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According to Digital TV Research, HDTV household penetration will soon be high enough in developed countries for broadcasters and pay TV operators to consider ending their standard definition (SD) transmissions. The research house expects HD-ready penetration to double from 25.9% … Continue reading
Extreme Reach released its “Q2 HD Advertising Trends Report,” indicating a 50% increase in HD ad distribution over the last six months, a significant shift from the two previous quarters. One year ago, HD ads made up about 10% of … Continue reading
EchoStar Technologies announced the launch of three HD set-top boxes specifically designed to enable mid-sized and independent cable operators to economically leverage their interactive advantage in delivering enhanced video. EchoStar’s HC-620DRS, HC-410D and HX-410 set-tops come with IP-based content management … Continue reading
ESPN plans to use Motorola Mobility‘s video distribution solution to transition all programming for ESPN and ESPN-2 networks to an MPEG-4 HD format, with the intention of freeing up bandwidth to increase the number of HD services offered. Motorola’s solution … Continue reading
Blonder Tongue Laboratories will demonstrate its newest solutions for HDTV, SDTV and IPTV applications including the IPAT, HDE-2H-QAM and HDE-2S-QAM, and SD/AV10E-QAM at the NAB Show in April in Las Vegas. The IPAT is the company’s latest release. Designed for IPTV … Continue reading
Multicom‘s MrM (Multicom Remote Monitoring) True 24×7 is designed for minute-by-minute, proactive monitoring and automated intervention services for hospitality HDTV systems. It features a real-time hotel web portal displaying system status, activities, and other details on computers as well as … Continue reading
At CCBN2011 in Beijing, BigBand Networks will showcase solutions designed to enable Chinese service providers to optimize bandwidth, expand their channel lineups and make the shift to carry more HD programming, for both linear and on-demand delivery. BigBand demos are … Continue reading
Multicom‘s Mpro-HD is a Pro:Idiom HDTV solution for the hospitality market and is designed to provide encryption of HD programming, eliminate set-top boxes, provide hotel HD programming cost savings, and ensure hotel guest satisfaction within one turnkey headend system. The … Continue reading
LG Electronics USA awarded Multicom the Pro:Idiom service provider license. Multicom now may directly offer Pro:Idiom-based HDTV encryption systems to the hospitality industry in North America and worldwide. Multicom is now also certified in a variety of LG Electronics hospitality … Continue reading
Extreme Reach‘s Q4 “HD Advertising Trends Report” indicates a marked increase in HD advertising adoption rates in retail and automotive verticals, but a flat adoption rate across the advertising industry as a whole. For the report, Extreme Reach analyzed HD … Continue reading
Charm Communications (http://ir.charmgroup.cn), an advertising agency in China, has signed an exclusive advertising agency agreement with Beijing Gehua Cable TV Network to operate digital media advertising on its interactive HDTV platform. Gehua Cable is a digital cable TV operator in … Continue reading
Roku (www.roku.com) has launched a new line of HD streaming players. With up to 1080p HD streaming support and Instant Replay, the new players are shipping immediately at prices starting from $59.99. All models feature HD playback as well as … Continue reading
Horizon Telcom (www.horizontel.com), a telecommunications provider serving rural southern Ohio for the past 115 years, is using RGB Networks‘ (www.rgbnetworks.com) Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG) to increase the number of HDTV channels that it offers its IPTV subscribers. Horizon has deployed … Continue reading
