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In the November 23, 2011 Issue:

• Sony eyes Internet TV service, says reports
• Adobe halts development of Flash Player plug-in for mobile devices
• Connect America Fund order seeks to expand reach of high-speed Internet service
• Spectrum auction decision remains unclear as deadline approaches
• Study forecasts geographic expansion of OTT
• Turner supports multi-screen initiatives with help from Digital Rapids

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 Top Story
Sony eyes Internet TV service, says reports

The electronics giant is investigating the possibility of launching its own over-the-top television service in the United States.

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 Industry News
Adobe halts development of Flash Player plug-in for mobile devices

The move will allow Adobe to increase investment in HTML5, the company said in a blogging posting earlier in the month.

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Broadcast organizations pledge closer cooperation in Shanghai
By Phil Kurz

Thirteen broadcast organizations, including ATSC, signed the Future of Broadcast Television Shanghai Declaration on Nov. 11, which among other things calls for exploring unified terrestrial broadcast standards.

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 Policy & Regulation
Connect America Fund order seeks to expand reach of high-speed Internet service

The FCC last week released its Connect America Fund order reforming universal service funding and directing resources to support greater access to broadband Internet service.

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Commission seeks comments on Spectrum Bridge white space database

The Office of Engineering and Technology wants to hear from interested parties on the recently completed 45-day trial of the database.

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 Sound Off
Spectrum auction decision remains unclear as deadline approaches

Mark Hyman, the Washington, D.C., counsel for the Sinclair Broadcast Group, discussed where the Super Committee stood on incentive auctions in his luncheon keynote Nov. 17 at the Broadcast Engineering/OMVC Mobile DTV engineering event in Burbank, Calif.

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 Technology & Trends
Study forecasts geographic expansion of OTT

A new study from IMS Research forecasts more than 133 million households worldwide will have access to OTT content in 2016. Services such as those from Netflix and Amazon will help in large measure to drive this geographic expansion.

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Prayer ministry streams HD video to further mission

The International House of Prayer has added new video encoding technology from Haivision to stream prayer meetings live on the Internet.

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Turner supports multi-screen initiatives with help from Digital Rapids

Turner’s Network Operations group is using an array of StreamZHD encoders for ingest and encoding of live sources.

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TF1 deploys Elemental Live to support multiple-platform content

TF1 uses Elemental Live to create all of the content delivered through MyTF1 portals.

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Grass Valley releases instructional videos on MediaFUSE

Hosted by Scott Matics, product manager for MediaFUSE, the video series explores the key areas where MediaFUSE can be most successfully used.

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ATEME, Techex partner on support for London Olympics

Any ATEME customer broadcasting from London before and during the games will be able to receive full backup, including telephone support and rapid delivery of spare parts.

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Wowza Media Systems, Skytide partner on integrated media server, analytics

The solution combines the Wowza Media Server 3 software with Skytide's Insight for CDNs analytics and reporting application.

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Imagine Communications demonstrates transcoding software at SCTE

The ICE Cloud Software System is Imagine's new low-delay, Linux-based distributed architecture transcoder.

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