Video
Amino gets add-on Wi-Fi from Celeno
September 5, 2012 2:33 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsAmino Communications will be offering a USB Wi-Fi dongle, built around Celeno’s Wi-Fi chipsets and including software for HD multimedia home networking applications, with its A140/A540 set-top boxes. These models are designed for the retail market for IP-based services.
Fast and furious: Building a network in 60 days
September 5, 2012 12:55 pm | by Craig Kuhl, Contributing Editor | Articles | CommentsAssembling a network from scratch in 60 days isn’t for the faint of heart. Rarely, if ever, has it been done before on the scale of the Pac-12 Enterprises networks that will begin this month, delivering more than 850 events annually to seven linear channels, and eventually beyond.
FPGAs: The “G” doesn’t stand for “Green” – but it could
September 5, 2012 11:40 am | by Aaron Behman, senior marketing manager, and Joe Palermo, systems architect for the broadcast and consumer segment, of Xilinx | Articles | CommentsIn the last couple of years, service providers have developed a greater awareness of how they can take better control of their energy use and energy costs. For every piece of cable equipment produced, there is an associated, additional cost to cool that equipment.
Open Mic - Next-gen campaign management systems
September 4, 2012 10:36 pm | by Jeffrey Sherwin, CEO of This Technology | Articles | CommentsCable has steadily pursued dynamic ad insertion (DAI) to achieve better ad targeting and monetization. There have been learning moments along the way as vendors and operators have worked to make DAI a reality in different ways. One key learning that has come from this initial work is that the next phase of DAI needs to be built on campaign management systems (CMSs).
Engineering-Wise - Putting lessons learned to work
September 4, 2012 10:15 pm | by Mark Dzuban, president and CEO of the SCTE | Articles | CommentsYou have to work pretty hard to make a connection between yard work and SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, but Shawn and I moved into a new – more on that in a minute – home, and the last several months have been spent transitioning from chaos to order.
Capital Currents - The FCC’s ‘annual’ report on video competition
September 4, 2012 10:05 pm | by Jeffrey Krauss, president of Telecommunications and Technology Policy | Articles | CommentsThe FCC recently released its 14th “Annual Assessment of the Status of Competition in the Market for the Delivery of Video Programming.” The most interesting part to me was the back story, and the nearly five-year interval between the 13th report and the 14th.
New Products - September 2012
September 4, 2012 9:54 pm | by CED Magazine | Products | CommentsThomson Video Networks' ViBE VS7000 multi-screen video platform has been enhanced with new features, SeaChange demonstrated the latest innovations of its Nucleus soft box gateway, and Volicon’s loudness monitoring and logging solution is now available on its Observer Scout platform.
Alcatel-Lucent, Concurrent combine forces on expanding VOD catalogs
September 4, 2012 2:23 pm | by Mike Robuck | Products | CommentsThe expanded VOD offerings can be delivered to traditional set-top boxes, as well as tablets, PCs and smartphones, using Alcatel-Lucent’s Velocix CDN technology and Concurrent’s MediaHawk Unified Origin and TV-VOD edge servers. The new TV Everywhere architecture has been put through its paces via a trial with a large cable MSO.
RGB beefs up TV Everywhere stable with live SDI video encoding
September 4, 2012 2:18 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsThe TransAct Encoder/Transcoder, which is integrated with RGB’s existing TransAct Transcoder product line, offers the ability to ingest uncompressed SDI-sourced live content, as well as IP and file input, for live or on-demand IP video delivery to smartphones, tablets, PCs and connected TVs, as well as traditional set-top boxes.
IBM gets into the IPTV delivery business
August 31, 2012 12:25 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsThe development of content delivery networks (CDNs) made it almost inevitable that IP content delivery would become a service, which in turn made it a near certainty that a business services company like IBM would enter the market. IBM has introduced a cloud platform for delivering content on behalf of CE firms.
Elemental sets up video cloud service
August 31, 2012 12:23 pm | by Brian Santo | Products | CommentsThe company plans to introduce Elemental Cloud at IBC in Amsterdam. At the same time, it will begin making available Elemental Server Cloud Edition (CE), a file-based solution for high speed, multi-format video conversion in the cloud.
Samsung to rely on Verimatrix security
August 31, 2012 12:22 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsSamsung will use Verimatrix’s security suite, including its VCAS security system and ViewRight client software, to protect content delivered to its Smart TVs. Video service apps that pay-TV operators build for Samsung Smart TVs will now be able to take advantage of ViewRight client security.
Pac-12 Networks opens coverage without DirecTV
August 31, 2012 12:19 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsThe Pac-12 Networks opened it football coverage with the Utah-Northern Colorado game, with DirecTV subscribers unable to watch because of a distribution stalemate. The network also televised the Arizona State-Northern Arizona game and has exclusive rights to 15 nonconference games and 20 Pac-12 games this season.
Pace’s software provides quick gateway updates to French provider
August 30, 2012 2:07 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsFrance’s Bouygues Telecom is installing Pace’s Helium Unified Gateway Software to enable faster rollouts of new services and apps across a range of gateway devices. Bouygues Telecom will sell Pace’s new Helium software across all of its new BBOX Sensation gateways, as well as legacy devices, in 1.3 million subscriber homes.
After golden run at Olympics, Adobe unveils TV Everywhere enhancements
August 30, 2012 1:59 pm | by Mike Robuck | Products | CommentsComing on the heels of a successful trial run at the Olympics, Adobe Systems announced it has upgraded its Adobe Pass platform to its second version. Adobe put Adobe Pass 2.0 through its paces during the recent 2012 London Olympic Games, which served as a milestone for TV Everywhere services.
