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Adobe and BBC in iPlayer deal
Mac and Linux users should soon be able to download TV programmes with the BBC’s iPlayer.
PC users have been able to do this for some time, and now a platform-neutral download client is being launched to extend the service to other platforms.
The news was released by Erik Huggers, the BBC’s director of future […]
October 10, 2008
New CableLabs 2.0 Specs Met By IMAKE
CableLabs 2.0 specifications are a set of spec’s that are intended to unify some aspects of transport and storage of metadata.
The hope is that content creation and distribution to content providers will benefit from a solution that standardises a system that is at present somewhat varied.
The industry as a whole backed the proposals, as […]
October 9, 2008
Another Big Indian job For Optibase and UTStarcom
Another Indian IPTV company have selected Optibase to supply their encoder needs.
Optibase has been chosen by United Telecoms Ltd, Bangalore and their sub-provider UTStarcom for their Goa Broadband Network in the highly popular tourist region.
The streaming platform H.264 from Optibase will be utilized by UTStarcom with their IPTV solution known as RollingStream.
The intention […]
October 8, 2008
Kangaroo decision delayed until February
The Competition Commission’s decision on Project Kangaroo, a joint venture between the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 to establish a single platform for on-demand, internet TV, has been put back from 14 December 2008 to 8 February 2009, to give the broadcasters extra time to supply documentation.
This means that the service will not be […]
October 7, 2008
Livestation Want to Bring in More Interactive TV
Livestation is increasing its road towards live TV via the internet with a new plan to drive viewers towards the websites of its partners such as Al Jazeera English, BBC Arabic, BBC World News and BBC World Service radio, Bloomberg Television, C-SPAN.
The new intuitive will highlight the TV stations’ interactive features. Just recently Al Jazeera […]
October 3, 2008
iPlayer goes mobile
Nokia launches its new flagship mobile handset, the N96, today, and as well as impressive photo, gaming and video functionality, users can also run the BBC’s iPlayer through an embedded application.
This allows them to download BBC content for a week.
Nokia also plans to roll out the iPlayer service to its N78, N95 and N96 […]
October 3, 2008
Tilgin Offer Full Service Routing, Streamlining IPTV Connections
Home gateway solutions often lack any real flexibility, especially in the area of multi-play services.
Very often they are hard connected via IP set-tops, not to the home network but to the gateway.
This works reasonably well, but it is not always easy to share content between IP set-tops, PCs and media devices and distribution to […]
October 2, 2008
Sony BMG gets Netvue IPTV
Netvue has installed an IPTV system at the new UK headquarters of Sony BMG Music Entertainment in Kensington, London.
The IPTV system streams live broadcast television channels from Freeview and Satellite using Exterity TVgateway and Pro-Encoder products, distributed across Sony BMG’s local area network. The channels are available for viewing on LCD screens all around […]
October 1, 2008
US Ice hockey Has New Asian TV Home
Hong Kong based All Sports Network (ASN) have acquired the rights to broadcast US hockey throughout Asia.
The deal with The National Hockey League (NHL) gives the company blanket coverage of games on all formats, including HDTV and IPTV, in very large regions of the continent.
There are around 130 games per season, with highlights that […]
October 1, 2008
DS2 Nominated For Prestigious Award
Based in sunny Spain, DS2 is a supplier of high-speed Powerline communications technology.
The company has now received some recognition for its work, in the form of the International Engineering Consortium (IEC) nomination for its InfoVision Enabling Silicon and Component Level Technologies Award.
They have been nominated for their Aitana chipset, a 200Mbps Power line Communication […]