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Motorola's end-to-end portfolio, coupled with our proven expertise,
provides advanced video and media delivery technology. Our solutions for
bandwidth efficient, video-capable networks allow the delivery of
ultimate video experiences such as crystal clear high definition TV and
VOD - keeping consumers connected with their entertainment - where,
when and how they want. www.motorola.com/nab2008
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Sun Microsystems today announced an expansion of its Streaming
System video portfolio that adds small to midscale streaming of
television and IP-based video to create an IPTV system that can scale
from 100 to 160,000 simultaneous streams. The goal is to give service
providers building new video delivery networks cost-effective options
for growing their business seamlessly at a pace that makes sense for
them, said Sandeep Agrawal, group marketing manager of IP video delivery
for Sun.
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Come by the Tektronix booths and discover how we can help you solve your
video quality and delivery challenges within these key applications:
- Video over IP/IPTV network monitoring/diagnostics
- Automated QC for file-based content
- HD/SD and audio monitoring for field acquisition
- HD picture/video quality analysis
While in the booth, enter to win one of our NEW WFM5000 portable HD
Waveform Monitors. Click
here to receive a free VIP pass to NAB2008 from Tektronix.
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Content security provider Widevine today announced it would
integrate its content protection platform with Microsoft Silverlight,
the company’s crossbrowser, crossplatform media plug-in for the Web.
The partnership marks the first time Microsoft has worked with a
third-party digital rights management (DRM) content security company.
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In conjunction with the NAB Show this week in Las Vegas, MobiTV has
unveiled an enhanced version of its Optimized Delivery Server designed
for the distribution of live, clip-linear, video on demand (VOD) and
downloadable media over broadband and wireless networks. The updated
content-delivery technology is intended to optimize network use and the
user experience for mobile television.
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Mobile television is a topic attracting global attention, but not a
lot of traction to speak of, yet. With two new standards for digital
television, the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) Project aims to
expedite the market for handheld digital TV. The global industry-led
consortium will demo the new standards — the DVB-SH for mobile TV and
DVB-T2 for advanced digital broadcast transmission — in
next-generation terrestrial TV services at the NAB Show in Las Vegas
this week. DVB executive director Peter MacAvock spoke with associate
news editor Sarah Reedy about what’s holding back digital TV services
and what will drive them forward.
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A few weeks ahead of its long-anticipated formal unveiling, video
wholesaler Building B let one interesting bit of information out
yesterday. By formally unveiling Harris as provider of its network
operations center, Building B indicated it would be using digital TV
spectrum to deliver the largest part of its video offering to broadband
operators including telcos and ISPs.
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 StreamScope™ Enterprise Monitor
(EM-40)
At the 2008 NAB Show, Triveni Digital will debut its new
StreamScope™ Enterprise Monitor (EM-40) enterprise-wide
service-quality assurance solution. The StreamScope EM-40 is aimed at
proactive, real-time, service-based response. It proactively detects,
localizes, analyzes, isolates, and remedies faults impacting video
services based on predefined rules. This allows broadcasters, service
providers, and IPTV networks to reduce customer down-time and complaint
response costs by providing the user with full remote analysis
capabilities for any monitored streams. Alarms are generated when a
transport stream has fallen outside a specified configuration.
Integrated trend analysis enables engineering staff to analyze past
issues. The StreamScope EM-40 ensures:
- Network integrity
- Video quality of service
- Viewer satisfaction
- Lower customer service costs, lower churn, higher revenues
www.TriveniDigital.com
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“Managing the Digital Media Lifecycle” will take place Tuesday,
April 15, from 11:10 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. Jim Warner, vice chairman and
chief strategist of TM Forum, will be moderating the panel discussion.
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“Lessons Learned About Installing Home Networks for triple-play
IPTV Services” was held Monday, April 14, from 9-9:30 a.m., in LVCC
N234-236. Richard Nesin, president of HomePNA, and Roger Vaughn, product
manager of AFL Telecommunications, were present.
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“HD Program Delivery for Bandwidth- and Budget-Constrained
Telcos,” was held Monday, April 14, from 11:10 a.m. to 12:25 p.m. Tim
Owens, principal, Cronin Communications, moderated.
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 $10K High Definition Streaming Encoder for
IPTV Systems
New from Adtec Digital, the mediaHUB-HD is a High Definition Streaming
Encoder for IPTV Systems offered at $10K. The mediaHUB supports
distribution, contribution, live program acquisition, ad insertion and
video on demand (VOD). Go to www.adtecinc.com/products/mediaHUBHD
or NAB Booth SL6110.
