Anti piracy organisation AEPOC is entering its second decade with the challenges as great as ever. Julian Clover reports Geneva was this week the setting for the 10th anniversary conference of AEPOC, the anti piracy organisation, whose membership includes both conditional access providers and broadcasters. The president, former Eutelsat director general Jean Grenier, has been […]
Clover’s Week: Saving down
RGB Networks is opening a UK office as it brings its video processing technology to Europe. Julian Clover reports Every once in a while a technology emerges that captures the enthusiasm of the industry. In the mid-1990s Imedia’s Cherry Picker, later acquired by Terayon, and once described as the “grandfather of grooming devices”. The Cherry […]
Clover’s Week: Licensing hours
Will the BBC’s commitment to digital switchover waiver under the new licence fee settlement? Julian Clover reports There is no doubting that the BBC has thrown itself fully behind the digital switchover process. First by launching new digital channels and later by bailing the government out of a major policy failure when ITV Digital went […]
Clover’s Week: In praise of Ceefax
Julian Clover finds that for the football fan, analogue Ceefax is still top of the league New Year in Windsor and my hosts were in need of a football fix. Just who was going to be in the Palace team that afternoon? The answer was found not by WAP, 3G, the Internet or digital text […]