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Blusens, la multinacional tecnológica gallega, presenta hoy el web:tv, su nuevo dispositivo de Hogar Conectado que lleva internet a tu televisión. El web:tv es también un avanzado reproductor multimedia de Alta Definición que puede conectarse por red a tu ordenador, discos duros USB, routers, etc y reproducir múltiples formatos de vídeo, música y fotos. Incorpora un sintonizador TDT HD y cuenta con funciones avanzadas de timeshift y PVR. Además incluye acceso al videoclub online de Blusens TV, navegador web y aplicaciones externas.
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Vodafone España lanza una aplicación de televisión en el móvil con programación en directo para Android. De esta forma, los clientes de la operadora pueden disfrutar en directo de la programación de Gol Televisión, Antena 3, Telecinco y laSexta en smartphones con sistema operativo Android.

El paquete de GOL TELEVISIÓN ofrece acceso al mejor canal de fútbol con la misma programación en directo que la TDT de pago que incluye toda la Champions League (112 partidos en exclusiva), 3 partidos de Liga por jornada (siempre uno del Real Madrid o del FC Barcelona), la Copa del Rey, la Liga de Segunda y el mejor fútbol internacional. Además, Vodafone TV, la plataforma de televisión para el móvil de Vodafone, cuenta en la actualidad con más de 10 canales de los que 3 se emiten en directo: Antena 3, Telecinco y laSexta. También ofrece otros canales TDT y contenidos de música, series, dibujos animados, como por ejemplo: el canal de Bob Esponja o Fox.

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Envivio, the leading provider of live and on-demand multi-screen video processing solutions, announced today it has added support for the new Windows Phone 7 operating system to its multi-screen video head ends based on the 4Caster™ C4 family of encoder/transcoders. The enhancement will maximize video quality by using the industry’s highest quality H.264 compression—Envivio Extreme™ encoding—and provide support for the advanced playback and content protection features Telco operators and over the top service providers need to offer premium video services.

“The combination of the Envivio Three Screens video processing platform and Microsoft IIS Smooth Streaming has proven itself a winner for deployments around the world,” said Envivio vice president of marketing Boris Felts. “Providing support for Windows Phone 7 is a natural extension of the work we have already done with Microsoft and furthers Envivio’s commitment to enabling the best video services for the latest generation of smartphones.”
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SPB Software, a leading mobile software developer, is proud to announce that it is a CSI Award 2010 winner in «Best mobile TV technology or service» category for SPB TV. Judged on technical merit and market contribution by an independent, experienced and highly respected pool of international industry figures SPB TV won this award in competition with such brands as 3 UK TV and Swisscom TV whereby proved its best in class usability and underlying streaming technology.
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Envivio, the leading provider of live and on-demand multi-screen video processing solutions, announced today that a new firmware upgrade for its 4Caster C4 family of Three Screen video encoders brings to market the world’s first unified, broadcast-quality, video processing platform with built-in support for all leading IPTV, Mobile and Internet TV video formats. The new 4Caster 2.3 release will be on display for the first time at IBC 2010 in Stand 1.D72.

With the new 4Caster C4 offering, service providers can reduce the complexity and cost of their video headends by using a single encoder to handle all of the pre-processing of a source and then output concurrent, high quality, optimized streams to support any device in their network. Content and TV channel providers can deploy a single encoder to prepare a channel or content stream for simultaneous distribution to multiple service providers and a variety of delivery platforms. In both cases, the upgrade significantly reduces the need for multiple, parallel silos of equipment.

“Everyone is talking about the new multi-screen world, but video headend providers are still offering old-style, single-purpose headends for video processing,” said Boris Felts, VP of marketing, Envivio. “With our latest generation 4Caster C4 firmware, Envivio dramatically simplifies planning and development for service providers, broadcasters, and content owners. Not only can they repurpose 4Caster C4 systems for other screens―a feature Envivio has offered for years―but each encoder can support multiple screens and adapt to changing services. Regardless of configuration, each screen receives the full benefit of Envivio’s proven and patented industry-leading technologies for maximizing video quality.”

The new 4Caster C4 firmware provides key enhancements that simplify deployment of Over the Top video services, including a native publishing interface for leading content delivery networks such as Akamai, Level 3 and Limelight, as well as integrated content protection via Playready and HLS encryption with built-in key interfaces for major DRM platforms. Envivio has extended the system’s unmatched picture quality with added support for 1080p resolution video for Flash, PIFF and Apple HTTP Live Streaming. Support for alternative audio streams, subtitles, closed captioning and significantly reduced end to end transmission delay as compared to the live event extend the appeal of Over the Top video services by creating a sophisticated experience comparable to DVD and advanced digital services. In stream ad insertion creates new opportunities for revenue development.

All screens benefit from a new generation of video pre-processing tools that improve the quality of source signals and ensure that content is optimized before compression begins. Furthermore, Envivio’s new release of its proprietary Extreme encoding technology increases the efficiency and quality of the compression codec, yielding measurable results including a ten percent compression improvement for mobile services.

A new array of video cross-conversion upscaling algorithms uses proprietary Envivio technology to eliminate the need for additional stand-alone hardware. Based on an advanced combination of field structure analysis, motion-adaptive deinterlacing and polyphase resizing filters, the video quality achieved through these Envivio-exclusive enhancements rivals the most expensive SD to HD cross-converters.

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