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Asia Broadcast Satellite launches Outdoor Channel HD across Asia

Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) is announcing its first fully integrated High Definition channel launch with Outdoor Channel throughout Asia and the Pacific. ABS is providing Outdoor Channel with a comprehensive, integrated broadcast solution including content library management, HD and SD playout, subtitling, encryption, and transmission services for Outdoor Channel, using its ABS-1 and ABS-5 satellites. […]

October 27, 2010

Videocon achieves 2 million subscriber milestone using Irdeto

Irdeto, the global expert in securing and delivering premium content and digital assets, congratulates customer Videocon d2h, a provider of direct-to-home (DTH) services for India, for recently reaching two million subscribers. To achieve this significant milestone, Videocon d2h relied on Irdeto’s robust end-to-end pay-TV solution suite to create a distinctive user experience with direct access […]

October 26, 2010

Witbe launches new video quality solution for 3D stereoscopic TV

Witbe, a specialist in video Quality of Experience (QoE) monitoring solutions for three screen technologies, has announced that it will launch a 3D stereoscopic TV solution in Q4 2010. It will be the first 3D solution of its kind available to 3D TV service providers. In the search for new revenue streams, operators are moving […]

October 21, 2010

Masstech offers instant migration to EMC Avalon users affected by EOL

Broadcasters affected by EMC AVALON storage software End of Life (EOL) risk losing valuable digital assets as technical support for AVALON products ceases at the end of October this year. The challenge lies in quickly migrating digital assets to a supported platform while making sure stored assets are still available for use. Masstech, the leading […]

October 21, 2010

Grass Valley helps launch Ghana’s new TV channel

As part of its on-going development in Africa, Grass Valley is supplying a turnkey high-definition TV production studio, complete with cameras, video production switcher, routers, and a shared-storage editing environment to Multimedia Group Ltd. (MGL), operators of Multi TV (a new digital satellite multi-channel TV station) based in Ghana. This new multi-faceted project (“Phase II”) […]

October 19, 2010

STRONG launches high performance HD+ Satellite Receiver SRT 7805

ARD, ZDF and five other broadcasters transmit High Definition programmes free-to-air in Germany  whereas RTL, SAT1, Pro7, VOX, Kabel1 and SPORT1, which is starting from November 1 st, can  only be received with an HD+ compatible satellite receiver. Set-top box specialist STRONG is now  launching its fully equipped SRT 7805 satellite receiver. With its built-in […]

October 13, 2010

Cheetah Technologies announces CMD-EL+ to expand monitoring to all digital QAM carriers

Cheetah Technologies, LP, a leader in network performance and video quality management solutions, today announced planned enhancements to its CMD-EL end of line RF monitor that will dramatically expand cable system operators’ ability to perform critical digital measurements on QAM video carriers. In addition, the product development will be expanded to provide support for DOCSIS […]

October 12, 2010

RGB Networks hires veteran international Sales Executive

RGB Networks, an expert in network video processing, has announced the hiring of Simone Sassoli as Vice President, International. In this position he will be responsible for RGB’s sales throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region. “As video service providers around the world begin their trials and deployments of multi-screen services, we […]

October 12, 2010

Cheetah Technologies unveils V-Factor SM-STB to measure video quality between STB and TV

Cheetah Technologies has announced a new addition to its V-Factor Source Monitor line that extends the company’s leadership in network performance and video quality management solutions all the way to the subscriber premises. Cheetah’s V-Factor SMSTB is designed to emulate a subscriber surfing channels and builds upon Cheetah’s proven video analysis technology to objectively and […]

October 8, 2010

Telecentro chooses Cedar Point for major expansion of telecommunications network

Cedar Point Communications, a worldwide leader in integrated Voice over IP (VoIP) switching technologies for service providers, has been selected by Argentina’s largest cable network operator, Telecentro, to expand its VoIP communications services to subscribers using the SAFARI C“ Multimedia Switching System. This network expansion will more than triple the capacity of the Safari C3’s […]

October 4, 2010