April 18, 2013

Featured News

Zeebox and Vizrt Partner to Bring Second Screen Content to TV

Broadcasters can now instantly poll their viewers or have them vote on an outcome through a tablet or smartphone.

Thomson Adds HEVC Support to Vibe Encoding System

Taking the lead on HEVC, Thomson adds live and file-based encoding which it will demonstrate at NAB.

RGB Networks Launches Next-Gen MPEG-2/H.264 Transcoder

Company says Video Multiprocessing Gateway Gen 2 increases video quality and operational efficiency by doubling the capacity of each transcoding module

Featured Articles

Voting Open for 2013 European Readers' Choice Awards

The nominations are in; now it's time for our readers to have their say

BBC Stagebox Points Way for Broadcast Production over IP

Stagebox combines broadcast feeds and cabling—including HD video, audio, talkback, timecode, and more—and distributes them over standard IP protocol. BBC will begin deploying with next month's local elections.

EutelSat's NewsSpotter Ka-Sat Challenges Cellular Multiplexers on Cost and Time-to-Air

While cellular multiplexers have brought efficient, "good enough" streaming from the field within reach, EutelSat's Ka-Sat turns out to be competitive on both price and quality, with better SLA

Industry News

Akamai Goes Deep with Sola Analytics Viewer Diagnostics

New addition to Sola Analytics media measurement and analysis product provides viewer-level service data for subscriber troubleshooting and QoS

iStreamPlanet Announces Aventus Beta Release and Media Technology Partners

Microsoft and Turner Broadcasting Previewing Aventus for Multiscreen Live Event and Live Linear Deployments

Fire Radio UK expands viewer engagement with VidiGo Visual Radio

Fire Radio signed with VidiGo to expand it’s viewer engagement with VidiGo Visual Radio. Visual Radio enables engaging radio content for multiple platforms like TV, web and mobile. Because of a fully automated workflow there is no need for high costs

Media Group International Announces New Partnership With never.no

As part of its forward-thinking approach to bring the very latest solutions to its customers, leading systems integrator Media Group International has announced a new partnership with never.no – a world renowned company that specialises in social media in