Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite TODAY 03-29-11] U.K. digital entertainment solutions provider Amino Technologies secured a follow-on order to provide its hybrid, over-the-top (OTT) technology to support Telecom Italia‘s Cubovision broadband service deployment, Amino announced March 28.     Cubovision, launched in December, aims to offer customers access to a range of digital terrestrial TV channels, web TV sources and...

[Satellite News 03-25-11] Speaking at the IP & TV World Forum in London, DirecTV Senior Vice President of Engineering Henry Derovanessian talked of the operator’s strategy to leverage its recently launched iPad application and how it is working as its TV apps store quickly reached 100,000 downloads. The DirecTV app launch, part of a satellite...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-25-11] Amino Communications is shopping for partnership deals with satellite pay-TV providers to deploy its Over-The-Top (OTT) television box Freedom Jump, Amino CEO Andrew Burke told Satellite TODAY Insider at the IP and TV World Forum in London.     “It is out in trial now with a number of satellite and cable...

[Satellite TODAY 03-25-11] Indian satellite operators criticized India’s government for instituting taxation policies that show “preferential tax treatment of cable operators over satellite,” according to a CASBAA statement issued March 24 from the organization’s forum in New Delhi.    The complaints focused on India’s 35 percent DTH tax, which were characterized as an “unheard-of burden...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-24-11] Radio DJ Howard Stern is suing his employer, Sirius XM Radio for allegedly refusing to give him performance-based stock options that were promised in the $500 million contract he signed with the satellite radio broadcaster in 2004, Sirius XM announced.     In a statement, Stern’s representatives claimed that Sirius XM offered...

[Satellite TODAY 03-24-11] Independent digital TV receiver testing company Digital TV Labs has extended its available services under its DVB-T2 deployment consultancy offering for the broadcast industry, the company announced March 23.     Digital TV Labs will now provide a range of broadcast testing services, including: conformance regime and specification consultancy; receiver test specifications; test...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-23-11] DirecTV signed a contract with NDS to develop addressable advertising insertion technology and enhanced audience measurement capabilities for the pay-TV operator’s platform, DirecTV announced March 22.     NDS will deliver key elements of its dynamic advertising solutions suite, including local DVR video ad insertion and advertising audience measurement capabilities. The NDS...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-23-11] Over-the-top (OTT) TV viewers will outnumber IP TV viewers by 2013 as the popularity of services such as BBC iPlayer and Netflix continues to accelerate at an astonishing pace, according to Informa Telecoms Media research issued March 22.     “By 2015, 380 million people globally will view online video via connected...

[Satellite TODAY 03-22-11] Indian broadcaster Sun TV signed a multi-year, multi-transponder lease with Intelsat for C-band capacity on the IS-17 satellite located at the 66 degrees East orbital location, the operator announced March 21.     Sun TV will migrate its 20 channels to IS-17 and use the capacity to expand its SD and HD programming...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-22-11] NovelSat’s third-generation NS3 satellite transmission technology aims to increase satellite bandwidth capacity by 20 percent to 55 percent more than current DVB-S2 and DVB-S standards, respectively, the company announced March 17.     While demonstrating NS3 at the SATELLITE 2011 conference, NovelSat CEO Itzik Wulkan told Satellite TODAY Insider that the new...