Mid-September. Two prominent U.S. Senators were proposing local choice – a la carte for broadcast stations. Aereo formally petitioned the FCC to be designated an MVPD. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler was threatening to reclassify broadband as a Title II service. HBO executives were secretly preparing to offer a direct-to-consumer over the top service. Somebody […]
IBC 2014 Preview
IBC retains its position as one of the more important global communications industry events, largely for the breadth of the show and the quality of the programs, but in no small part for its relatively easy-going pace and its decision to plunk down in one of the world’s great cities. This year’s show will focus […]
New Products: Envivio, RGB Networks
Envivio enhances 4K encoding software Envivio introduced a new multiprocessor software approach for real-time 4K Ultra HD HEVC (H.265) compression using its Muse encoding software. The approach relies on distributing HEVC encoding across multiple server nodes. This architecture is designed to provide the power to perform high quality Ultra HD compression on industry-standard servers. […]
Nagra/Kudelski buying Conax
Nagra/Kudelski Group is buying Conax from Telenor Broadcast for roughly $256 million (NOK 1.5 billion). Telenor Broadcast said its sale of Conax is part of its strategy of focusing on core activities. Telenor is a mobile network operator, but it also owns several businesses the develop satellite broadcasting technology, along with Canal Digital, a […]
The Broadband 50
CED’s readers participate in what has become one of the most dynamic markets the world has ever seen. Technologies are being introduced and are evolving at break-neck speeds. Everybody has their fingers in everyone else’s pies. Competitors pop up, fall by the wayside, morph into allies. Nothing is nailed down, everything is in flux, from […]
Upfront: Net Neutrality | White Spaces | 4K @ CES | Charter – TWC
Charter’s $61B bid for TWC goes public – and nasty After months of “private” negotiations that were consistently leaked to the press, Charter Communications finally made a public offer to buy Time Warner Cable. The bid, $132.50 a share, values Time Warner Cable at more than $61 billion, included debt. TWC rejected the offer as […]
New Products: Triveni, ThinkAnalytics, Pasternack
Triveni, Digital Alert team up on M-EAS Triveni Digital recently announced that Mobile Emergency Alert System (M-EAS) functionality is now available for its metadata generation system. The company has created a software interface developed in conjunction with Digital Alert Systems that bridges Triveni Digital’s GuideBuilder 5 metadata generation system and Digital Alert Systems’ DASDEC emergency […]
Upfront: Bill would lift OTT companies to MVPD status
Sen. Jay Rockefeller is planning a bill that aims to give upstart online video services the chance to compete on an equal footing with classic MVPDs by guaranteeing their rights to content. That includes content not only from classic cable TV networks and channels but also from broadcast networks. Under Rockefeller’s bill, the Consumer Choice […]
Cable-Tec Expo Show Daily: Day 1
In this issue (download PDF): Imagine | Elemental Technologies | Aurora Networks | Envivio | RGB Networks | Electroline | Effigis | Concurrent | Volicon | CommScope | Triveni Digital | RFMD | InnoTrans | Evolution | Tektronix | Active Broadband | Netcracker | ATX | Witbe | Arris Imagine upgrades video processor, transcoder. Page […]
Demystifying Technology: Manifest Manipulation in Multi-screen Delivery
Ad insertion in a multi-stream environment always relies on creating manifests. There are several ways to do that, however, and only one method — dynamic manifest manipulation (DMM) gives service providers all the tools they need to do the job. This edition sponsored by Seawell Networks