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03/14/2012
Platform Upgrade Targets IPTV Providers
San Diego-based Imagine Communications, a provider of advanced digital video solutions and a member of the newly formed DASH Promoters Group, cut over a system upgrade to its ICE Video Platform that gives system operators a single unified appliance for processing HD and SD IPTV streams as well as Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) streams for […]
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03/14/2012
Usage-Based Billing Is Acceptable, If The Price Is Right
After learning from an unsuccessful rollout of usage-based pricing a few years back, Time Warner Cable last month announced it would make another foray into broadband caps. Introducing a discount plan that rewards a 5 GB cap with $5 in monthly savings, the operator has once again stirred up conversation regarding the future of unlimited […]
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03/13/2012
Hyatt Upgrades In-Room iTV Services
Hospitality interactive-TV provider Roomlinx Inc. signed a master service agreement with an affiliate of Hyatt Hotels Corporation that will allow it to offer such integrated ?hotel technologies as in-room entertainment, high-speed Internet, video on demand and HDTV programming for participating Hyatt hotels and resorts in North America and the Caribbean. The roll out will begin […]
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03/13/2012
Get Ready To Click To Contribute
Well, it is an election year, after all. Strategy & Technology (S&T), which deals in technologies for interactive-TV deployment, teamed with interactive-TV-fulfillment platform provider icueTV to integrate the S&T TSBroadcaster carousel streamer and the icueTV fulfillment platform that features the "Click to Text" political campaign donation application. The two will demonstrate the finished integration […]
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03/13/2012
With Advent Of MPEG-4, MPEGIF Goes OIPF
Coming soon: The MPEG Industry Forum (MPEGIF) will merge with the Open IPTV Forum (OIPF), now that its work to promote MPEG-4 Part 10 (aka H.264) as the dominant codec in next-generation video technology and the successor to MPEG-2 is done. ? Such a merger is not unknown. In 2011, the Broadcast Mobile Convergence Forum […]
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03/13/2012
The 21.7 Tbps Fiber Trial
For the second year in a row, Verizon and NEC Corporation of America said they transmitted high bit-rate technologies over field fiber, with their latest trial sending 21.7 terabits per second (1 terabit equals 1,000 gigabits) – the highest capacity to date – under field conditions.?? The 2012 trial was performed earlier this year on […]