New entrant AirTies looks to tidy up STB networking
June 23, 2010 by Julian Clover
Recent years have seen the emergence of a number of new manufacturers into the receiver market; Humax, Samsung, Kaon and ADB have all successfully made their mark. They have now been joined by AirTies, an Istanbul-based firm formed in February 2004 by a management and technical team from Silicon Valley. Read the Story »
Conax “follows the money”
June 9, 2010 by Chris Dziadul
Conax used the occasion of the Telenor Broadcast Day late last month to announce the forthcoming launch of the Italian Europa 7 DTT platform, for which it will provide conditional access. Bertit Svendsen, Conax’s CEO, said it would be a national service employing DVB-T2 technology and offer its viewers eight HD channels. Read the Story »
Canvas still on the artist’s easel
March 31, 2010 by Julian Clover
However advanced the technologies behind Canvas turn out to be, there is a danger that the UK becomes increasingly insular in its fusion of linear television and broadband-delivered content.
So it fell to an international member of the audience at the IPTV World Forum’s opening session to ask what the difference was between Canvas and HbbTV, the Franco-German consortium that emerged last year, but has subsequently dampened expectations. Read the Story »
Dutch and German cablers embrace CI Plus
January 6, 2010 by Robert Briel
Cable operators in The Netherlands and Germany are now embracing CI Plus. Following the announcement by Kabel Deutschland KDG, Germany’s largest cable operator, that it plans to launch CI Plus in the first half of the year, it looks like becoming the standard for cable tuners. Read the Story »
Tandberg becomes Ericsson’s new screen
December 9, 2009 by Julian Clover
There is something about the telecoms environment that sets it apart from the remainder of the television sector. That is to say, it often feels that there is more in common between cable and satellite than there is between cable and IPTV. Read the Story »
Just how much of an issue is Huffman?
November 25, 2009 by Julian Clover
It is one of those demonstrations that have filled trade show PowerPoints for many a long year: the ability to allow the consumer to make a specified number of recordings from a single piece of content. Read the Story »
Brightcove moves to level 4
November 25, 2009 by Julian Clover
Brightcove, the provider of online video applications for the publishing and television industries, has announced a new platform release. Read the Story »
Sky extension Core to OpenTV
November 11, 2009 by Julian Clover
OpenTV’s CEO Ben Bennett has added some colour to the recent agreement with BSkyB that saw the satcaster license new patents and intellectual property rights from the middleware provider. Although Sky uses News Corp’s own technology company for NDS for functionality on the Sky+ PVR and EPG development, it is still reliant on the OpenTV middleware. Read the Story »
JPEG 2000 challenging MPEG delivery
October 14, 2009 by Julian Clover
T-VIPS is one of a number of companies to have picked up on the expertise to have come out of Tandberg Television as the company edged away from its Norwegian roots in the early 2000s. Read the Story »
Set-top futures
September 3, 2009 by Julian Clover
A shift in the role of the set-top box manufacturer has been notable over the past few years. While there has been a desire to make receivers more widely available at a retail level, the technical demands from the platform operators have meant that the number of manufacturers assigned to a particular product has actually reduced. Read the Story »
