| Turkey’s Dogan TV Introduces Pay-TV, No Monthly Fee |
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Dogan TV Holding is Turkey’s leading broadcasting company. Mustafa Gözalan, Executive Board Member of the Dogan Media Group discusses their market as well as the D-Smart platform which uses NDS MediaHighway™ middleware and VideoGuard® conditional access. What’s different about D-Smart? There’s no monthly fee. more |
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| Using Metadata to JUMMP Forward and Back |
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Although DVRs and media players are growing in popularity, their ability to jump to points of interest has not been fully exploited. JUMMP is a new group of broadcasters, aggregators and suppliers, and newsroom and sports vendors that aims to define how the right metadata can be delivered to the end device. more |
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| “Caching in” with Ad Substitution |
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Platform operators are aware of the diverse demographics for the users of their DVRs. They know that an ad may be relevant to one box but not another. To make the most of 30 second ad spots they must deliver the appropriate ads to each DVR. That’s what xADs™ from NDS does. more |
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China: World’s Largest TV Market Poised for Major Advances
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While China is poised to become the world’s largest TV market it is not necessarily the most advanced. But with next year’s Olympics in Beijing and an upcoming international exhibition in Shanghai, major infrastructure projects are underway. Switching from analog to digital TV by 2015 is one of them. more |
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| [Commentary:] Get a (Second) Life! |
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While broadcasters are still wrestling with how to respond to the impact of social media like MySpace and YouTube, along comes the latest “disruptive technology” says Paul Davies. He suggests that the potential impact of Second Life could be the beginning of a brave new virtual world. more |
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