Focus: Broadcasting

[Via Satellite 09-24-2015] Canal+ Overseas, the internationally focused subsidiary of Canal+, has partnered with Enensys to rollout its Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) platform in Africa. TNT Africa, a multi-country sub-Saharan Africa project, is designed to work alongside the broadcaster’s existing Direct-to-Home (DTH) service Les Bouquets Canal+. Enensys is supplying the key content insertion and regionalization...

[Via Satellite 09-23-2015] Nagra has shipped its anyCAST Command product to Echostar Technologies for use in the company’s production of 4K-capable Set-Top Boxes (STBs) for EchoStar’s joint clients. In addition to supporting 4K services, the technology circumvents popular forms of piracy such as control word sharing. Nagra’s anyCAST Command, part of the company’s new anyCAST...

[Via Satellite 09-23-2015] SIS Live has signed a distribution agreement with Eutelsat Broadband to use and resell its NewsSpotter newsgathering service. Using Eutelsat’s KA-SAT satellite, SIS Live’s NewsSpotter service delivers bandwidth up to 10 Mbps, supporting transmissions of live video and audio in SD and HD. SIS Live offers a diverse range of occasional use...

[Via Satellite 09-21-2015] Astro Malaysia Holdings Berhad, the top pay-TV provider in Malaysia, anticipates adding 50,000 additional subscribers during fiscal year 2016. The company announced it gained 15,000 more subscribers while reporting its financial results for the first six months of fiscal year 2016, ending Jan. 31, 2016, and launched seven new channels. Investors view...

[Via Satellite 09-18-2015] SES Platform Services, a subsidiary of SES, has selected 3 Screen Solutions (3SS), a customized software solutions and services provider for multiscreen digital entertainment, to provide development and integration services for Lucid OVP. Announced at IBC 2015, Lucid OVP is a new turnkey multiscreen video platform from SES Platform Services designed to...

[Via Satellite 09-18-2015] Avanti and Motion Picture Solutions (MPS), a London-based international film services company, have signed a multi-year cinema distribution contract. Using Avanti’s Hylas 1 and 2 satellites and delivered through MPS’ LANsat technology, the partnership expands MPS’ bandwidth available for multicast feature film distribution to its cinema-chain customer base. According to Avanti, many...

[Via Satellite 09-16-2015] Hellas Sat, a subsidiary of Arabsat, has selected Newtec to power a new multimillion euro Direct-to-Home (DTH) Earth station. Located in Cyprus, the Earth station will broadcast up to 70 TV channels, 10 percent of which will be delivered in High Definition (HD). Newtec will be the prime contractor, designer and integrator...

[Via Satellite 09-16-2015] MaxLinear has released a new family of four-channel Full Spectrum Capture (FSC) tuner-demodulator devices for Ultra-High Definition (Ultra-HD) Personal Video Recorders (PVRs) in the satellite pay-TV market. The new four-channel Integrated Circuits (ICs) include the MxL541C, with a single L-band (950 to 2150MHz) Radio Frequency (RF) input and the MxL542C, with dual...

[Via Satellite 09-15-2015] Eutelsat Communications has signed up a number of customers in Africa and in Europe for broadcast services, and also tightened it’s collaboration with Internet of Things (IoT) pioneer Sigfox. New broadcast customers are planning to launch collectively more than 175 channels, with the transition from analogue to digital opening up new doors...

[Via Satellite 09-15-2015] The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is launching the world’s first non-commercial Ultra-HD channel with partners SES and Harmonic on Nov. 1, following preliminary testing. The space agency channel will feature Ultra-HD video sourced from high-resolution images and video generated on the International Space Station (ISS) and other current NASA...