In Broadcast - October 2016 - 14


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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 6 - Issue 10 | October 2016

InNews
Liberty Global Boosts
DVR Services
USA: Liberty Global has inked a
new two-year deal between VTR in
Chile and Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico, both part of LiLAC Group.
With Ericsson's Video Storage and
Processing Platform (VSPP), the
TV operators will be able to expand
the reach of their DVR services
across their countries.
Latin American TV consumers want
to decide what they want to watch
and pick-and-mix their own services - the new deal addresses this
issue.

Médiamétrie Selects
Witbe's Technologies
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ive and time-shifted - catch up, VoD,
SVoD - TV audience measurement
is a major challenge for companies in
the advertising market (broadcaster,
content provider or advertiser).
Médiamétrie - the industry leader
in media research and TV, radio and
Internet audience measurements

SGmetadata Simplifies
Metadata Management
USA: SGmetadata, a new SaaSbased metadata delivery system
from StreamGuys, claims to
cost-effectively
reduce
the
informational workload associated
with connecting and updating
listeners to streaming media.
SGmetadata uses push-based
metadata, which sends the full
layer of the provider's HTTP
protocol - including headers and
extras - to the user just once when
the streaming session starts.
Any new metadata is then only sent
as required. Fewer transactions
means less server time and
bandwidth
consumed,
which
results in lower per-user costs.

Arabic Reality
Show Report
MEA: The Arab Advisors Group has
released an updated report on the
Arabic reality TV shows aired in
2015/March 2016.
The report overviews a total of 34
Arabic reality TV shows covered in
ten FTA channels: Bedaya TV, LBCI,
MBC1, MBC3, MBC4, MTV Lebanon,
Toyour Al Jannah, Dubai TV, Sama
Dubai and Roya TV.
The report showed that out of the
34 shows analysed, 25 were locally
produced, and nine shows are
licensed from companies.

Witbe OTT
Monitoring

in France - uses an innovative
watermarking technique to measure
the audience of any kind of linear and
nonlinear TV programme.
Based on the insertion of tags on
the audio channels, this watermark
(inaudible for the human ear) enables
Médiamétrie to identify which
channels
are
being
watched and which TV
programmes are being
played. To ensure the
end-to-end
availability
and conformity of these
watermarks, Médiamétrie
has selected Witbe's
unique
monitoring
technologies.
Witbe has a strong
expertise in end-to-end
monitoring
projects,

ENENSYS Launches
Test-Tree Division

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NENSYS Technologies, designers
and manufacturers of digital TV
transmission technologies and test
and measurement equipment, has
launched its new and independent test
and monitoring division Test-Tree.
This initiative, which is the
culmination of several years' work and
considerable investment, provides a
platform for the company's established
test and measurement expertise as
well as new products development. It
replaces the previous ENENSYS Test
Systems.
Didier Farcy, Test and Monitoring
Business Unit Manager, said: "We

have invested heavily in
our test and measurement
business, particularly in the
area of 24-hour broadcast
network monitoring where
we have now sold 3,500 units
and work with over 40 Tier 1
broadcast network operators.
We want to show to the market our
increased commitment and our leading
technological expertise."
ENENSYS has been producing test
tools for the television industry since
2004.
In 2013 increased R&D development
three-fold. 2015 saw a new office

performed in real, live conditions,
as well as a unique capacity to
integrate Médiamétrie's watermarking
algorithms.
"Thanks to Witbe Robots connected
to consumer's real STBs, we are able
to efficiently monitor the availability
and the integrity of the watermarks
added by our customers in their live
and time-shifted TV programmes,"
said Jérôme Méric, Director of R&D for
Measurement Systems at Médiamétrie.
He added: "Witbe dashboards enable
us to share relevant KPIs with our
clients, ensuring our services are as
reliable as they are expected to be".
Witbe technologies have already
enabled more than 300 clients
(operators
and
broadcasters)
to measure their video content
availability and integrity.
Didier Farcy, Test and
Monitoring Business
Unit Manager

opened in Russia followed by another
in Hong Kong this year.
The launch of the Test-Tree division
that now houses the company's test
and measurement technologies, builds
upon its commitment to delivering
best-in-class services to broadcasters
worldwide.
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