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IBC: Motorola highlights end-to-end solutions and increasing choiceStands 1.431/1.144
Motorola is introducing its Home & Networks Mobility business at IBC, showcasing its newest video technology and presenting its vision for the content and delivery market. The company will be highlighting how a series of acquisitions in the past 12 months (including Broadbus, Tut, and Modulus) has strengthened the company’s position with an end-to-end solution for the service provider/aggregator wanting to deliver a range of video content and services into the home and to mobiles. |
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IBC: Dolby offers HD IPTV demonstration of Dolby Digital Plus Stand 2.218
Dolby will be demonstrating real-world applications of Dolby Digital Plus and other next-generation audio-enhancing products and technologies at IBC. The company will demonstrate Dolby Digital Plus on HD with an end-to-end IPTV Dolby Digital Plus broadcast. |
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IBC: Secure, turnkey pay-per-view for small IPTV networks Stand 1.529
Two Norwegian start-up companies aim to prove to IBC delegates that it is possible to deliver Internet-based television that is easy to deploy and easy to protect within the same system. Secustream Technologies, which offers streaming media content protection, and SnapTV, a turnkey IPTV provider for network owners, have deployed the new SecuShow DRM technology for streaming-based trials in Norway and say they will unveil the results in Amsterdam. |
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IBC 2007: more preview informationIf you are attending IBC 2007, here is a preview of what the following companies will be highlighting (in some cases, you can find further information about their activities in the news stories): Conax, Grass Valley, Harmonic Inc, Irdeto, Nagravision, NDS, Scientific Atlanta, Scopus Video Networks, Skyline Communications, TANDBERG Television, Tektronix and Viaccess... |
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SES ASTRA launches its neutral digital satellite platform, entavio Satellite owner/operator SES ASTRA has launched its new ‘entavio’ platform. The service to digital satellite households in Germany comprises about 500 digital TV and radio channels, which continue to be distributed for free, and the technical access to Pay TV for a monthly flat rate of EUR 1.99. The first Pay TV operator to offer its packages via entavio is Premiere, which will distribute its new Premiere programme Premiere Star on the system, among other things. |
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Uruguay adopts DVB-T and DVB-HUruguay has decided to adopt the DVB-T and DVB-H standards for its fixed and mobile Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) broadcasting, a decision hailed (not surprisingly) by the DVB Project. The decision was announced late August after a year long evaluation by the National Commission of Free-to-Air Digital Terrestrial Television. |
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Widevine to protect Freewire IPTV service for PC and set-top boxInuk Networks, the triple-play service provider behind the Freewire IPTV service in the UK, which is aimed initially at student accommodation in universities, has chosen Widevine Technologies to supply its content protection. An important feature of the Freewire service is the ability to deliver broadcast-quality IPTV onto Personal Computers as well as TVs, especially on university LANs. |
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NDS licenses Cinea’s forensic watermarking for its CA and DRMCinea, Inc., a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, has announced that NDS Group is licensing its Running Marks forensic watermarking technology for use in its extensive range of CA and DRM solutions for VOD and live broadcast TV. This provides NDS' customers with the ability to embed invisible, unique product IDs in individual video streams, allowing tracking of pirated content back to its source. |
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Siemens prepares BBC coding and muxing for digital switchoverThe BBC has commissioned Siemens IT Solutions and Services to design, build and operate a new coding and multiplexing infrastructure, delivering a managed service until 2015. The project will enable the UK public broadcaster to achieve the roll-out of new digital networks for switchover. It is said to be one of the largest and most complex coding and multiplexing projects worldwide. |
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Telenet expands its DataMiner platform for return path and UPS monitoringBelgian cable operator Telenet has expanded its DataMiner network management system for both return path monitoring across its entire HFC network infrastructure and monitoring of its Uninterruptible Power Supplies in the recently acquired UPC Belgium network. With DataMiner from Skyline Communications, the return path monitoring will be fully integrated in a single consolidated environment with the monitoring of other important HFC network assets, such as optical transmitter/receivers and optical nodes. |
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Thomson implements content watermarking within VOD serverContent owners and network operators offering Video on Demand services can identify content on a per transaction basis using a combination of Thomson's Sapphire VOD server and NexGuard watermarking technology. Thomson says the new offering is a highly robust, end-to-end content tracking and piracy deterrence solution for VOD. |
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Taiwan broadcaster and mobile operators pilot DVB-H with ThomsonTaiwan's terrestrial broadcaster, Public Television Service Foundation (PTS), has selected Thomson's mobile TV solutions for a DVB-H pilot. Thomson's mobile TV encoders, DVB-H IP encapsulator, Electronic Service Guide server, clip playout server and interactive service platforms have already been integrated into PTS networks and are being used for DVB-H transmissions of three live channels and one music video channel. |
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Nagravision to protect commercial DVB-H in the PhilippinesDream Satellite TV, a brand of Philippine Multimedia System, Inc. (PMSI) has selected Nagravision Conditional Access to protect the content rights for its commercial deployment of DVB-H mobile TV services in the Philippines. PMSI plans to offer ten channels of programming initially, including one free channel. The service will be launched commercially by the end of this year, starting in Manila. |
