Philip Hunter

Sky COO Mike Darcey warns that quality will suffer if content becomes commoditized.

The EBU is warning Hungary that a new media law threatens broadcast freedom.

Increased UK viewing of live linear TV and associated adverts is giving a boost to commercial TV operators.

The BBC has cut online services but maintains investment in Canvas and iPlayer.

Asia will overtake Europe as the leading IPTV continent within two years.

JPEG 2000 and the MPEG-4 10-bit profile have emerged as contending encoding technologies for European operators.

The new DVB-RCS2 standard for satellite return channels is designed specifically for IP-based interactive services.

BT and Intelsat are interconnecting their fiber-based networks to extend the reach of both.

How to monetize multiplatform services is one of the big issues at London’s IPTV World Forum this week.

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.

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.

The Norwegian Web-browser vendor Opera Software will demonstrate TVs and set-top boxes enabled with HTML5 and HbbTV at IPTV World Forum in London, March 22-23.

The European Broadcast Union and Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe met in Vienna to plan joint activities on media independence.