itv, DTV, Streaming
Alca-Lu helps Codetel launch IPTV service
Alcatel-Lucent has announced that Compania Dominicana de Telefonos (Codetel), a telecommunications operator in the Dominican Republic, has launched a nationwide IPTV offering, aimed at providing subscribers across the country with ‘high-quality’ TV programming, video-on-demand and other multimedia content services. Improved features include picture in picture, karaoke entertainment and digital video recording. The IPTV service – [...]
NDS powers Mediascape’s DTH service
NDS, a provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, has deployed a complete end-to-end pay-TV broadcast system for Cignal Digital TV, a satellite-delivered digital TV platform in the Philippines recently launched by Mediascape. Mediascape has deployed a suite of advanced technologies from NDS. The solutions that comprise Mediascape’s new system include VideoGuard conditional access, MediaHighway [...]
Lattelecom selects ECI Telecom’s GPON solution
ECI Telecom, a provider of networking infrastructure solutions optimised for next-generation network (NGN) migration, has been selected by Lattelecom, the incumbent operator in Republic of Latvia, to build a high-speed FTTH network. Lattelecom selected ECI’s Hi-FOCuS Multiservice Access Node (MSAN) for its Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) capabilities to build the network. ECI is collaborating [...]
Note and Norway’s Otrum expand collaboration
Note Nykoping-Skanninge has been selected as partner for the volume production of HD cards for Otrum’s new generation of hotel TV systems. Otrum of Norway is a provider of interactive TV solutions for the hotel industry. Note’s Nearsourcing business model is founded on three key segments — starting Nearsourcing centres close to customers, introducing the [...]
Abertis, Qualcomm to promote mobile broadcast services
Qualcomm, a developer of advanced wireless technologies, products and services, and Abertis Telecom, a telecommunications infrastructure and services operator in Europe, will collaborate to bring a live MediaFLO broadcast mobile TV demonstration to Mobile World Congress, 16-19 February, 2009. At this year’s conference and for the first time, the MediaFLO network will broadcast both at [...]
Hitachi delivers CinemaStar C5K500 for digital video, surveillance apps
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) has announced the CinemaStar C5K500, a 2.5-inch hard drive with up to 500GB of audio video storage capacity designed for digital video applications that require compact design and low power usage. This fourth-generation small form factor CinemaStar drive claims to deliver a balance of capacity, cool operation and ruggedness [...]
Hitachi partners with Falcon IP/Complete
Hitachi Telecom (USA) has teamed up with Falcon IP/Complete of Malden, Missouri, to provide a fully integrated MPEG-4 IPTV solution for service providers who are implementing Hitachi’s AMN1220 Gigabit Passive Optical Network Fibre to the Premises solution. Hitachi Telecom (USA) has teamed up with Falcon IP/Complete of Malden, Missouri, to provide a fully integrated MPEG-4 [...]
Dish Network expands local high definition markets
Earlier this year, Dish Network announced plans to enhance its HD programming line-up and hopes to surpass the 100 national HD channel mark on 1 August, 2008. Dish Network, a pay-TV provider and the digital transition player, has announced the addition of high definition local channels in Beaumont – Port Arthur, Texas. Dish Network now [...]
Backspace offers new mobile IPTV solutions
The Backspace solution allows users to watch the same content and programming as they can see on their television set: live television in addition to VoD.
Verizon FiOS TV customers can access programming information via website
Soon, customers will also be able to use the site to programme their digital video recorders (DVR), among other features, the company said.
