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ARTE: Greatest Programming Success Since Its Inception
Cultural broadcaster launches with a new programming schedule from January 1, 2008
D-Link Introduces WLAN Router with IPTV Support
Quality of Service ensures uninterrupted video streams
Adobe Announces Flash Media Server 3
Improved protection for video streaming in HD format / New pricing model
D-Link Introduces WLAN Router with IPTV Support.
Quality of Service ensures uninterrupted video streams.
Full Christmas Programme with ClipInc.
Nine new stations play Christmas music around the clock.
Dailymotion Introduces Version for the iPhone
iPhone version of the video portal with Quicktime support for Safari browser.
Dynavisions Schweiz AG presents the brand new SOLO HD 200
Dynavisions Schweiz AG presents the new SOLO HD 200 to the public. For the first time, it will be possible to display all high-resolution films and videos from the Internet in HD quality without being restricted to the services of one provider. SOLO HD 200 will be available from specialist retailers from February 2008.
Exozet Handles Lettra: First Web, Then IPTV
Special-interest pay-TV channel has web presence built / IPTV expansion planned
TechSmith introduces Camtasia Studio 5
TechSmith, a leading maker of screen-capture and screen-recording software, announces the availability of the German version of Camtasia Studio 5.
Grid-TV selects the MimundoTV player for its hybrid-TV solution in the IPTV market
Grid-TV and Mimundo Concept are partnering to develop an innovative hybrid-TV solution for the consumer market.
Cisco Service Provider Day 2007: IPTV in focus
The program of this year's Cisco industry event provides insight into both new business opportunities as well as technological challenges surrounding IP-based TV and video offerings.
Metropolitan Opera Streams Live in HD
Six Metropolitan Opera productions will be transmitted live in HD with surround sound and German subtitles to cinemas in Germany and Austria.
The Rhine-Main area on demand: rheinmaintv introduces new video portal
With the website rheinmaintv-video.de, the regional television station based in Bad Homburg now offers the possibility of watching the majority of programs on demand on the Internet. In addition to the regional news program "rheinmain aktuell", magazines such as „rheinmain szene“ or „Around the Airport“, for example, are also available to viewers at any time after their television broadcast.
Cinema feeling anytime and anywhere
Strong Motorola partners make the Moto Z8 an entertainment giant.
ACCESS and EXPWAY Integrate DVB-H Platform
NetFront Browser DTV Profile integrates FastESG for DVB-H mobile TV across broadcast, unicast and local services.
Hobnox Launches Interactive Hendrix Show
Hobnox's Hypershow lets viewers leave the main Hendrix documentary to explore linked audio, video, photographs and text.
Personality counts in politics: Videonize enters politics
Mayoral candidate and candidates of Erding’s independent voters use video e-mail in the election campaign.
Pinnacle Introduces ShowCenter 250HD
ShowCenter 250HD streams video, photos and audio from PCs, NAS devices or USB storage over Ethernet or Wi-Fi, with HD output up to 1080i.
Winners of the most important competition for Digital Content Creation (DCC) honored at awards ceremony
International entries from 35 different countries / Live broadcast of the awards ceremony via Windows Media Streaming / Honorary award for Bully Herbig / Evening event with networking party as part of the digital creation days in Karlsruhe
Only a few hours until the animago presentation
It’ll start soon: Get popcorn and cola and fire up the computer. Because: Everyone stuck at home can follow the animago AWARD presentation via live streaming on the Internet.
Live streaming of the animago AWARDS
For everyone stuck at home: The animago AWARD will be presented on November 8 in Karlsruhe at the digital creation days. But even those who will not make it to the DCC industry’s most important award can still follow the presentation live on their own computer.
Akamai: Future of HD transmission
A look into the future of HD transmission on the Internet is now offered by Akamai, a leading specialist in the delivery and acceleration of online content and –business processes.
First Windows Home Server devices available in the USA
Numerous solutions will go on sale in Germany for the Christmas business
Livestreaming of the animago AWARD
For everyone staying at home: The animago AWARD will be presented at the digital creation days in Karlsruhe on November 8. But even if one will not make it to the most important award in the DCC industry, one can nevertheless follow the presentation live on one’s own computer.
Studio Hamburg and Exozet Partner on IPTV
The companies combine video production, asset management, portal development and TVNEXT technology for IPTV and video-on-demand projects.
NBC and News Corp. forge ahead with Internet video
Media giants News Corp. and NBC Universal launched their joint Internet video service Hulu.com on Monday, through which TV series and feature films are shown free of charge. There will be advertising for this, the companies announced.
osTube 2.0 Released — Free Video Community Framework
The first Media Content Management System (MCMS) with significantly expanded functionality.
