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Tolka’s ‘TCAS for Widevine’ saves time and money

TCAS for Widevine is the latest addition to Tolka’s portfolio of media-related telecommunication products and services.

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DARE to Change: StarHub redefines meaning of ‘Entertainment’ offering an infinity of hybrid D2C services

By Shaun Lim For many viewers in Singapore, StarHub has been synonymous with pay-TV in the country, particularly in the early 2000s, when the telco acquired Singapore Cable Vision (SCV) in 2001 and became the sole pay-TV operator in the country for six years.

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NBCUniversal brings DreamWorks to Now TV customers in HK

NBCUniversal International Networks (NBCUIN) has launched DreamWorks, a 24-hour HD channel on Now TV, a pay-TV service in Hong Kong and the media entertainment arm of HKT.

OTT

Netflix reaches 300 million pay-TV households via partnerships

Three-quarters of pay-TV subscribers in Western Europe had contracts with Netflix partner operators as at end-2018.

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Enhanced Android TV solution for pay-TV operators

Nagra and Kaon, a provider in broadband customer premise equipment, are joining forces in a new streaming solution designed to provide just that for pay-TV operators.

TV Everywhere

INNOPIA hails Netflix’s Hailstorm Hybrid programme

To accelerate the time-to-market of Netflix services for pay-TV operators, the Hailstorm Hybrid programme was launched by Netflix’s Android TV to provide operators in pay-TV market with a verified scalable solution.

OTT

Pay-TV operators embracing OTT to combat cord-cutting

This is synonymous to the findings by GlobalData that an increasing number of consumers in Asia prefer on-the-go video options.

OTT

Cord-cutting becoming pronounced in UK

According to Strategy Analytics’ TV & Media Strategies service, Denmark, Switzerland and Germany were also hit, but the decline in pay-TV was less significant.

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What do cord-nevers want?

Before the mobile phone became a norm, families would gather in the living room to watch, laugh and cry at TV programmes together.

Subscriber data lays the roadmap for positive customer experience

In a research commissioned by Paywizard, European media operators indicate customer data analytics as its critical strategic aim Despite ranking customer experience as a top strategic priority, European media operators admitted that they have yet to make effective use of subscriber data and analytics to engage consumers, according to a new research report, Customer analytics in the post-OTT age: Insights from European service providers.

APB+

Tangerine Global deploys end-to-end cloud-based MediaKind solution

This, said the companies, will enhance the OTT TV experience for viewers Entertainment services provider Tangerine Global has enhanced its CITRUS managed solution with new cloud-based capabilities.

Content Security

Friend MTS launches ASiD OTT

The watermarking solution provides enhanced protection against video-domain attacks and OTT player interference Friend MTS has launched ASiD OTT, which the company said combines third-generation, ultra-robust subscriber-level watermarking with global content monitoring.

NAGRA brings Smartly Digital approach to IBC2018

The company is bringing innovations that address the entire content value chain Pay-TV service providers are at a crossroads between over-the-top (OTT) add-on services and true digital transformation, where the lines between pay-TV and OTT are blurring and making way for the post-OTT era, according to Ivan Verbesselt, senior vice-president, group marketing, NAGRA.

Keeping audiences engaged through the adoption of cloud

Cloud has been dubbed as one of the technologies that has the capability to shape the future of the broadcast and media industry.

News & Events

All things connected via telcos

Telcos have indirectly cultivated the connected population with its business nature of offering Internet and cable TV all under one roof BY JOSEPHINE TAN How many aspects of lives can a typical telecommunications company possibly touch?