DISH Enhances iPad App
DISH (NASDAQ:DISH) has revamped its Remote Access app for the iPad. The free TV everywhere app is intended to improve performance and enhance the on-screen dashboard to make it easier to find content. Customers can watch live and recorded TV … Continue reading
Synacor Buys Carbyn HTML5 App Platform
Synacor (NASDAQ: SYNC) has acquired Carbyn, an HTML5 platform designed to deliver a unified experience for apps across Internet-connected devices including smartphones, tablets, laptops, and connected TVs. Through the acquisition, Synacor plans to offer its customers a branded platform where … Continue reading
Cox VA Offers Free Tech Classes
Beginning April 21, Cox Solutions Stores in Virginia will be offering workshops on a variety of topics. The sessions are designed to help customers get the most from their digital experience. Learning Lounges, located within Cox Solutions Stores, will be … Continue reading
Dyyno Aims for TV Everywhere
Dyyno announced a cloud-based turnkey TV Everywhere solution designed to enable content aggregators and cable operators to stream live TV and VOD content to any screen at any level of quality up to 1080p HD. The open standards-based solution is … Continue reading
DirecTV Adds DVR to Hotel Service
DirecTV is now offering HD DVRs as part of its Residential Experience for Hotels service for the lodging industry. In addition to DVR functionality, the service includes the same HD programming guide as DirecTV’s residential service, which can be co-branded … Continue reading
Wowza Upgrades Server Software
Wowza Media Systems will demonstrate a set of enhancements to its Media Server 3 at the NAB Show. The newest version of the software platform, Wowza Media Server 3.1 includes refinements to the nDVR AddOn, an audio-only option for the … Continue reading
BTC Taps Entone for Hybrid TV
Entone is teaming with BTC Broadband to explore a new hybrid TV service model in Bixby, OK, via Entone’s FusionTV solution. The deployment is intended to let BTC Broadband offer a new broadband TV service that combines live over-the-air TV … Continue reading
RGB Intros ABS Packaging on the Fly
RGB Networks has added new “just-in-time” packaging (JITP) capabilities to its TransAct Packager. The new technology is designed to enable video service providers to deliver adaptive bitrate VOD, network DVR and TV Everywhere services without pre-packaging all their video assets … Continue reading
WOW! Deploys Sigma Systems OSS
Sigma Systems has completed the deployment of its Device Provisioning Manager (DPM) for WOW! Internet, cable and phone. Sigma’s DPM enables the provisioning of WOW!’s new ULTRA TV whole-home multimedia entertainment service. The deployment is intended to let WOW! manage … Continue reading
Videotron Gets Interactive with Alticast
Alticast has been the primary supplier and developer of applications and the user experiences for Videotron‘s new interactive TV solution, illico TV new generation, and is the primary integrator for Videotron on the project. Based on Alticast’s open-standards-based tru2way software, … Continue reading
Espial Adds Live Streaming for Multiscreen
Espial announced the newest enhancements to its MediaBase, an on-demand video platform designed to support both HTTP and RTSP streaming from a single platform to any viewing device. The software-based solution runs on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware to provide live … Continue reading
‘Hopper’ DVR Goes Live at DISH
DISH Network announced the availability of the Hopper whole-home HD DVR entertainment system. The Hopper was first introduced at CES in January and is designed to let viewers share DVR content on TV sets throughout the home. Customers can pause, … Continue reading