VdiF as mouthpiece of IPTV and digital TV broadcasters
With the Association for Digital Broadcasting and Internet-Based Television - VdiF - TV and IPTV operators in Germany have had their own interest representation since today.
n-tv plus Adds Archive and Full-Screen Mode
The interactive television service adds an archive, full-screen playback, website links and a permanent advertising module.
Azlan uses Videonize to improve communication with specialist retailers
Tech Data’s business division uses audiovisual e-mails to present complex subjects more simply and effectively.
IPTV Work in Progress: BBC Brings Adobe on Board
A platform-independent Flash player is intended to calm tempers.
The Royal Navy fleet upgrades its broadcast systems
The Royal Navy is equipping its fleet with a new Livewire digital broadcast system. The material is used both for internal purposes - for example training -, as well as for interaction with the news channels.
The MP3 search engine eSpew.com cooperates with HooQs(TM) and launches a service for free music downloads to mobile phones
eSpew, the world’s largest online search engine for free downloads of MP3 music, is growing, with over 19 million MP3 songs and more than 1.3 million visitors per month.
Moviepilot finds films to the user’s taste
The new movie recommendation community moviepilot wants to become the first personalized, comprehensive Electronic Programm Guide (EPG) for cinema, DVD, TV, video-on-demand and IPTV. A first step has been taken with the cooperation with Internet giant T-Online.
ITG discussion on the subject of podcasts
The event on October 30, 2007, at the IRT, Munich (10:00 to 17:00) deals with the subject “Streaming Media, the Internet equivalent of radio and television”.
BBC Brings iPlayer Streaming to Flash
BBC and Adobe plan Flash-based iPlayer streaming for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows, restricted to viewers in the United Kingdom.
New service offerings for video e-mail solution
MailPerfect Europe AG, provider of Videonize, the next-generation e-mail system for sending video messages simply and directly, presents its customers and interested parties with a new pricing structure: With Videonize 1 YEAR FLAT, Videonize Mails with a recording length of up to 10 minutes each can be created and sent. Until December 31, 2007, the company charges an annual flat rate of 29.95 euros. Anyone who recommends Videonize and gains new customers in this way is rewarded with five euros for each new 1 YEAR FLAT customer.
Is the market ready for “Next Generation TV”?
Deloitte study shows potential of IPTV / Interactive television not yet accepted by consumers / Content decides
Apple Details Mac OS X Leopard Server
Leopard Server adds automated podcast production, CalDAV scheduling and 64-bit services while retaining native 32-bit compatibility.
Web TV for consumer electronics launches
Digital Life TV, Internet television for the consumer-electronics industry, is online. In short TV reports and spots, the latest trends, innovations and developments in the industry are communicated internationally. Modern broadcasting technology and community mentality support international trade, connect decision-makers and at the same time offer the consumer a contemporary information tool.
Artec Technologies examines infringement of its IPTV patent by Arcor
Artec Technologies is examining legal action against Arcor regarding its patent for time-shifted television. Patent protects the development of an IPTV service with “Time-Shift” function
MFD provides information about mobile TV at the Munich Media Days
Visitors receive detailed information about mobile TV at the MFD stand and can try out mobile television live
Concerns about ARD’s planned online «media library»
The «media library» planned by ARD is meeting with concerns at the Rhineland-Palatinate State Chancellery, which has the leading role in media policy. It must be examined whether the project for free downloading of television and radio programmes from the Internet is covered «in peripheral areas» by the state treaty.
Pinnacle Releases Three USB DVB-T Tuners
Pinnacle's three PCTV DVB-T USB tuners add live viewing, recording and timeshifting, with streaming and editing in the Ultimate model.
Study Finds Limited User-Generated Content
A German media study finds that 7.2 percent of internet users aged 14 to 64 regularly create blogs, comments, images, videos or reviews.
Vista Media Center Adds Internet TV Beta
Microsoft adds a US Internet TV beta to Windows Vista Media Center, combining MSN streams, YuMe advertising and progressive playback.
German IPTV Forecast Reaches 2.5 Million
Goldmedia projects 2.5 million German IPTV households and €420 million in direct revenue by 2012, from about 100,000 users in 2007.
Teracue: New DEC-200 Multiformat Hardware Decoder
New MultiCoder software engine from Teracue AG for creating, converting and implementing IPTV streams available now. MultiCoder enables encoding, transcoding and transrating of IPTV streams in real time.
TV-Loonland Takes Penelope Distribution Rights
TV-Loonland gains television, home-video, VOD, IPTV and mobile rights to the preschool 3D series Penelope across multiple regions.
TriCaster STUDIO by NewTek Available
DIGITAL PRODUCTION met Franck Henri Lafage and Audrey-Jane Belin of NewTek at IBC 2007 to have TriCaster Studio presented to it.
