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A new advanced test tool to ensure devices comply with the latest CI Plus specification has been released by CI Plus LLP.  Testing of the MHEG-based CI Plus Browser is now a mandatory part of the CI Plus conformance regime, helping to ensure interoperability of interactive MHEG applications across all conformant receivers. The move was [...]

Comstar-UTS has commercially launched a new service for its 120,000+ IPTV subscribers in Moscow. Known as ‘TV Pause’, it employs special software from Edgware and allows for the pausing of live programming. Comstar-UTS believes TV Pause will help viewers create a home multimedia centre, fully configured to suit their individual needs. Both it and most [...]

UPC Romania has added a HD version of the channel Acasa to its offer. As a result, it now distributes a total of 11 channels in the format. Acasa is operated by the national commercial broadcaster Pro TV SA and is targeted at a female audience. It is one of the longest established such channels [...]

The Polish public broadcaster TVP is pushing ahead with its digitisation plans despite all the upheavals caused by yet another change in senior management at the station. Rzeczpospolita reports that the first TVP channels on the country’s third multiplex, which has been allocated exclusively to the station, will appear on October 27 this year. The [...]

The Russian DTH operation Raduga TV, which is backed by Modern Times Group (MTG), will add a new package of channels to its offer on September 15. It will consist of 13 Russian services, headed by Channel 1, Rossiya 1 and Rossiya 24 and also including NTV, Ren, Russia Today and Mother and Child, and [...]

The Russian DTH operation Raduga TV, which is backed by Modern Times Group (MTG), will add a new package of channels to its offer on September 15. It will consist of 13 Russian services, headed by Channel 1, Rossiya 1 and Rossiya 24 and also including NTV, Ren, Russia Today and Mother and Child, and [...] 0

4.3 million Swedes watched online video during the second quarter of 2009, encouraged by major events including the Olympics, the World Cup and the Swedish Royal Wedding. Weekly reach of 2.5% equated to around 35%. Consultancy Mediavision, which compiled the research, said although younger audiences were consuming the most online content there was a clear [...]

4.3 million Swedes watched online video during the second quarter of 2009, encouraged by major events including the Olympics, the World Cup and the Swedish Royal Wedding. Weekly reach of 2.5% equated to around 35%. Consultancy Mediavision, which compiled the research, said although younger audiences were consuming the most online content there was a clear [...] 0

German households are fast adopting digital receivers: according to the latest Digitalisierungsbericht 2010 23,133,000 now have access to digital television. This is 6.7% more than last year. Terrestrial television and IPTV are already 100% digital, followed by DTH satellite, which now reaches 79.1% of all dish owners, up 5% from last year. With regards to [...]

German households are fast adopting digital receivers: according to the latest Digitalisierungsbericht 2010 23,133,000 now have access to digital television. This is 6.7% more than last year. Terrestrial television and IPTV are already 100% digital, followed by DTH satellite, which now reaches 79.1% of all dish owners, up 5% from last year. With regards to [...] 0

WESTMINSTER eFORUM: The FUTURE OF DTT. QVC will launch a HD channel on satellite in about two years, according to Richard Burrell, director of media operations, QVC UK. It will be unable to do so on DTT due to limited capacity, and generally speaking “embryonic channels will be pushed to satellite, which we don’t want.” [...]

Swedish video Voddler has completed a private share placement that has brought the company SEK40 million (€4.29 million) in new capital. In addition to private investors, Finnish telecom group Elisa also contributed to the issue, and plans to launch Voddler in the Finnish market. “Video and film are strategically important to us, both on current [...]

WESTMINSTER eFORUM: The FUTURE OF DTT. QVC will launch a HD channel on satellite in about two years, according to Richard Burrell, director of media operations, QVC UK. It will be unable to do so on DTT due to limited capacity, and generally speaking “embryonic channels will be pushed to satellite, which we don’t want.” [...] 0

WESTMINSTER eFORUM: The FUTURE OF DTT. Freeview HD is now watched in 160,000 homes, according to Isle Howling, MD Freeview. What is more, Freeview has had 1.5 million unique visitors to its website checking the coverage of its HD services. Launched earlier this year, they can already be received in 55% of the UK, with [...] 0

WESTMINSTER eFORUM: The FUTURE OF DTT. Freeview HD is now watched in 160,000 homes, according to Isle Howling, MD Freeview. What is more, Freeview has had 1.5 million unique visitors to its website checking the coverage of its HD services. Launched earlier this year, they can already be received in 55% of the UK, with [...]

IFA 2010 – BERLIN. WATCH VIDEO. Google TV will be introduced in the US before the end of the year, but the service will not hit Europe until 2011, we learned during the closing session of this year’s IFA. Speaking before a packed house, Eric Schmidt, Google chairman of the board and CEO, said Google [...]

The OIPF (Open IPTV Forum) has announced the publication of the second edition of its global end-to-end specifications for IPTV. Release 2 includes what the OIPF is describing as “an evolution of functionality” with a basket of improvements and enhancements to the 2009 publication. The Forum has defined a number of usage Profiles and has [...]

The OIPF (Open IPTV Forum) has announced the publication of the second edition of its global end-to-end specifications for IPTV. Release 2 includes what the OIPF is describing as “an evolution of functionality” with a basket of improvements and enhancements to the 2009 publication. The Forum has defined a number of usage Profiles and has [...] 0

Latens is going into IBC in the midst of what the conditional access company sees as a transition in attitudes towards software-based CAS. In an interview with Broadband TV News, Alex Borland, director of business development, said that a shift two years ago, when operators began to ask more questions about software CAS, had moved [...]

Forget all that 3D malarkey, it’s so last year, well that depends. This year it seems every exhibitor at IBC 2010 will have some sort of stereoscopic television on its stand. We know that the delivery of 3D signals into domestic televisions is possible, what we are yet to discover is whether or not people [...]