Sky Italia has signed a multi-year patent licence agreement with Gemstar-TV Guide International. The agreement covers the use of Gemstar’s intellectual property in its electronic programme guides across various platforms. […]
Ocean Blue wins Toshiba order
Ocean Blue Software, a digital TV software developer, is to release its advanced TV software suite on Toshiba’s TC9040x ‘Donau’ series of processors. The new Linux-based software will allow for […]
Irdeto acquires French company IDway SAS
Irdeto announced today that that it has acquired IDway SAS, a software company providing open software solutions for digital TV consumer devices based in Paris, France. No financial details of […]
Investors for DiBcom as new Pinnacle USB stick launched
The French DVB-T/H chip developer DiBcom, which primarily caters for the mobile TV reception market, has raised €20 million in new equity from Natixis and existing investors. Nataxis came up […]
Top Up TV goes retail
Top Up TV is to make its personal video recorder available through the UK retail chain John Lewis. The combined DTT receiver and 160GB hard drive is being priced at […]
YooMedia to quit fixed odds betting
YooMedia is preparing to sell its subsidiary The Gaming Channel to the Spanish-based investment company Kasei 2000. The Gaming Channel runs YooMedia’s fixed odds betting operation and has been valued […]
ND SatCom delivers Polish earth stations
SES Astra’s ND SatCom has secured a contract to provide earth stations to Canal+ Cyfrowy for its new digital TV platform headquarters in Warsaw. It includes two uplinks and one […]
Satellite holds onto higher HD bandwidth
C-COR GLOBAL IP SUMMIT – CANNES. SES-Astra VP, Product Management, Thomas Wrede is standing by the satellite operator’s strategy of using around 14 Mbps for the transmission of HD channels. […]
VeohTV takes on Joost
Veoh, a provider of web TV, has announced the beta launch of VeohTV, an application that builds on the success of its Veoh Player. According to the San Diego based […]
Ocean Blue calls for single PVR standard
Ocean Blue Software, says the market needs a single standard for Digital TV recorders, also called Personal Video Recorders. The company is calling for a single brand to avoid consumer […]