IBC 2010 – AMSTERDAM. Headend provider Appear TV has announced a successful deployment for its SC2000 headend for MultiChoice Africa.
RTL’s Zeiler: “We will control on-demand”
IBC 2010 – AMSTERDAM. “With on-demand TV we see the opposite of fragmentation,” Gerhard Zeiler, CEO RTL said during Friday’s keynote session, “It is all about blockbuster viewing, both for […]
Conax plans cardless CA for 2011
IBC 2010 – AMSTERDAM. Conax has revealed plans to introduce a cardless CA to the market in the next 12 months. The solution that will sit alongside the company’s existing […]
Massive 2011 roll-out for Intel Smart TV
IBC 2010 – AMSTERDAM. Before the end of the year, two service providers and two consumer electronic retail products will roll out in Europe with Intel’s Smart TV.
Sky Deuschland/HD+ deal imminent
IBC 2010 – AMSTERDAM. Sky Deutschland and Astra’s HD + platform are still in discussion about interoperability of their respective HD receivers, said Ferdinand Keyser, CEO and President of SES […]
SnapTV deploys VOD for all at sea
IBC 2010 – AMSTERDAM. If you can afford to buy your own private yacht, then your own video-on-demand system is an obvious requirement. SnapTV, the Oslo-based IP video specialist has […]
First NDS, now ZON tries OpenTV for size
IBC 2010 – AMSTERDAM. ZON TV Cabo is to trial a user interface based on Nagravision’s OpenTV nX. The Portuguese cableco already uses the Nagravision conditional access, but in the […]
Social Networking displaces the Red Button
IBC 2010 – AMSTERDAM. Social Networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are beginning to take over from the Red Button as a means for broadcasters to interact with their […]
Making TV more personal
IBC 2010 – AMSTERDAM. “Connecting TV to the web is not just bringing web on TV,” Lora Aroyo, assistant professor at the Free University Amsterdam, told the audience of the […]
Opera televises the HTML5 revolution
IBC 2010 – AMSTERDAM. Opera Software have released a new software development kit (SDK) featuring support for HTML5 video and including their newest and JavaScript engine, Carakan.