Envivio Inc. has today declared that it has deployed its 4Caster C4 three screened encoder with an assortment of mobile network sources and content aggregators world wide.
The encoder, which was recently awarded the 2008 TelcoTV Vision Award, is used in delivering 32 diverse mobile TV profiles over four video channels, providing a compression platform [...]

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4Caster C4 encoder shipping begins by Envivio

The Olympics are a curse in disguise. For a country gripped in recession the £10bn bill now seem steep (especially for a small country of 60m people).

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Bronze Medal

A new report released today, “Converging Media: The Olswang Convergence Consumer Survey 2008″, suggests that Brits are rapidly adopting converged services such as the BBC iPlayer, Sky+ and on demand TV services.
According to the report, this marks a fundamental change in people’s relationship with television and movies, with increasing demand for free content that [...]

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Brits embracing media convergence

DIRECTV
has
selected the latest TANDBERG MPEG-4
AVC HD encoding solutions for its local HD channel expansion. The move builds on a
pioneering HDTV relationship between DIRECTV and TANDBERG Television and further extends
both companies’ HDTV market lead. In early 2005 DIRECTV chose TANDBERG Television’s
first-to-market MPEG-4 AVC HD platform, and became the first North American satellite
DTH provider to launch HD services.

The solution chosen by DIRECTV includes the newly released EN8095 encoders, part of
the EN8090 MPEG-4 AVC SD/HD encoding family. New features within the EN8095 include
IP statistical multiplexing, 8VSB input and control of up to three different outputs
(MPEG-4 AVC HD/SD and MPEG-2 SD). The encoders provide more bandwidth efficiency,
the ability to capture and rebroadcast terrestrial HD channels and allow DIRECTV the
ability to leverage existing operational efficiencies as well as support future requirements.

EN8090 encoders enable operators to deliver HD and SD multi-channel and single channel
MPEG-4 AVC services across cable, satellite, telco and terrestrial networks. The TANDBERG
encoders use a comprehensive tool-set of advanced compression video processing features,
combined with new pre-processing techniques. The EN8090 encoding family pushes encoding
efficiency to the highest levels of excellence, providing the ultimate in best quality
pictures at the lowest bit rates. Advanced audio coding options provide equally impressive
low bit rate audio performance.

DIRECTV utilizes several other systems by TANDBERG Television including the WatchPoint
Workflow System and Xport Producer content production solution.

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DIRECTV and TANDBERG Television Continue HDTV Relationship

Livestation is increasing its road towards live TV via the internet with a new plan to drive viewers towards the websites of its partners such as Al Jazeera English, BBC Arabic, BBC World News and BBC World Service radio, Bloomberg Television, C-SPAN.
The new intuitive will highlight the TV stations’ interactive features. Just recently Al Jazeera [...]

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Livestation Want to Bring in More Interactive TV