Feb
23

Panasonic aims for full 3D home cinema system

Website: Rapid TV News Panasonic says it will be the first manufacturer to have a full 3D home entertainment system in the public’s hands. There have been plenty of exhibition showcases,.. more
Feb
23

Kabel Deutschland announces IPO

Website: Rapid TV News Germany’s largest cable operator Kabel Deutschland (KDG) has decided to go ahead with an IPO. The company to be listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange will be.. more
Feb
23

Spain regulates HDTV on DTT

Website: Rapid TV News Spain’s government is regulating the inclusion of high definition television on the country’s DTT platform and is working on an official decree that will set the technical.. more
Feb
23

Pace wins M7 DTH contract

Website: Rapid TV News Set-top box specialist Pace has won the M7 DTH contract for its ‘next-generation’ HDTV boxes. M7 Group, headquartered in Luxembourg, provides DTH satellite TV services to residential and business customers in the Benelux countries using its brand names CanalDigitaal, TV Vlaanderen.. more
Feb
23

EuroNews looks to DTT in Spain

Website: Rapid TV News Pan-European 24 hour news channel EuroNews is negotiating with Spain’s government a solution to its leaving national public broadcaster RTVE as a partner. The channel could end up as part of Spain’s digital-terrestrial platform. RTVE gave up EuroNews shares in 2007.. more
Feb
23

Ocean Blue Software claims single solution for digital TV

Website: Rapid TV News Bristol-based software developer Ocean Blue Software says it is possible that a new single-solution software stack could emerge that includes reception of HbbTV, Canvas, MHEG-5, HTML5 and Adobe Flash lite. The concept is explained in a new free White Paper from.. more
Feb
23

Ofcom tells CNN to drop Nigerian bank sponsor

Website: Rapid TV News CNN International transmits an weekly show ‘Inside Africa’. The show has been sponsored by Nigeria’s Zenith Bank (based in Lagos). That sponsorship must cease, says UK regulator Ofcom. The problem is that Current Affairs and News programming must not be sponsored... more
Feb
23

Eutelsat to launch with W3B with Arianespace

Website: Rapid TV News It seems like only yesterday that Eutelsat was being criticised by the French authorities for choosing to launch its W3B satellite upon a Chinese rocket, bypassing Arianespace. W3B was due to be lifted into orbit by a Chinese Long March rocket... more
Feb
23

Satellite mobile TV worth $11 billion

Website: Rapid TV News Satellite-delivered mobile TV has had a somewhat lacklustre performance to date. But a new study says that the satellite mobile TV market will soon be worth an impressive $11bn a year. Despite the limited audience and coverage of services, the market.. more
Feb
23

Now almost 200 million registered domains

Verisign’s latest quarterly report on the domain name industry has just been released, revealing that there are now 192 million registered domain names. The majority of those domains are .com, unsurprisingly, followed by .cn (China), .de (Germany), .net and .uk (yes, we’re at the top.. more