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06/22/2011
SNL Kagan Report Shows China's Growing Relevance in Pay-TV
An analysis of China’s pay-TV market by SNL Kagan finds that while China has long been the world’s largest multichannel market in terms of subscribers, 2011 revenues of $7.5 billion are set to surpass Japan for the first time, ranking China as the top pay-TV market in Asia and the 5th largest in the world. […]
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06/22/2011
SeaChange, Civolution Partner for Watermarking
SeaChange International and Civolution are collaborating to offer NexGuard forensic watermarking for premium video-on-demand (VOD) including "Home Premiere" movies that Hollywood studios grant early access to. The NexGuard application for cable VOD includes a content pre-processing phase to ensure ease of integration, scalability and performance upon streaming in MPEG-2 or H.264. To offer the most […]
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06/22/2011
Why Cox Is a Business-Services Frontrunner
Now that Cox’s business unit has passed the $1 billion revenue mark, it has set its sights on the second billion. (For more, see Cox Business Generates $1 Billion in Annual Sales). Phil Meeks, Cox Business senior vice president, was reaching out last week at the Cable Show with some talking points. "We’re off to […]
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06/21/2011
China’s Mobile Handset Market Booms
According to ABI Research entitled “Chinese Smartphone OEMs and ODMs,” 2010 marked a year of outstanding growth for China’s handset market: unit shipments saw a 17 percent increase from 2009, with smartphone shipments accounting for 11 percent of the total. “The smartphone growth trend is expected to continue at least through the next five years,” […]
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06/21/2011
Telecom Italia Monitors Video With Tektronix
Telecom Italia Media Broadcasting (TIMB), Italy’s third largest digital television broadcaster, is using the Tektronix Sentry digital content monitor to ensure picture and sound quality. ??TIMB has deployed Sentry in its central headend and several other key locations in its network to monitor all of its high definition (HD) and standard definition (SD) programming to […]
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06/21/2011
Amdocs Upgrades Smart Pack, Sponsors Cable Center Committee
Amdocs is making enhancements to its Multi-Play Smart Pack solution to allow greater flexibility for mid-tier and independent cable TV operators. Smart Pack is a comprehensive multi-play customer care and billing solution that enables support for video services, high-speed Internet and telephony. Smart Pack enhancements include: Amdocs Smart Agent Desktop, which provides customer service representatives […]