Philip Hunter

Dutch video watermarking specialist Civolution is benefiting from a Hollywood mandate.

The Satellite Interference Reduction Group (sIRG) and the Global VSAT Forum (GVF) confirm they are working in partnership to combat satellite interference.

Belgian satellite comms company Newtec is encouraging operators to speed up their migration to IP at Broadcast Asia 2011.

The European Broadcast Union (EBU) held a quality control workshop in June, concluding that there is a long way to go to develop the automated monitoring toolsets needed for multiscreen services.

The Broadcasting Audience Research Board (BARB), which measures TV consumption in the UK, is introducing a viewing meter for Web-based services.

A new Rethink report predicts that rest of Europe will follow France into a more competitive pay-TV market.

The decision by BBC journalist Andrew Marr to lift an injunction against reporting of his extramarital affair has highlighted concerns across Europe that privacy has prevailed over media freedom.

The newly restructured Satellite IRG will be working with key satellite operators and equipment manufacturers to tackle the growing problem of interference.

Despite the failure of DVB-H to gain traction, many European operators are still betting on it playing a major role in future services, but with a different standard.

The Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) is depending on the European move toward hybrid home networks favoring coax for the backbone.

KPN has reached an agreement to acquire local cable operator Caiway.

The Israeli over-the-top platform vendor argued at the ANGA Cable show in Germany that cable operators need to make their services available outside their footprint to boost customer loyalty.

The forensic watermarking system enables the Polish national film archive to trace content.

Several European countries are deploying DTT single-frequency networks despite issues such as the need for cross-border coordination.

The EBU met recently in Tromsø, Norway, recently to discuss future production technologies, including HD.

Four G.hn chipset makers came together in Geneva, Switzerland, for the world's first interoperability demonstration.

The European Broadcast Union is calling on its members to get their heads out of the sand and start working towards common standards for emerging hybrid services.

Questions are being raised again by some home networking system vendors over power line's ability to scale up to HD

BSkyB could end up totally independent from News Corporation, which currently holds 39 percent of its shares.

Isareli company Novelsat is lobbying the DVB to create DVB-S3 by incorporating its satellite transmission technology.

Leading broadcasting consultant urges regulators to revise DTT spectrum planning to provide better in-home coverage in urban areas.

France, like Germany and most other European countries except the UK, is basing its connected TV platform strategy on the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) standard.

Virgin Media says there is backlog of demand for new service based on the TiVo DVR, which combines linear TV, VOD, catch-up services and Web applications such as You Tube.

Satellite operators will exploit their blanket coverage to make up for lost revenue to IPTV and fiber networks in densely populated areas of North America, the Far East and Western Europe.