Focus: Broadcasting

[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 business model is still a hefty challenge. Speaking at the conference’s “To Stream or Not Stream: What Content Owners Should Consider When Going OTT” on...

[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 for future content distribution with High Efficiency Video Codec HEVC compression and Digital Video Broadcasting-Satellite Second Generation X (DVB-S2X) advanced modulation technologies. The Arris DSR-7400...

[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. Mark Billinge, OSN CTO, believes these new digital players are not having much of an impact on OSN. Speaking to Via Satellite, he claimed OSN’s...

[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 creating and delivering live and pre-recorded Ultra-HD content. This first release of the guidelines lets the Ultra-HD Forum’s growing membership of 46 organizations target deployments...

[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 sales — a key indicator of consumer acceptance — will reach a projected 48.1 million in 2016, up from just 900,000 in 2013. The research...

[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 refresh its Electronic News-Gathering (ENG) and Digital Satellite News-Gathering (DSNG) fleet. The upgrade will also bring the company into full compliance with the Federal Communications...

[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 market. In November last year, Tricolor TV announced it had started to broadcast its Ultra-HD package, which included two new Ultra-HD TV channels: Tricolor Ultra HD and Insight UHD. Subscribers...

[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 future expansion opportunities. The partnership aims to provide a high-performance and cost-effective STB solution with next-generation security tailored specifically for the India market. Through this...

[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 solution in meeting the growing demand for streaming Over-The-Top (OTT) video. Conducted at the Wireless Information Network Lab (WINLAB) at Rutgers University, the initial demonstrations...

[Via Satellite 04-19-2016] Inmarsat is performing its first transcontinental live demonstration of Global Xpress (GX) broadcast capabilities during the NAB Show in Las Vegas, Nev. The demonstration features a live broadcast from Rio de Janeiro via GX. Following the launch of its Global Xpress service for broadcasters last month, and combined with a portfolio of...