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The 21st annual, and largest yet, Broadcast India 2011 show opened its gates to the future of technology on October 20-22, 2011, at the Bombay Exhibition Centre in Mumbai, India. Many of the world’s leading enterprises in the fields of film and television, pro-audio and radio, mobile TV & IPTV as well as 3D & digital cinema, showcased and demoed groundbreaking new products to an enthralled public of more than 20,000 visitors, delegates and invitees. Broadcast India 2011 provided the platform for more than 589 companies from 33 countries to do what they do best, give you the consumer, a slice of the future. On its conclusion after three days, both the exhibition and conference welcomed an unprecedented number of visitors from various fields of the entertainment industry, and recorded a 33 percent overall growth in exhibition space, thereby making it the most well-attended and successful Broadcast India Show till date. As a global marketplace for the entertainment trade industry, Broadcast India’s foot is on the floor pedal to surge forwards into the future as a force to be reckoned with.
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MobiTV, Inc. is introducing a TV Everywhere solution for cable, satellite and IPTV service providers, leveraging the company’s expertise in providing video delivery solutions for mobile devices, personal computers and other Internet-enabled consumer electronics. Based on MobiTV’s existing cloud-based video distribution platform, TV service providers can now offer their subscribers live and on-demand programming for viewing inside and outside the home on personal computers, tablets and a broad range of mobile devices. The MobiTV TV Everywhere solution is easily adaptable for seamless integration with existing TV infrastructure and back-end systems. Customers looking to extend their content to other platforms may leverage MobiTV’s existing ingestion and encoding efforts. As an end-to-end managed service that leverages MobiTV’s cloud-based video distribution platform, the TV Everywhere solution can help TV service providers reduce time to market and costs associated with deployment and operations. Additionally, the service will be supported 24×7 by the experienced team in the MobiTV network operations center. The MobiTV TV Everywhere solution, designed for TV service providers, is immediately deployable across a broad range of devices both inside and outside the home. The easily implemented solution includes:
- Support for over 375 different types of mobile devices on all major operating systems and across wireless and broadband networks
- Ingestion and encoding of live and DRM-protected VOD content
- Advanced policy management to tailor delivery and access to varying content rights
- Unified channel guide with remote DVR control
- A customizable branded multi-platform user experience
- Single sign-on authentication support to manage delivery of multiple tiered video packages and products
- MUBI, the fastest growing online cinema and community, is using Nativ’s recently released Mio On Demand solution to bring the film festival experience firmly into the living room this month with the expansion of its multiscreen VOD offering to include Sony Bravia Connected TVs. MUBI has migrated its media management and processing operations to MioEverwhere for automated delivery to all of its platforms and this latest announcement will enable film fans to watch movies from its extensive portfolio of classic, independent and foreign films through their Connected TVs. With half a billion Connected TVs expected to enter the global marketplace in the next four years, content owners and rights holders (both big and small) need to think about expanding their offerings to include the connected home. Mio On Demand enables them to do that quickly and cost-effectively with zero capex. The transaction-based MioEverywhere platform, which is held in a secure “private cloud”, enables users to scale operations up or down as usage costs vary according to the volume of ingested, stored, repurposed and delivered content. MUBI, which already offers movies on a pay per view and subscription basis via its website and Sony PlayStation 3 as well as a social network, has tapped Nativ’s Mio On Demand platform to create workflows that automatically manage, package and deliver content to its platforms. It also enables MUBI to create and manage metadata and workflows to support file discovery, transcoding, subtitle overlay, packaging and delivery. The system seamlessly integrates with MUBI’s contributors as well as distributors and partners, using Mio Desktop Client, an application for remotely validating and ingesting large media files to the Mio On Demand platform. Once ingested, all validated content will automatically go through MUBI’s customised workflows with source files being securely stored in the Mio On Demand platform. Source files are then available to MUBI and its partners whenever needed.
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RRsat America – Global Communications Inc., a provider of comprehensive content management and global distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting industries, announced that it is offering services on its second DVB-S2 MCPC platform on MEASAT-3a. The SD/HD video channels on the MEASAT-3/3a satellites currently reach more than 50 million pay-TV households in the Middle East, North Asia, South Asia, South East Asia, Australia/Oceana and parts of Africa. RRsat has provided an end-to-end managed fiber and satellite uplink and teleport service, including optional playout, via MEASAT-3a since October 2010. The first RRsat DVB-S2 platform is booked almost entirely with HD/3D channels including Sky News HD, All Sports Network (ASN), GinxTV, iConcerts, BabyTV Asia, Bigfoot TV, Unitel Classica Asia and Nat Geo Music.
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Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc) has launched High TV 3D, a 24/7 channel for the Nordic region, on TSBc’s THOR 6 satellite, located at 1 degree West, one of Europe’s fastest-growing orbital hotspots. High TV 3D will initially reach audiences in Norway only and will distributed to viewers via Canal Digital’s DTH satellite-TV service as part of the standard family package. High TV 3D, one of the first 3DTV entertainment channels to broadcast worldwide, is the first such channel to be launched in the Nordic region. Its launch follows successful trials and one-off broadcasts (both free-to-air and subscriber-based) of live sports events. High TV 3D is available from October 27 as part of the channel bouquet offered by Canal Digital, the leading DTH operator in the Nordic region.
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