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SES AMERICOM has announced that Home2US Communications, a
direct-to-home provider of international programming, has expanded its
successful relationship with SES AMERICOM to deliver additional foreign
programming to the culturally diverse U.S. market.
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Harmonic has announced that WRAL-TV in Raleigh, NC, the first
commercially licensed HD TV broadcast station in the United States,
deployed Harmonic's digital video solutions for a unique broadcast
application. Using Harmonic's DiviCom MPEG-2 HD encoders, WRAL was able
to provide real-time broadcast delivery of four simultaneous basketball
games in the 1080i HD format to the regional cable operator during the
recent NCAA National Collegiate Basketball Tournament. The simultaneous
HD broadcast was made possible by leveraging the ultra-high compression
efficiency of the MV 500 MPEG-2 encoder.
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T-VIPS, a technology company that designs, builds and supplies
solutions for contribution and distribution of broadcast-quality video
signals over IP networks, announced April 11 that WFTV, the
Orlando-based Cox-owned ABC affiliate, has deployed T-VIPS TVG420s to
transport MPEG-2 news footage from its transmitter site over a microwave
link to its studio. The TVG420 is part of T-VIPS’ Video Gateway suite,
a line of compact and powerful and cost-effective products designed for
real-time contribution and distribution of professional SD and HD video
over IP networks.
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Live mobile television in high-quality digital will be available to
mobile handsets and other portable devices by the digital transition in
February 2009, the Open Mobile Video Coalition (OMVC) promised more than
500 NAB Show attendees today. The association of more than 800
commercial and public television broadcasters hosted a panel discussion
today to share advancements since last year’s NAB announcement that it
would accelerate the development of mobile DTV.
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 Different HD-to-SD down-converting
applications may place different priorities on display quality, while a
product that is reliable and compact is always appreciated. The HD
down-converter that can shine in any application, whether feeding a
mobile unit monitor or supporting simultaneous HD and SD broadcasting
makes decision-making easy. Click here for more
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As far as customers are concerned, it’s more about TV than IPTV.
So how can service providers help customers understand such things as
eight-hour installation times, and should they even bother explaining
that the TV now has its own IP address?
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 Effective IPTV encoding isn't just
compression. It's flexibility, supporting your IPTV, Internet and mobile
initiatives simultaneously. It's efficient workflows. And it's
outstanding quality, since looks really can be everything. For live
channels, VOD or both, Digital Rapids can enhance your IPTV encoding.
Learn more at NAB booth SL8724 or our
website.
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At the NAB Show, multimedia company TANDBERG Television, a division
of the Ericsson Group, is launching its next-generation MediaPath Secure
Content Delivery System, which distributes content across any platform
or device. The end-to-end technology allows content providers, network
operators or affiliates to deliver nonlinear digital HD and SD TV
programs, advertising, music and games — from point to multipoint. The
solution is designed to allow telcos to collaborate on efficiently
delivering more content in more formats.
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Norway-based Appear TV, a global provider of next-generation
headends for broadcast and IP television, launched a software-based
redundancy provisioning that automatically maximizes service levels in
IP networks. Dubbed “always on,” the module is a seamless
integration between broadcast equipment and IP networks, designed to
increase reliability of service while decreasing the amount of operating
resources.
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Broadcast International (BI) will demonstrate live HD video encoding
at less than 3Mb/s. The company claims this is the first time in the
broadcast industry that video will be encoded from a live camera feed at
this rate of video compression. The company’s CodecSys video
compression software is now integrated with IBM’s Media Hub framework
for real-time encoding in a production broadcast workflow environment.
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Secure digital delivery provider SmartJog will demonstrate its new
Content Management automation features and Gateway server at the NAB
Show this week. In addition, the global TDF subsidiary will also
showcase its entire Content Delivery system.
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Set-top box manufacturer Amino, which was ranked world leader in the
pure IPTV STB market by ABI Research, will showcase its IPTV STBs at the
NAB Show. This is the third consecutive year that Amino has taken first
place in ABI’s rankings.
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At the NAB Show, software-based content security provider Verimatrix
will demonstrate the latest versions of its content protection software
for pay TV. For IPTV providers, the vendor will demo the latest version
of its VCAS, a protection platform designed to streamline operations for
wholesale and retail delivery models, eliminating the need for local
decryption and re-encryption at each retailer site.
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 Pilat Media provides airtime sales, traffic
and program management innovations for Broadcasting, IPTV and Mobile
TV.
Support for:
Used by Leading Tier-1 TV Operators
Book now to see a demo at NAB
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