Qualcomm and conVISUAL Present Interactive Mobile Broadcast Live at IBC 2007
Qualcomm Incorporated and conVISUAL AG announced during IBC 2007 that they would collaborate in the field of Interactive Mobile Broadcast in the future.
NDS Demonstrates New Technology Platforms at IBC 2007
NDS’s presence at this year’s IBC in Amsterdam is entirely focused on digital media convergence: NDS responds to trends in digital media use with a portfolio of new technologies based on convergent and integrated solutions.
Barix AG Presents New Broadcasting Technology
Swiss Barix AG presented the new Exstreamer 1000 for audio distribution and the new Annuncicom 1000, a voice-over-IP device for STL transmission/monitoring of voice programmes, in Amsterdam.
New Version of Composition Builder Presented
BUG.tv and European distributor ToolsAtWork are presenting the current version of Composition Builder at IBC 2007.
IBC 2007: Philips Shows Video-on-Demand Feature Films in 3D
The Dutch shows three-dimensional video-on-demand feature films as part of the Amsterdam broadcasting trade fair – without viewers having to use special glasses.
eco: New WLAN iPods Make Mobile Internet a Mass Market
Internet industry association sees WLAN capability as the beginning of the end of the mobile-network corporations’ oligopoly over mobile Internet
StarDSL GmbH Now Offers True Satellite Flat Rate for the German Market
StarDSL GmbH is now offering interactive broadband satellite access via the ASTRA2Connect broadband service for the German market through its stardsl.de Internet platform.
Envivio: VC-1 Encoder for Convergende Generation Headend
The IP video specialist has licensed Microsoft’s VC-1 Encoder for its headend solution
Sony Takes on iTunes Head-On
Consumer-Electronics Group Sony Apparently Intends to Enter into Direct Competition with iTunes.
ZDF Launches On-Demand Television at IFA
ZDF launched its new media library at IFA in Berlin with presenters and actors from across the broadcaster's programming.
MFD Launches Mobile Text with Fraunhofer IIS
Germany's first mobile-TV provider is using Journaline, the text-news service developed by Fraunhofer IIS.
WDR Builds Live Streams in a One-Metre Studio
G&L is producing WDR event streams with live switching, recording, graphics, and broadcast effects from a compact mobile system.
Telekom Expands Internet Television Service
Deutsche Telekom plans to extend internet television beyond its VDSL footprint using an upgraded DSL network and lower-priced packages.
Football Could Drive Mobile TV Adoption
German mobile operators plan at least 16 DVB-H channels, with football coverage expected to support wider mobile-TV adoption.
Harmonic at IBC/Stand 1.361
At this year’s IBC, Harmonic Inc. is presenting its comprehensive range of solutions for broadcast and on-demand video services for various platforms, including Internet and mobile TV, which has been further expanded through the recent acquisition of the company Rhozet.
Barix Adds Exstreamer and Annuncicom 1000
Barix will show the Exstreamer 1000 IP-audio distribution unit and Annuncicom 1000 Voice-over-IP system at IBC.
Kulabyte Adds H.264 to Express Encoders
Kulabyte's Express encoder range adds Flash Player 9-compatible H.264 alongside VP6 and Windows Media 9/VC-1.
Game-TV Streams Daily from Games Convention
Game-TV.com will stream daily news, interviews, esports, and online-role-playing coverage from Games Convention.
DVC expands its product range
In addition to the distribution agreement with Telairity for H.264/AVC Encoding in HD & SD, DVC now also has the VBrick IPTV, Encoding and Streaming solutions in its product portfolio.
New film server online starting today
A new Internet television programme launches today with Trailerkanal. On Trailerkanal, viewers are presented with all current cinema trailers from the current month and the following month. Unlike conventional television, the film information can be clicked directly to obtain further information about the film. The operator of the “Trailer-Kanal.de” portal is the media agency sb-SILENCIO.Sven Banis.
T-Systems Builds DVB-H Network in Dubai
A T-Systems subsidiary builds a DVB-H mobile-TV network in Dubai for a twelve-channel trial.
Rhein-Main worldwide: rheinmaintv now broadcasts its programme live on the Internet
In the Rhine-Main area, the regional television channel from Bad Homburg has already been receivable for years via cable or DVB-T, and nationwide and throughout Europe via the Astra satellite. Now the channel is activating a live stream on the rheinmaintv.de website.
Telestream Releases FlipFactory 6.0
FlipFactory 6.0 adds tape ingest, HD commercial processing and syndication workflows.
BBC’s IPTV offering triggers wave of protest
At the weekend, the BBC launched its new IPTV service for the first time. There were protests among Mac user.
