TWC Expands TV Everywhere Content
Time Warner Cable (NYSE:TWC) is expanding its Vutopia movie service by including access via web-connected PC and Mac computers and laptops across its footprint. The Vutopia service allows instant access to hundreds of movies and trailers on either set-top boxes … Continue reading
This Tech Board Adds Moto/Broadbus Vet
This Technology announced the appointment of Jeffrey Binder to its board of directors. Binder is a general partner with Genovation Capital, which works with several large private equity firms in the technology and media sectors. Binder most recently served as … Continue reading
SeaChange Back Office to Deploy in Poland
Vectra, Poland’s third-largest cable operator, will implement SeaChange International‘s (NASDAQ:SEAC) web-centric Adrenalin video back office to support its rollout of VOD this year, as well as future expansion into multiscreen services and social TV. SeaChange will demonstrate Adrenalin at the … Continue reading
ZON Taps Harmonic for Multiscreen
Portuguese cable and satellite provider ZON has chosen Harmonic‘s (NASDAQ:HLIT) portfolio of transcoding solutions as the enabling technology for a range of new multiscreen services being offered on ZON Online, including live streaming TV and VOD services on TVs, PCs, … Continue reading
Node-Based QAM Frees Up the Headend
In order to provide on-demand services like VOD, switched digital video (SDV), and increasing numbers of HD options, cable operators are faced with adding large numbers of QAM channels. Doing so involves both physical and environmental challenges that begin with … Continue reading
Tvinci to Power Euro VOD, Pay OTT
European VOD content provider EpicTV has selected Tvinci to power its pan-European service for multiple connected devices. EpicTV provides a destination for an audience interested in adventure sports. The deployment of Tvinci’s Pay-OTT platform for EpicTV is intended to enable … Continue reading
SeaChange Scores in Cyprus
SeaChange International has supplied its Adrenalin web-centric back office to Cablenet in Cyprus. The solution is designed to support VOD, time shift TV and price promotions. SeaChange installed the back office and integrated with Cablenet’s existing SeaChange STAGIS and CASIS … Continue reading
Video Infrastructure Tops $800 Million
According to Infonetics Research, following annual declines in 2009 and 2010 during the global recession, the video infrastructure market (VOD and streaming content servers and video encoders) grew 6% in 2011 to $803 million. Sequentially (from the third to the … Continue reading
VOD Ad Potential $1 Billion
According to a report from Rentrak, VOD is at the tipping point of becoming a major ad medium. The report indicates that free on-demand (FOD) content experienced 17% growth in 2011 to 6.8 billion transactions. With an average of 5 … 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
Wowza to Support Windows Azure
Wowza Media Systems announced that its customers will have the option of delivering audio and video content using Wowza Media Server 3 running in the newly announced Windows Azure Media Services. The Wowza platform will initially support on-demand streaming on … Continue reading
Hot Topic: Adaptive Bitrate VOD Transcoding
- SPONSORED CONTENT – VOD transcoding is getting a lot of attention these days. Not that it ever went out of style, but lately it’s become front and center again for many video service providers (VSPs). I am on several … Continue reading
NCTC Shuffles Staff, Eyes TV Everywhere
The Hardware department within the NCTC has been renamed the Technology Solutions Team to expand its purview to encompass a variety of solutions related to TV Everywhere, IP VOD and high-speed data. The direction and strategies will be driven largely … Continue reading