Philip Hunter

Shortage of studio space combined with plenty of cheap fiber will encourage broadcasters to edit remotely via bandwidth networks at the London Olympics next year.

The UK’s Virgin Media plans eventually to migrate all of its pay-TV programming to TiVo and deliver it “through the middle” via reserved spectrum within its broadband Internet service.

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

The industry is accepting that 3-D will not take off just yet.

Viacom and Telefónica are among new European customers for Intelsat’s video neighborhood.

The European Broadcast Union has outlined out 19 principles that it believes will drive down costs and boost quality of experience for consumers of Internet-connected and hybrid TVs.

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

France Telecom subsidiary GlobeCast is extending fiber to the premises of major operators for global content distribution.

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.

Alcatel-Lucent warns that restrictive regulations are causing Europe to fall behind North America and Asia-Pacific the emerging multiscreen era.

The HomePlug Powerline Alliance highlights recent growth in Europe.

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

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.

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.

NDS, the Israeli content security company being acquired by Cisco for $5 billion, has retaliated against smart card hacking claims in a BBC program while facing similar allegations in Australia.

Broadcasters need secure long lasting funding to meet their public service commitments, the European Broadcast Union (EBU) argues.

Although streaming has overtaken it, rental of DVDs in the UK is still increasing.

The Eurovision Song Contest staged every year by the European Broadcast Union (EBU) has run into controversy over the choice of Azerbaijan as host country because of its human rights record.

China is singled out as a market with greater headroom, more demand and overall more potential.

This UK’s IP&TV World Forum that took place last week highlighted the mixed global fortunes of IPTV as it disappears into the cloud.

The European Broadcast Union’s core metadata standard provided the basis for the UK’s new file format.