael Gomez in the UK, was watched live on IPTV by viewers in North America.
Ether Digital, assisted by encoding partner Garland Partners Ltd, streamed live video of the match over the Internet, using the Viewcast Niagara®Pro digital video encoding platform.
The 8-hour broadcast was a […]



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