TV
Sony improves its Bravia LCD HDTV line-up
Bolstering the recently announced 2009 Bravia LCD HDTV line-up, Sony Electronics has announced a series of additional networked models with full HD 1920 x 1080 progressive (1080p) resolution. The company has informed this new W-series adds an economic HDTV option, while delivering the same interactive functionality as the recently announced Bravia Z5100 and XBR9 models. [...]
Alca-Lu to power M-net’s fibre access network
Alcatel-Lucent has been awarded a multi-million Euro contract by the Munich-based regional network operator M-net, to deploy the first extensive fibre access network in Munich. The comany informed that in the future, additional Bavarian cities will be connected to M-net’s high-speed access network that consists of a mixed fibre-to-the-building (FTTB)/fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) architecture. Alcatel-Lucent will begin [...]
Alpha Networks launches HD media player
Alpha Networks, a player in the networking ODM/OEM industry, has announced plans to display its high definition media player, the ADM-555H, at 2009 CeBIT. The company informed that the ADM-555H supports HDMI up to 1080p resolution and multimedia formats to enjoy HD content. The ADM-555H is a plug-and-play device that enables users to play videos, [...]
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 – [...]
Qiao Xing Mobile, Datang establish strategic cooperation
Qiao Xing Mobile Communication, a Chinese manufacturer of mobile handsets, has established strategic cooperation with Datang Telecom Technology, a Chinese supplier of TD-SCDMA chipsets. Qiao Xing Mobile’s subsidiary CEC Telecom (CECT) signed the cooperation agreement with Datang. Based on the agreement, Datang will supply TD-SCDMA chipsets to CECT, which will be used in at least [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
AT&T U-verse Voice launches in LA
AT&T California has announced the availability of AT&T U-verse Voice in parts of the Greater Los Angeles area, bringing consumers a next-generation digital voice service delivered over the company’s U-verse Internet Protocol (IP) network. U-verse Voice brings together home phone, wireless, broadband and TV services — all on one bill — with features including a [...]
