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Editorial Insight
Communications Solutions for Everyone
The satellite communications sector is good at solving problems. Most of the time it’s for customers, but one of the best stories I heard on the IBC exhibit floor was from a company that solved a problem for itself ...More»
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From The Show Floor
EBU Exec: Broadcasters Have ‘Suffered Profoundly’
This has been a challenging year for Europe’s top broadcasters. With an economic credit crunch, it has been a tough environment, particularly as there has been a slowdown in terms of overall advertising revenues. Broadcasters “had been heavily impacted by the credit crunch” and have “suffered profoundly in their operations,” said Lieven Vermaele, technical director of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) ...More»
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Industry Briefs
Bridge Technologies to Provide IP Installation Hardware to Virgin Media
Virgin Media will partner with Bridge Technologies to roll out an all-IP broadcast installation at its 54 of Virgin Media’s headends and four core IP sites to complement its existing Video-on-Demand (VoD) IP infrastructure, Virgin Media announced ..More»
GlobeCast Partners With Satlink to Deliver UEFA Soccer Coverage
GlobeCast renewed and expanded its contract with UEFA to provide HD coverage of the UEFA Champions Soccer League and HD and SD coverage of the UEFA Europa Soccer League to non-European rights holders, GlobeCast announced ...More»
Tandberg Hopes to Drive All-HD Migration with New Compression System
Tandberg Television is set to reveal the industry’s first MPEG-4 AVC HD 4:2:2 system solution for the contribution and distribution market, the company announced. The new system includes an encoder and professional receiver that support up to 1080p50/60 HD encoding with 10-bit precision ...More»
Nagravision to Secure Spanish Pay-TV Platform
Nagravision has won a new conditional access (CA) deal in Spain, securing the TDT Premium pay-TV digital terrestrial television (DTT) horizontal platform operated by Spanish audiovisual network operator Abertis Telecom ...More»
NDS to Enter Internet-Enabled TV Market
Conditional access and middleware solutions provider NDS is joining forces with Access Systems Europe Holdings to allow customers to access pay-TV and free-to-air (FTA) channels on connected TVs without the need for a set-top box, NDS announced ...More»
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Executive Insight
.jpg) Orange Exec Sees Content Opportunities Everywhere
France Telecom (Orange) has been one of the most successful telcos adapting to the video environment, attracting a healthy number of subscribers for both its DTH and IPTV services in France. Herve Payan, the company’s senior vice president of content services, discusses the company’s video strategy and plans to develop its “content everywhere” strategy ...More»
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