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This year's IBC conference will highlight broadcasting’s current obsessions, which include some old topics such as workflow alongside social media and connected TV....More

It looks like Liberty Global, the world’s leading cable operator, will finally launch its Horizon connected TV box in September....More

The EBU exploited the London Olympics for its first large-scale trial of MPEG-DASH streaming to personal devices....More

The LE-3G enables video legalization parameters to be corrected automatically, ensuring full compliance with industry-agreed regulations for broadcast signal delivery....More

Discovery Networks International (DNI), the worldwide TV content provider, is bringing a companion TV app to Europe after testing it in Latin America....More

EBU Director General Ingrid Deltenre showed her Olympic fervor by running a leg of the Olympic Torch Relay in London as it neared the end of its journey....More

The European Commission has waved through Cisco’s $5 billion purchase of UK-based middleware and content security vendor NDS....More

Perhaps no other trend is doing more to shape today’s media landscape than multiplatform content delivery, driven by the explosion in mobile devices and consumers’ growing and insatiable appetite for content they can access “anytime and anywhere.” Broadcasting operations that were designed for traditional, linear transmissions are becoming much more complex, with many more elements being added to the transmission chain and the requirement to deliver every possible transport stream — satellite, cable, free to air, Web streaming, and delivery to different plat...More

Professional Communications Systems (PCS) had the unique task of building an in-house broadcast facility for two separate TV station groups sharing the same facility — WJBF (ABC) and WAGT (NBC) in Augusta, GA. The new building, which previously was a Barnes & Noble bookstore, houses both studios and control rooms, each with separate master controls. All share one broadcast core and a central newsroom....More

Remember those Easter egg hunts of childhood? As adults, some of us have found ourselves again exposed to them.  In software, for example, an Easter egg tradition has developed. Program authors of everything from games to business software (having taken pride in their creations and wanting to demonstrate a good sense of humor) embedded hidden keystroke combinations or mouse click sequences that unveiled treasures from hidden games to videos. As software companies have become more sensitive to security issues, though, Easter eggs have disappeared....More