Camtasia Studio 4.0.1 from TechSmith is “Works with Windows Vista” certified
TechSmith, a leading manufacturer of screen-capture and screen-recording software, announces that the latest update of Camtasia Studio has been certified as “Works with Windows Vista”.
Windows Home Server is finished
Microsoft has completed the Windows Home Server software and released it for production. Hardware partners will shortly receive the final English, German, French and Spanish versions and can use them to bring Windows Home Server devices to market.
ARD reaffirms its position on doping in cycling
In a conference call today, Friday, the directors of ARD once again reaffirmed their position on withdrawing from live reporting of the Tour de France 2007.
500,000 watch “Tour de France” on Sat.1
Since Thursday, private channel Sat.1 has taken over the broadcasting rights to the 94th "Tour de France". With an average of 500,000 viewers aged three and over, the Berliners started the second half of the cycling tour. According to media control, the market share of the eleventh stage was 4.7 percent.
Nokia Siemens Networks outlines “TV 2.0” future
Innovation manager Lydia Aldejohann holds out the prospect of personalization of the offering, new advertising mechanisms, new forms of use
Mobile television must also be committed to diversity!
ARD Chairman Fritz Raff sees himself in agreement with the responsible EU Commissioner Viviane Reding in the effort to advance mobile television as a platform.
After relaunch, RTL.de increases page impressions by 18 percent
The relaunch of the RTL.de website is apparently being well received by Internet users. This is demonstrated by the official access figures from IVW. According to them, RTL.de achieved a monthly average of 417 million page impressions (PIs) in the first half of 2007, an increase of 18 percent compared with the same period in the previous year.
25 years of German cable television
Today, German cable television celebrates its 25th anniversary. What was launched on July 16, 1982, through the signing of a contract as the ambitious cable pilot project "Anstalt für Kabelkommunikation" in Ludwigshafen developed over the years into the most successful television infrastructure in Germany.
SpeedEdit 1.2 from NewTek Available
The latest update of SpeedEdit includes VST, DVC PRO HD, MXF and VC1 support
n-tv.de on Course for Success
n-tv.de is growing continuously. The news channel n-tv's information portal recorded 110,473,115 Page Impressions (PIs) and 13,446,985 visits last month. In terms of PIs, this is the third-best month since n-tv.de launched eight years ago.
Premiere Internet TV Expands Offering with Current Series and Film
Premiere is expanding its Internet TV offering and now also offers current series and feature films on demand. Internet users can thus view Premiere program highlights at http://vod.premiere.de without a subscription and retrieve them individually for a fee.
n-tv.de in a New Design
The online information portal of the news channel n-tv, n-tv.de, has appeared in a new design since yesterday and is even more user-friendly. The site, which recorded proud growth of 32 percent in Page Impressions (PIs) in the first half of 2007 compared with the first half of 2006, now offers users an even clearer view of its comprehensive, multimedia range of information.
MFD to Compare DVB-H and DMB at IFA
MFD will let IFA visitors compare mobile television delivered through DVB-H and DMB.
Live Earth Hamburg Produced in HDTV
ProSiebenSat.1 Produktion will supply the Hamburg Live Earth concert as a worldwide high-definition feed.
Bitfilm Launches Its Own Channel on sevenload
Bitfilm TV reports from the world of digital film / Specials and portraits on CGI productions and makers
Information Event on the Status Quo and Prospects of Media-Based Interaction Design
Industry experts describe challenges for design, promotion and marketing
1st German IPTV Award: Registration Period Begins
Promoting IPTV technology in Germany as a goal
NAB: New Encoder from Digital Rapids
Digital Rapids Studio AVC Encoder creates MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 streams / Updates for Transcode Manager software
NAB: Adobe – Creative Suite 3, Public Betas, Its Own Player
Creative Suite before a large audience for the first time / Public betas of Premiere Pro, After Effects and Soundbooth / Adobe Media Player presented / Avid Unity servers support Adobe formats
NAB: Sorenson Makes Web Video Easy
Compression technology can now also be integrated into web applications / Backend for Web 2.0 sites / New HD encoding cards
NAB: Anystream Speeds Up Agility
Further development of the Agility platform with faster HD transcoding and Live Flash Support / Advertising management solution for Velocity
NAB: Newtek Presents New Tricaster Studio and Lightwave Update
New version offers virtual sets for up to six cameras / Update for Lightwave 3D
Gear Media Tech (GMT)
Three-day seminar on audio and video content for the Internet and mobile applications, organised by Pixel Corps, TWiT.tv and Podango Production.
Creative TV Channel Idee07 Launches on the Web
New IPTV offering is intended to serve creative people as a platform for ideas in the field of communication