Philip Hunter

OTT needs standards like never before to deliver the promised service diversity and flexibility.

A significant TV milestone has been reached with setting of firm standards for the two flavors of Ultra HD, 4K and 8K, by the ITU with help from the EBU.

The UK government has admitted that as many as 2 million homes using digital terrestrial services could suffer interference from emerging 4G services.

Russian Telco Rostelecom has relaunched its IPTV service with OTT extensions for multi-screen access, amid rapid customer growth.

The Union played the lead role in founding FOBTV.

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.

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

The UK business lobbying group, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), has called on the BBC and government to help the country’s TV and media sectors expand internationally.

Netflix has duly launched its subscription VOD service in the UK with the prospect of disrupting the premium content market there and in the rest of Europe.

The decision by French pay TV operator Canal Plus to close its 3D channel reflects low interest in 3D across Europe, and lack of content.

Shane O’Neill, SVP and chief strategy officer at Europe’s largest broadband and pay TV operator Liberty Global, resigned from his posts Dec. 30, 2011.

Europe must revise its copyright laws and establish extended collective licensing as part of its move towards a single digital market.

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.

A new Rethink report predicts that rest of Europe will follow France into a more competitive pay-TV market.

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.

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.

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