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Comcast out to cut delivery costs for pay-TV operators

Pay-TV operators looking for a cost-efficient way to transition from satellite distribution to IP video can check out Managed Terrestrial Distribution Service, launched by Comcast Technology Solutions.

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Broadcasting live UEFA matches in HD across 17,000 islands in Indonesia

The two European football channels will be bundled together with exclusive content from Surya Citra Media (SCM) that has secured the exclusive distribution rights for the 2019/20 football seasons of UCL and UEL.

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Japanese TV networks embracing synchronised streaming

This initial trial-over-the-air will cover Tokyo and six other locations in the Kanto region of Japan.

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Ha Tinh TV scales up with Sony’s HDCU-3100 CCU

After years of providing only radio coverage, the network aired its first TV programme in 1991.

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Playbox enhances Life TV Asia’s channel branding & social media capabilities

To provide full transmission via terrestrial digital, direct-to-home satellite and cable, Life TV Asia invested in two PlayBox Neo 1U Dual Xeon Channel-in-a-Box servers.

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Astro taps ABR technology to enhance OTT service

Astro will harness ABR technology — a satellite solution — to distribute 20 MPEG-DASH live channels across Android TVs, iOS, Android tablets and smartphones.

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India and Bangladesh strengthen working relationships in broadcast and radio

Both networks also discussed the making of a feature film on the life and works of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, a co-production of which was announced by the Prime Ministers of the two countries earlier.

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TechStorm to storm Asia?

Debbie Lee, founder of TechStorm, said: “We are experts in creating and acquiring content, and understanding the innate taste and preferences of the Asian audience.

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Australia conducting another DVB-T2 trial

Last November, Australian broadcast entities — TX Australia, Broadcast Australia, and Free TV — commenced a DVB-T2 trial in Gold Coast.

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Singapore first in SE Asia to go fully digital

A new chapter in Singapore’s broadcast TV history started on January 1 as the republic successfully shut down all its analogue TV transmissions.

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Digicel adds new DTV services with MediaKind

The installation of MediaKind’s technology will empower Digicel to deliver 48 more channels, bringing the company’s total broadcast channels to 92 In an attempt to deliver immersive content experience and a wider range of content to viewers in Papua New Guinea (PNG), Digicel, a telco and digital TV service provider, is enhancing its current systems with compression headend technology and expanded transmitter infrastructure from MediaKind, the new identity for Ericsson Media Solutions.

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Spectrum – who needs it more?

UK regulatory authority Ofcom has begun an auction for spectrum that will pave the way for 5G services to be launched in the UK.

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Time to switch off analogue TV

APB chats with Dr Peter Siebert, executive director of the DVB Project, on the merits of DTT, and how a new digital terrestial network architecture can potentially hasten the demise of analogue TV.

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DSO slows down in ASEAN

Malaysia is the latest ASEAN country to announce a delay in switching off analogue TV transmissions Originally scheduled to be completed by 30 June 2018, the digital switchover (DSO) in Malaysia has been delayed.

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Channel NewsAsia goes full HD with AsiaSat

The news channel has been delivered via the AsiaSat 7 satellite since 2003 Established by Singapore terrestrial broadcaster Mediacorp in 1999, Channel NewsAsia first aired across Asia in SD on AsiaSat in 2003, and by this end-March, will be delivered in full HD on the AsiaSat 7 satellite, at the 105.