Focus: Broadcasting

[Via Satellite 04-22-2016] Despite challenges with current economic conditions, Direct-to-Home (DTH) satellite service provider ViewSat is adding roughly half a dozen new channels a month from broadcasters in Africa. The...

[Via Satellite 04-21-2016] Leaders in the Over-the-Top (OTT) video market agreed at the NAB Show in Las Vegas, Nev., that though nonlinear media has exploded in popularity, making a profitable...

[Via Satellite 04-20-1016] HBO has selected Arris International’s DSR-7400 series transcoder satellite receiver to support the optimization of its current MPEG 2 and 4 distribution platforms as well as prepare...

[Via Satellite 04-20-2016] OSN, the Middle East Direct-to-Home (DTH) television provider, believes it will keep a strong position in the pay-TV market despite the entrance of Netflix and similar services....

[Via Satellite 04-20-2016] The Ultra-HD Forum, a global organization defining industry best practices for technologies to enable Ultra-HD, has released its first phase of industry guidelines on end-to-end workflows for...

[Via Satellite 04-20-2016] Ultra-HD continues to grow in popularity, and some of the first full commercial satellite channels have launched over the past few months. According to Statista, 4K television...

[Via Satellite 04-20-2016] Tribune Broadcasting, a TV station operator reaching more than 50 million households in the United States, has selected DTV Innovations’ high-definition video encoder with internal modulator to...

[Via Satellite 04-19-2016] Tricolor TV is one of the main satellite TV players in Russia and has been one of the first DTH operators to launch Ultra-HD services into the...

[Via Satellite 04-19-2016] ALi Corporation, a Set-Top Box (STB) chipset provider, and DishTV, Asia’s largest Direct-to-Home (DTH) operator, have entered a strategic partnership to enhance existing DTH operations and target...

[Via Satellite 04-19-2016] SES announced the first phase of Content Delivery Network (CDN) development at Rutgers University’s School of Engineering to demonstrate and measure the effectiveness of SES’s CDN overlay...