Philip Hunter

The EBU expects big savings through adoption of NovelSat transponder technology.

Conditional access vendor Nagravision expects cost of OTT delivery over CDNs to tumble and reach tipping point when it becomes cheaper than satellite within a few years.

Another step on the way to Ultra HD (UHDTV) services has been taken by the EBU.

Viaplay claims to be first pay TV operator to combine OTT streaming and DTT with seamless channel change.

There were mixed feelings for BSkyB and Telco BT, the two winners of the bidding for English Premier League TV football rights, as they paid way more than they had budgeted for.

Norwegian content security specialist Conax has teamed up with Cubiware and MPS Broadband to add to the growing list of pre-integrated ecosystem options for pay TV operators.

Germany’s cable operators have opened two fronts, against broadcasters over carriage rights, and with the regulator over mergers, consolidation and broadband unbundling.

Terrestrial broadcasting will only be replaced by a wireless broadband system if and when people can get universal access to free content by other means, according to the EBU.

Kabel Deutschland has broadband speeds of 4.7Gb/s, fast enough to download a full HD movie in about 20 seconds.

YouTube has announced plans to stream live Olympic Games coverage to users in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

The UK pay-TV operator is developing a new EPG integrating linear and on demand content.

Europe did not pull its weight for the official launch last week of IPv6, the Internet’s second and final version of the IP protocol.

As audience research data for last month's UK royal wedding came in, it became clear that with OTT, it is much harder to count viewer numbers.

CDNs may not be the universal panacea for wireline video delivery after all.

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.

A report by Research and Markets highlights the intense competition in one of Europe’s most affluent digital media markets.

Cisco’s European CTO for video technology argues that over-the-top service providers need to integrate unicast and multicast delivery to support large numbers of users.

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 European Broadcasting Union agrees with the Amaury Sport Organization that major cycling events will be shown on free-to-air analog channels until at least 2015.

In the UK, BT regrets pulling out of cellular telephony a decade ago but believes mobile TV offers a way back.

Over-the-top services will overtake IPTV by 2013 and then leave it quickly behind, reaching a subscriber base of 380 million by 2015, according to research by Informa Telecoms & Media.

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.