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Editorial Insight
Companies See Opportunity as Broadcasting Landscape Changes
Upcoming changes in the broadcasting market are on the minds of many at IBC. The digital TV transition in the United States and the growing market for multi-platform broadcasting promise to have a fundamental impact on the traditional means of doing business. The transition to multiple content platforms, driven by the demands of today’s on-the-go consumers, already is changing the operations of some companies, and as content providers have to deliver their service across many ...More»
From The Show Floor
Polsat Looks to Triple Play to Expand Business
Cyfrowy Polsat, the largest DTH platform in Poland, hopes to become a major player on the Polish communications/media landscape by becoming “a triple-play or even a quadruple-play operator,” CEO Dominik Libicki said. Polsat began its life as a traditional satellite pay-TV operator and added mobile telephony services, launched Sept. 8 using a mobile virtual network operator business model. The bundling of mobile phone and pay-TV services is the first part of Polsat’s strategy to provide more services to customers ...More»
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Industry Briefs
OmniGlobe to Distribute Vipersat Network Products
OmniGlobe Networks EMEA has become an authorized reseller of Comtech EF Data’s Vipersat network products, OmniGlobe announced Sept. 10. Omniglobe promote and distribute the Vipersat product line to its customer base, which ...More»
NSR: Mobile TV Growth Driven by Broadcasters, Consumers
Mobile TV and mobile video services offered over broadcast and unicast distribution are projected to grow almost ten-fold from the end of 2007 to 2013, according to NSR. A combination of converging trends will allow mobile TV to experience considerable growth, from an estimated user base of more 57 million at the end of 2007 ..More»
Newtec Selects Altera to Provide Broadband FPGAs
Newtec has selected Altera Corp.’s Cyclone 2 field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) to deliver broadband services to its Sat3Play broadband terminal ...More»
Network Electronics Integrate Skyline Technology in Product Portfolio
Network Electronics integrated Skyline Communications’ DataMiner multi-vendor network management system with Network Electronics’ Flashlink, VikinX and Ventura product ranges, the ...More»
TigrisNet Selects iDirect Products for DVB-S2/ACM NetworK
TigrisNet has installed an iDirect Series 15000 universal hub and 50 Evolution X3 satellite routers to power an enhanced DVB-S2 network with adaptive coding and modulation (ACM) for corporate and government customers in Iraq and the Middle ...More»
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Executive Insight
EC Commissioner Assesses Changing Landscape
The European broadcast landscape has seen unprecedented change in recent years. With more competition than ever before in television markets as well as new consumer behaviors emerging in the way we consume content, new regulatory issues have emerged. Areas such as mobile TV are now becoming a more important part of the broadcast equation and thus present a new set of regulatory issues. One of the most influential people in determining broadcast and media regulation in this changing landscape is Viviane Reding, European commissioner for information society and media. Reding spoke with IBC e-Daily about what the European Commission can do to ensure that Europe’s citizens have access to the very latest media services. IBC e-Daily: What is the significance of the recent decision regarding pan-European licensing for mobile satellite services? Reding: Given that the European space industry holds 40 percent of world markets for manufacturing, launching and operating satellites, clearly the ... More»
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