Broadcast (Cable TV, DTH Satellite, Terrestrial) News

NimbleTV to add nine more US cities
May 20, 2014 – NimbleTV has announced its latest domestic expansion plans. NimbleTV enables customers with a cable subscription to watch TV from any location, on any device.
News categories: NimbleTV, Anand Subramanian, Apps, Cable TV, Digital TV, Mobile, TV Everywhere, USA

Liberty Global selects Irdeto Rights to secure video services on consumer devices
May 20, 2014 – Irdeto (JSE: NPN) has announced a new deployment of Irdeto Rights with Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK). Liberty Global will be using Irdeto Rights to deliver content securely to IP devices.
News categories: Irdeto, Liberty Global, Graham Kill, Cable TV, Content Protection, Digital TV, Europe, TV Everywhere

HTTV to provide HbbTV head-end to Sentech
May 20, 2014 – HTTV has announced that it will supply httvStream, its flagship Head End product, to enable Sentech and South African broadcasters to deploy HbbTV services on Sentech's Direct To Home - Satellite (DTH - S) Platform.
News categories: HTTV, Sentech, Régis Saint Girons, Gordon Maynar, ANGA COM, Content Distribution, Digital TV, HbbTV, Satellite, South Africa

AX Technology STBs to support GT-SAT channel-stacking protocol
May 20, 2014 – GT-SAT and AX Technology have announced the implementation of the dHello channel-stacking protocol in AX Technology's Opticum range of satellite receivers.
News categories: GT-SAT, AX Technology, Guil Mediouni, ANGA COM, LNB, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box, Worldwide

ARRIS unveils additions to its European cable CPE portfolio
May 20, 2014 – ARRIS (Nasdaq: ARRS) has unveiled five new CPE solutions for European cable operators. These solutions address demand for quick and reliable content access on a variety of devices—with the latest wireless technology and attractive form factors.
News categories: ARRIS Group, Steve McCaffery, ANGA COM, Cable Modem, Cable TV, Europe, Set Top Box, Smart Home

Cubiware CubiTV middleware licensed by Vodafone Iceland
May 20, 2014 – Cubiware and Sofia Digital, its Value Added Reseller, have announced the signing of a middleware licensing agreement with Vodafone Iceland. The agreement licenses the operator to deploy CubiTV on Vodafone Iceland set-top boxes (STBs).
News categories: Cubiware, Sofia Digital, Vodafone, Mika Kanerva, Maciej Grzonkowski, Digital TV, Iceland, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Teracom demonstrates HEVC Ultra HD over DVB-T2 with Thomson Video Networks
May 19, 2014 – Teracom is using Thomson Video Networks’ ViBE™ VS7000 video system, NetProcessor 9030/40 multiplexer, and Sapphire MPEG stream server to demonstrate DVB-T2 delivery of HEVC-encoded video.
News categories: Thomson Video Networks, Teracom, Håkan Axén, Christophe Delahousse, Content Distribution, DVB-T2, Sweden

Major U.S. pay TV providers add 260,000 subscribers in 1Q 2014
May 19, 2014 – LRG has found that the thirteen largest multi-channel video providers in the US added about 260,000 net video subscribers in 1Q 2014, compared to a gain of about 230,000 video subscribers in 1Q 2013.
News categories: Leichtman Research Group, Bruce Leichtman, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, USA

Czech republic begins UltraHD trial broadcasting over DVB-T2
May 19, 2014 – České Radiokomunikace (CRa) and Českou televizí (Czech TV - ČT) have announced that on May 13th they began test broadcasting in Ultra HDTV format over CRa's DVB-T2 network.
News categories: České Radiokomunikace, Českou televizí, Content Distribution, Czech Republic, Digital TV, DVB-T2