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09/14/2011
Rohde & Schwarz Offers New TV Test Receivers
Rohde & Schwarz says its EFL240 and EFL340 portable TV test receivers ?for installing and servicing receiver systems can handle cable, satellite and terrestrial television. The new test receivers feature a variety of measurement functions for digital and analog TV standards and FM sound broadcasting. The EFL340 supports DVB-T2, the latest digital TV generation. Both […]
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09/14/2011
Envivio Updates Multi-Screen Encoding, Transcoding
Envivio has introduced version 3.0 firmware for its 4Caster C4 multi-profile encoding/transcoding solution. Version 3.0 adds support for MPEG-2 encoding and IP statistical multiplexing of H.264 and MPEG-2 video streams for cable and satellite broadcast services. The new firmware adds several features: IP Statmux: Integrated statistical multiplexing eliminates points of failure since an external multiplexer is […]
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09/14/2011
Senator Calls on Operators to Offer Energy-Efficient Set-Tops
In a letter to the CEO’s of the country’s largest cable and satellite providers, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has called for the phase-out of energy inefficient set-top boxes and digital video recorders, urging instead the introduction of models that can reduce consumer utility bills. “These ‘always on’ boxes do not have meaningful standby or sleep […]
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09/14/2011
JDSU Leads Development of TCP Throughput Test Methodology
JDSU has developed a new test methodology, known as RFC 6349, in collaboration with two global network operators. It was recently published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), an organization dedicated to developing and promoting Internet standards, as a repeatable service activation test method for managed IP networks. RFC 6349 benefits include: ?Customer satisfaction […]
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09/14/2011
Turner Allows Cablevision Subs to View Content Outside the Home
Cablevision Systems’ iO TV customers can now access full-length TBS, TNT, CNN, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, and truTV shows on the Web and on their iPad, iPhone and iPod touch devices, wherever they are. The availability of Turner TV Everywhere, which includes live-streaming of CNN and HLN, enhances the customer experience that began with the […]
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09/14/2011
Despite Ramped PR Efforts, LightSquared Can’t Beat Gov’t Scrutiny
In yet another blow to LightSquared, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a public notice stating that LightSquared may not commence Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) operations until the FCC and National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) find that GPS interference concerns have been satisfactorily resolved. (For more, see LightSquared’s Heavy Regulatory, Technical Burdens. Will It […]