Tag Archives: Contribution

THURSDAY 10TH JANUARY 2019 – LONDON – Simplestream, the leader in live, live-2-VOD and on-demand OTT services, has strengthened its VOD in a Box technology with download for offline viewing and Chromecast integration across its mobile services. Today’s fast-evolving mediascape has propelled the high expectations consumers have for quality viewing experiences – anytime, anywhere and on any device. In its ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Jan. 14, 2019 – Cobalt Digital today announced the availability of its 9992‑ENC series of HEVC/H.264/MPEG-5 encoders for openGear® frames. Designed for a variety of broadcast applications, the dual-slot card offers customized I/O options and extensive audio support for cost-effective contribution, distribution, ENG, IPTV, and OTT solutions. The 9992-ENC base model supports both MPEG-2 and H.264 (AVC), with ...

Sinclair Broadcast Group (Nasdaq: SBGI) recently signed a multi-year lease agreement with LiveU that upgrades its fleet of hundreds of portable transmission units to LU600 HEVC for its newsgathering operations, ensuring the media company always has the latest bonded IP technology. The agreement immediately upgrades Sinclair stations spanning 80 production locations in the US to LiveU’s flagship model of HEVC ...

Service providers are facing several challenges in the traditional broadcast and video streaming businesses: how to be more agile, how to enhance video quality, how to cost-effectively deliver live and VOD content to a wide range of devices and how to boost monetization. At Convergence India 2019, Harmonic‘s software-based approach for media processing, playout and delivery will offer solutions for ...

December 20, 2018 Dish TV deploys MediaKind AVP Video Processing Platform to enhance viewing experience for its customers DishTV India Limited selects MediaKind to replace its entire headend infrastructure and cater towards the direct-to-home operations of its brands-DishTV and D2H Deployment of AVP 4000 platform, which is part of the Aquila family of solutions in the MediaKind Universe portfolio, to ...

RENNES, France — Dec. 19, 2018 — Broadpeak®, a leading provider of content delivery network (CDN) and video streaming solutions for content providers and pay-TV operators worldwide, today announced that Beeline, one of the largest telecom operators in Russia, has selected Broadpeak to power its Beeline TV service. Using high-capacity CDN solutions from Broadpeak, Beeline can deliver high-quality live, VOD, ...

PBT EU & technology partner 4Visions created a whole new HD system –  University of Warsaw selects PBT EU’s EXEcutor broadcast server range for playout capabilities    The University of Warsaw has made the move to upgrade its Journalism Department to HD. PBT EU, alongside technology partner 4Visions were called on to create an entirely new virtual HD studio. The ...

Anevia, a leading provider of OTT and IPTV software solutions, will provide software video encoding technologies to Ting Internet for their new multiscreen TV service. Ting TV will offer live TV packages with local and premium specialty channels that can be viewed on a TV or on connected consumer devices. Television services will be available to high speed internet clients ...

Easy-to-use interface, powerful scheduling tools and sophisticated streaming functionality help station efficiently bring new, high-quality viewing options to its community MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, December 13, 2018 – Like many of its peers, non-profit public, educational and government (PEG) access broadcaster Billerica Access Television (BATV) is adapting to the evolving media landscape in which many consumers are cutting the cord and no ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Dec. 11, 2018 — Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced that Hilliary Communications, a leading provider of broadband, digital cable TV and telephone services in Oklahoma, has deployed Harmonic‘s CableOS™ virtualized cable access solution to upgrade to DOCSIS 3.1 and create a new 1 Gigabit service tier, while overcoming the space, power and operational complexity constraints associated ...

Oslo, Norway, 11 December 2018 – Nevion, award-winning provider of virtualized media production solutions, today announced that a leading Japan-based global video transmission company (which cannot be named for commercial reasons), has chosen Nevion’s software-defined media node, Virtuoso, for 4K/UHD broadcast contribution with TICO encoding. Initially, Virtuoso is used by the company to transport signals over legacy dark fiber, with ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Dec. 4, 2018 — Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced that it has been awarded Patent Number 10,104,405 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the invention titled “Dynamic Allocation of CPU Cycles in Video Stream Processing.” The patent defines innovative technology that dynamically adjusts CPU cycles for cloud-based video processing based on video complexity information. ...

Slovak Telekom and T-Mobile Czech Republic select MediaKind for IPTV extension A new Mediaroom platform will prepare the IPTV platform for future cloud migration, introducing virtualized architectures across Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Agreement will enable the modernization of the existing Magio IPTV service in Slovakia and the launch of a new IPTV service in the Czech Republic. Mediaroom delivers ...

PARIS, DENVER, SINGAPORE, SAO PAULO, SYDNEY, 29 November, 2018 – ATEME has announced today that Australia’s Sky Racing, a leader in multi-venue and multi-channel race & sport broadcasting, has successfully deployed video compression solutions facilitating a complete HD refresh and expansion of DTH services.   ATEME worked with their Australia and New Zealand distributor Amber Technology to design and deploy ...

SAINT-GRÉGOIRE, France — Nov. 28, 2018 — AVIWEST, a global provider of video contribution systems, today announced that Thai Public Broadcasting Service (TPBS) deployed AVIWEST’s RACK180 hybrid contribution video encoder, StreamHub transceivers, and QUAD wideband antennas to improve video quality and lower distribution costs for live, breaking news. The broadcaster used AVIWEST’s solution for live coverage of the recent high-profile ...

Rohde & Schwarz has acquired Pixel Power Ltd., a technology leader in television branding, graphics, automation, master control and playout. With this acquisition Rohde & Schwarz is executing its plan to expand further in broadcast playout while taking ownership of a company with significant technological leadership. The subsidiary will be renamed “Pixel Power Ltd. – A Rohde & Schwarz Company”. ...