Focus: Broadcasting

[Via Satellite 03-18-2014] Eutelsat Communications has released results of its new survey on TV reception modes and trends across the Middle East and North Africa. The survey found that satellite is the preferred digital infrastructure across the Middle East and North Africa, and that 29 percent of homes in the area are equipped with HDTV,...

[Via Satellite 03-17-2014] Analysts at the Arab Advisors Group research company expect  pay-TV services in the Middle East to grow at a steady pace from 2014 to 2017. In a recent report titled “Satellite Pay TV in the Arab World: KPIs and Projections,” subscriptions in the Middle East are expected to generate $2.5 billion in...

[Via Satellite 03-11-2014] Ericsson has signed an agreement with Telespazio to expand their current service offering to include MPEG-4 AVC HD and SD channels, while still maintaining the existing MPEG-2 SD channels. Telespazio will continue to use its existing Ericsson multiplexer platform and current transponder space, resulting in cost-saving benefits for the company. The deployment...

[Via Satellite 03-07-2014] Sri Lanka–based Dialog Television Limited has selected Kratos Defense and Security Solutions subsidiary Integral Systems Europe Limited (Kratos ISE UK) to deliver multiple satellite Earth stations and a video platform for integration to Dialog’s transmission facilities in Sri Lanka. The system includes a 10-terminal redundant content-ingest Earth station farm, a play-out automation...

[Via Satellite 03-06-2014] The rapid growth of consumer devices is changing the adoption of 4K content. Increasingly, devices other than televisions are becoming capable of distributing 4K, making the pathways for content equally more numerous. This complication actually makes 4K easier to implement in some circumstances, but ultimately this presents a need for new pipelines...

[Via Satellite 03-05-2014] Entropic has appointed Vahid Manian to senior vice president of the company’s global engineering and operations division. Under this role, Manian will be responsible for Entropic’s global engineering and operations organizations including hardware and software product development, technical operations, quality and supply management. Michael Farese will assume the role of CTO, where...

[Via Satellite 03-05-2014] Advantech Wireless will present its new UltraLinear GaN based Solid State Power Amplifier (SSPA) Systems at SATELLITE 2014 in Washington, D.C. These new SSPAs provide high performance in multicarrier mode, making them ideal for large teleports and the broadcast industry. Advantech’s broadcast modulator MSBM-500 offers a digital broadcast match for GaN SSPA...

[Via Satellite 03-05-2014] Thailand-based TrueVisions has selected Nevion to provide live media transport solutions to meet the needs of its expanded HD offerings. Nevion has worked with Thailand broadcast equipment provider Strong Brothers 1961 to provide the infrastructure needed to deliver TrueVisions’ new services. The media solutions provided to TrueVisions include Nevion Flashlink multiplexers and...

[Via Satellite 03-04-2014] RRsat Global Communications Network has signed a five-year, $11.7 million agreement with a customer in Asia. The agreement is one of the largest in RRsat’s history but, due to confidentiality agreements, the name of the customer was not disclosed. Under this agreement, RRsat will provide content acquisition, media processing and distribution services...

[Via Satellite 03-03-2014] GS Group presented a new DTH broadcasting project for Indonesia at Jakarta, the IX inter-governmental commission on trade, economic and technical cooperation. Nikolay Maystrenko, head of the business development unit for the department for foreign broadcasting projects at GS Group, spoke to Dmitry Rogozin, deputy chairman of the Government of the Russian...