Nevion goes green at IBC
At IBC2009, the company announced that its entire product line is becoming environmentally friendly....
Mexican election authority acquires Volicon Observer systems
The electoral institute will use 219 Volicon Observers to monitor more than 2300 TV and radio stations to ensure political ads comply with Mexican election laws....
Miniweb unveils list of content aggregators for broadband TV devices
The content aggregators include AlltheContent, blinkx, Diva, Film 24 and The Vu Group....
T-VIPS compresses 3-D HD with JPEG2000 gateway, transports via IP link
During IBC2009, T-VIPS demonstrated how its JPEG2000 gateway can be used to compress 3-D HD material and transport it over an IP link....
OASYS rolls out Version 5 software
Version 5 includes new features such as enhanced remote viewing of playlists across the OASYS range....
Signiant unveils latest CDM software update
Version 8.2 of the company’s Content Distribution Management software allows media companies to build in interconnecting networks to work more efficiently....
Telecast Fiber Systems introduces TeleCube interface
The TeleCube Modular Media Interface offers active input/output connectors to enable flexible product configuration....
New York Met Opera, Dutch police receive IBC honors
The Metropolitan Opera of New York City received the IBC International Honor for Excellence for its implementation of an HD production and satellite distribution project that’s bringing the opera to cities worldwide. ...
IBC2009 attendance off 7 percent from previous gathering
Despite the decline in attendance, Michael Crimp, chief operating officer of IBC, declared the gathering a success....
GSM Association endorses IMB wireless standard
IMB provides enough capacity to offer 20 television channels of excellent quality in a single 5MHz slice of spectrum....
Virgin Media upgrades digital TV platform with Cisco IP technology
Virgin Media will deploy Cisco technology in all of its regional and central headends to enable growth in SD and HDTV....
IBC reflects an industry in slow recovery
Attendance was down but enthusiasm was up....
U.S. government and California to cut energy consumption for TV sets
TV set manufacturers that want to display the Energy Star logo will have to cut the power use of flat-panel television sets....
Mr. Smith goes to NAB
Gordon H. Smith, the NAB's new president, is a former two-term U.S. Senator from Oregon and is versed in technology-related issues....
Smaller stations still haven’t figured out archiving
Larger organizations like the various sports leagues and the major TV networks have done a good job of figuring out how to save and repurpose their material, but local stations are lagging far behind....
