Advanced Television

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thePlatform simplifies live event publishing

Recognising that historically, media companies have needed to juggle separate back-end systems for managing live online events and the rest of their premium video assets, white-label video publishing company thePlatform has introduced a single Web-based console to schedule and manage live signal acquisition and encoding, handle dynamic advertising insertion and metadata creation, and automatically archive […]

May 7, 2013

Ericsson disaster recovery for broadcasters

Being off air is perhaps the one thing that all broadcasters fear most, and yet the prohibitive cost of redundant broadcasting systems means that few broadcasters can afford them. To overcome this problem, Ericsson is cooperating with Front Porch Digital – the global leader in content storage management (CSM) solutions – to provide a cost-effective […]

April 10, 2013

Elemental for Warner

Elemental Technologies, the leading supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery,  announced that Warner Bros. has deployed Elemental Server video processing systems to enhance its Emmy Award-winning Digital End-to-End (DETE) content workflow and distribution system. Elemental Server drives large-scale content conversion while significantly reducing the physical, power and heating footprint required to output studio-grade […]

April 9, 2013

Cloud based TV revenue take off

Cloud-based TV service revenues will increase from $120 million in 2013 to more than $750 milion by 2017, according to Multimedia Research Group. Most of those revenues will be cloud services for cable operators, followed by satellite and then IPTV. The market for cloud services for pay-TV operators is just starting and vendors are racing […]

April 5, 2013