Focus: Broadcasting

Satellite and broadcast industry professionals convened in Las Vegas, Nev. on April 8, 2014 for the 4K Technology Breakfast hosted by Via Satellite, Intelsat and Ericsson Television. During the session, the

There was more urgency than usual among the more than 600 executives that attended Asia’s leading event for television and broadband industries last month in Bali. Top players taking part at the fifth annual APOS event in April, organized by Media Partners Asia (MPA), had a keen eye on how the leading brands in media...

[Via Satellite 05-22-2014] RRsat has expanded its broadcast solutions for Taiwanese cable TV network Eastern Broadcasting Company’s (ETTV) subsidiary ETTV America in a new three-year contract. Under the original contact, RRsat delivered six ETTV channels along with three affiliate channels from RRsat’s Los Angeles Point-of-Presence (POP) to Dish Network‘s media hubs in the U.S., which...

[Via Satellite 05-22-2014] Eutelsat has sold Eutelsat visAvision GmbH to M7A Group, trading under the name of M7 Deutschland. Eutelsat visAvision GmbH is the operator of the KabelKiosk platform of digital channels and interactive services for cable and Internet Protocol television (IPTV) networks in Germany. With the sale, M7A Group, an affiliate of M7 Group,...

[Via Satellite 05-21-2014] Rockwell Collins has developed a new satellite reception technology to increase the reliability of the company’s Tailwind 550 Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) TV system for private jets and large businesses. The new technology is part of the DBS system’s antenna and will provide 25 percent more coverage for all of Rockwell Collins’...

[Via Satellite 05-21-2014] Inverto Digital Labs has chosen Entropic’s EN5520 digital Channel Stacking Switch (dCSS) to power its Unicable 2 Multi-switch and Low Noise Block (LNB) products. The dCSS solution provides 24 user bands to support more tuners and demodulators as Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) operators shift toward gateway/client architectures. The solution is a single-chip...

[Via Satellite 05-19-2014] On Sunday May 18, 2014, AT&T announced its entrance into a definitive agreement to purchase DirecTV. Rumors of the potential purchase came on the heels of, and effectively quelled, speculation that Dish would purchase the pay-TV giant. The total transaction is valued at $67.1 billion, including DirecTV’s net debt, and implies a...

[Via Satellite 05-19-2014] Technicolor signed an agreement with Tata Sky, a Direct-to-Home (DTH) service provider in India, to provide 4K Set-Top Boxes (STBs) in a mass-volume order starting in early 2015. The order is part of a long-standing relationship with Tata Sky starting in 2005 and builds on Technicolor’s strategy to deliver a content experience...

[Via Satellite 05-14-2014] Elemental Technologies began providing Stofa, a Danish pay-TV operator and Internet Service Provider (ISP), with video processing solutions to package and manage live linear channels in real-time. Elemental’s video infrastructure customizes 150 channels, 38 of which are in High-Definition (HD), for delivery to Stofa customers. Stofa provides a range of services to...

[Via Satellite 05-13-2014] British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB) has responded to speculation on its potential acquisition of Sky Deutschland and Sky Italia from 21st Century Fox. The entertainment and communications company expressed its plans to expand the company’s business in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and, as part of this plan, held preliminary discussions with...