IBC 2007 (Stand 4.370a) Streaming video specialist Vividas is launching the latest version of its VivCast Live Professional software which enables live streaming from events. Live streaming is something relatively new to the company whose platforms have so far been used primarily for on demand streaming of trailers for Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures and UIP, [...]

IBC 2007 (Stand 4.331) Anevia, the French designer of the Flamingo DVB-to-IP gateways and Toucan VOD/nPVR servers, will demonstrate the second generation of the IPTV gateways and servers that drive a 4000 title VOD service for Telecom Italia France, as well as a Network-PVR system at Finnish Alands DataKommunikation, Tele2 Sweden’s 20 channel DVB-T system [...]

IBC 2007 (Stand 4.261) At the DMB Pavillion a group of Korean companies is showing a complete range of products required to start your own T-DMB, multimedia over DAB, service. Content creation and play-out are provided by net&TV Studio4idmb and Cast4idmb, which offer a WYSWYG canvas and timeline editor and continuous monitoring of the target [...]

IBC 2007 (Stand 1.411) Thomson will be showing its latest content processing and security products. Adding watermarks and fingerprints to professional workflows as well as mass distribution platforms. NexGuard Forensic Marking enables serialization of content from pre-release, through D-Cinema, IPTV VoD sessions, cable, and satellite broadcasts. Using the NexGuard watermarks and fingerprints Thomson will show [...]

IBC 2007 (Stand 3.311) French middleware developer IWEDIA will be demonstrating the first samples of ‘Freeview Playback’ compatible PVRs based on dedicated editions of its Comedia middleware which support PVR-related features on a variety of hardware platforms. The Freeview Playback specification issued by the UK’s Digital TV Group (DTG), and its associated brand, should extend [...]

IBC 2007 (Stand 3.342) Red Bee Media will show the broadband TV services it has been developing over the past year, including its involvement in the BBC iPlayer. The on demand P2P service which launched on July 27 allows UK TV licence fee players to catch up on BBC programming over the Internet. Red Bee enables the daily [...]

IBC 2007 (Stand 3.311, Pod M.393) All bases have been covered by Enensys, which will be displaying mobile TV technologies not just for DVB-H, but for the competing MediaFLO, T-DMB, DVB-SH and CMMB technologies. The French manufacturer will be running a complete DVB-H delivery chain that includes DVB-H IP encapsulator, SFN adapters, SFN and MFN [...]

IBC 2007 (Stand 9.530) Tektronix will be offering up its new PQA500 Picture Quality Analyser, which incorporates eight new Tektronix patents and the most comprehensive human vision tool the company has yet implemented. A number of new features have been added to the the MTS400 Series MPEG Transport Stream Analysers, including enhanced support for IPTV, [...]

IBC 2007 (Stand 3.359) Surrey-based SysMedia will be debuting its new SDR7 DVB subtitle inserter and transcoder. The unit uses the established Teletext subtitling protocols and can also extract Teletext subtitles from an analogue video signal and convert them into the equivalent DVB subtitles. SysMedia has pointed to an increasing amount of legislation relating to [...]

Welcome to Broadband TV News’ coverage of IBC 2007. The event at the RAI centre in colourful Amsterdam from September 6 – 11 remains the centrepiece of technology and what it means to our business. In this special section we’ll take a look at some of the products that you can expect to see on [...]