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GlobeCast experimenting with uncompressed HD for rugby World CupGlobeCast is providing the end-to-end satellite and fibre contribution services for host broadcaster TVH and other major broadcasters during the 2007 IRB Rugby World Cup. The company says it will be experimenting with uncompressed HD signal transmission, something it describes as “an exciting development that promises to make life easier for telecoms [companies] wishing to transmit HD footage in a timely and cost-efficient manner.” |
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ARRIS marks its intent in next-generation video with SDV QAM deal at ComcastUS cable giant Comcast has selected ARRIS as one of two vendors to provide universal edge-QAM technology to support Switched Digital Video (the other is thought to be Harmonic Inc.). The deal represents a significant success for ARRIS as the company seeks to penetrate the video market, having established itself already as a leading supplier of data-over-cable solutions (Integrated CMTS’, cable modems,
E-MTAs, channel bonding and Modular CMTS’, among other things). |
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Cox selects BigBand for Switched Digital VideoCox Communications has selected BigBand Networks to provide a Switched Digital Video (SDV) solution that will help harvest bandwidth that can then be used for a dramatic expansion of HDTV across the US. The cable operator (the third largest in the United States) has begun deployment in its Northern Virginia market. It will eventually be used in multiple systems including both Motorola and Scientific Atlanta set-top box environments. |
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IMS predicts different mobile TV standards to dominate regionsIMS Research is predicting that there will continue to be multiple broadcast mobile TV standards worldwide, but one dominant standard in each major region. The company forecasts that by 2011 the Americas region will account for 60 per cent of worldwide FLO-based subscribers while Europe will account for 61pc of worldwide DVB-H/DVB-SH subscribers. The company expects T-DMB to consolidate in Korea and ISDB-T to do the same in Japan. |
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Predictive content recommendations for IPTVItalian company Neptuny is launching a predictive content recommendation system for IPTV operators at IBC, designed to help viewers select the right content to suit their tastes. The system, called ContentWise, harnesses user ratings as well as content metadata to generate the recommendations. Where users have not rated content proactively, the software uses information about whether other users with similar viewing interests watched the whole film (e.g.) or stopped it before the end. |
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The Americas is the new IPTV frontier for ADBAdvanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) is celebrating two significant orders in the Americas region. Telefónica Chile, the first telco to deploy IPTV in Latin America, has selected its ADB-3800W SD set-top box, while North Dakota Telephone Company has taken its ADB-3800W HD set-top, marking the first commercial IPTV deployment for the Geneva-based vendor in North America. |
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Ready to ship and on display at IBC: Scopus’ MPEG-4 HD encoderScopus Video Networks will demonstrate its MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) HD encoding platform at IBC to coincide with its commercial availability. Part of the Universal Encoder 9000 series, the product will encode one channel of HDTV in a 1RU configuration and is available with DVB-S2 modulation built-in, reflecting the company’s heritage in content contribution and distribution. Scopus expects early customers to use the new encoder for satellite distribution and direct-to-home satellite TV. |
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Standards and interoperability boosts for FLO mobile broadcast technology A complete set of FLO Series I, Series II and Series III Testing Specifications is now available to the market after the FLO Forum membership approved FLO Series II and FLO Series III Testing Plans. The FLO Forum, a group of nearly 90 companies that aims to standardise and promote the FLO broadcast mobile TV standard, describes the ratification as a significant milestone for interoperability. |
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MultiChoice preparing for push-VOD and HD-PVRMultiChoice South Africa (MCSA) is investigating high-definition Digital Video Recorder capabilities using OpenTV’s Core2 middleware and PVR2 software in combination with content security from Irdeto. OpenTV is set to act as system integrator on the project. MultiChoice is also preparing for push-VOD so it can ‘download’ popular content onto consumer hard-drives. |
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Social networking will dominate mobile UGC, according to JuniperSocial networking services will dominate a burgeoning market for mobile user-generated content (UGC), according to a new report from Juniper Research, the analyst and consulting company. Globally, end-user generated revenues from social networking, dating and personal content delivery services will increase from $572 million in 2007 to more than $5.7 billion in 2012, with social networking accounting for half the total by the end of the forecast period. |
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What role for IPTV in the Middle East?The Pay TV market in Middle East and Africa is predicted to grow by more than a third in five years, but will IPTV be part of this surge, who will pioneer it and in what form? The IPTV World Forum Middle East & Africa conference should provide some of the answers. Show preview follows... |
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Teleste adds Anevia’s headend/VOD systems to digital TV offeringTeleste has expanded the scope of its IPTV solution with an agreement to market the Flamingo DVB-to-IP gateways and Toucan VOD/network PVR servers from French company Anevia, which specialises in dense, software-based IP video solutions. Teleste will be displaying what is claimed to be an end-to-end digital TV package at IBC next month. |
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Targeted advertising: standing out from the crowdPhilip Hunter reports on how IPTV operators hope to make targeted advertising a unique selling point for their networks, opening the way for one-to-one relationships between advertiser and TV viewer. Cable is ready to respond with switched video using SDV and DOCSIS, while even satellite could make use of PVR advertising downloads. This feature is reproduced from the July/August issue of New Video Technology magazine. |
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