Kabel Deutschland’s plans to upgrade the Berlin cable network will begin to come to fruition next week. Berlin, despite being the first area in the country to switch to DTT, […]
PS3 to double as STB
Korea Telecom (KT), Korea’s incumbent telecom operator, and Sony Computer Entertainment Korea (SCEK) will launch an Internet-based TV service in November that runs on the PlayStation 3 game console. The […]
Adobe brings BBC iPlayer to Mac and Linux
The BBC has signed a major agreement with Adobe systems that will see the iPlayer catch-up TV service available to users of the Apple and Linux platforms before the end […]
IDS selects Chellomedia for interactive TV advertising
Interactive Digital Sales (IDS), the advertising solutions provider for Virgin Media Television, has selected Chellomedia’s Mistral software to create and publish templated interactive advertising on the Sky Satellite platform. Chellomedia’s […]
Major outage on Virgin Media
10.49 UPDATE. Virgin Media subscribers lost access to their cable TV service in the middle of primetime on Thursday evening. Problems were first reported at 21.28 and, although some services […]
Flat panel TVs beat towards $100bn barrier
Consumer spending on flat panel TVs is likely to pass $100 billion (€70.69bn) worldwide during 2007, according to the latest report from the Strategy Analytics Connected Home Devices service. The […]
SES creates new engineering division
SES has brought together all of its engineering activities into a single entity covering satellite, ground, procurement, engineering and operational services. Martin Halliwell, SES Astra’s long serving chief technology officer, […]
Redback fibre route for Neuf Cegetel
The French alternative telco Neuf Cegetel has selected Ericsson and its Redback subsidiary for its next generation fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) aggregation network for both residential and business services. The vendors will […]
Belgacom upgrades IPTV net for HD
The Belgian incumbent telco Belgacom has selected Alcatel-Lucent to supply it with its fibre-to-the-node VDSL2-network. The network upgrade is scheduled to be completed in spring 2008. Belgacom’s Broadway infrastructure programme […]
Sagem claims 2 million MPEG-4 set-tops
BBWF – BERLIN. French manufacturer Sagem has said it has now delivered two million MPEG-4 set-top boxes, available for all four distribution technologies: DSL, satellite, cable and DTT. The company […]