Philip Hunter

Deutsche Telekom is one of a growing number of European service providers adopting Wi-Fi chips from Israeli semiconductor Celeno for broadcast distribution in the home.

The number of digital TV connections in the Netherlands grew by 4.2 percent during the third quarter of 2011, according to Telecompaper's quarterly Dutch Television Subscribers report.

The European Union is expected to sign an agreement with the European Broadcast Union (EBU) to back media independence across the Balkan region.

Just ahead of Netflix’ UK launch, Amazon’s LoveFilm subsidiary has opened up a long middle window for Warner Bros films after satellite broadcaster Sky but before general Free To Air availability.

As flooding in Thailand’s industrial heartland at last subsides, the impact of the lost disk drive production is being felt throughout the broadcast distribution chain.

Relevant bodies such as EBU, ITU, and SMPTE are edging towards standards for 3-D and UIltra HD ahead of key meetings in the spring of 2012.

The BBC has paved the way for its content to be available on demand via third party platforms as well as its own iPlayer by relaxing syndication rules.

Pay TV operators in Europe and elsewhere are looking to expand beyond digital entertainment to home automation and energy management for new sources of revenue.

Sky has made a long term commitment to investment in UK content by setting up a fund for British film making that will reach £600 million (almost $1 billion) by 2014.

The European HbbTV hybrid TV standard has incorporated support for HTTP adaptive streaming based on the recently published MPEG-DASH specification in its latest version.

France’s competition commission has decided to make a detailed examination of the 2006 merger between DTH operators TPS and Canal Satellite.

The number of HD channels in Europe increased by 198 during 2011 despite the economic crisis.

Eutelsat’s KabelKiosk platform, which serves cable operators in Germany and neighboring countries, is adding an HbbTV-based interactive portal.

The dream of automatic metadata generation from Audio Visual content has come a step closer.

VOD advertising workflows and quality control fail to meet the challenges of on demand video advertizing according to report.

UK Free To Air commercial broadcaster ITV is broadcasting adverts enabled by interactive technology from London-based Shazam.

Most of Europe has registered growth in pay TV subscriptions early in 2012, but not Italy and Spain.

The EBU last week held a conference about media freedom in Azerbaijan, which is hosting the Eurovision Song Contest this month, but this has not defused criticisms from human rights organizations.

A French project called SVC4QoE applied Scalable Video Coding over digital terrestrial to send high quality video to moving devices.

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.