Limelight releases a streaming service beta program for Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server 3. The new service leverages the integration of Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server 3 into Limelight Networks' global, rich-media CDN. Select customers in the US can take advantage of this program to enable their Adobe Flash media content and bring the next generation of online experiences to consumers worldwide.

The new platform created by Limelight Networks to support Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server 3 will provide customers with enhanced features and capabilities including the ability to stream industry standard H.264 video and HE-AAC audio streaming for high quality Web video and encrypted streaming using RTMPE and SWF verification for improved content protection.

Kordia and TVWorks have selected TANDBERG Television for its industry leading digital terrestrial television head-end system for the delivery of the Freeview New Zealand DTT service. New Zealand’s Freeview digital terrestrial network will deploy the latest MPEG-4 AVC solutions to provide around 75% of New Zealanders with a new HDTV service, as well as SD programming. Trials are set to commence early December, with a launch date set for early next year. Freeview New Zealand is a free-to-air digital TV service, currently transmitting standard definition programming in MPEG-2 across the country via a satellite direct to home platform.

Screen Digest examines the market for mobile TV in 25 countries worldwide including Europe, the US and Asia. Entitled ‘Mobile TV: Business Models and Opportunities’ the analysis provides two perspectives on the market: one from the TV industry and the other from the mobile content industry. According to the report there are a myriad of issues for mobile operators, broadcasters and content owners to address if they are to make a profit from increasing customer demand for mobile TV services.

There are two delivery methods for mobile TV - Broadcast and Unicast. Throughout the report figures are provided for both in each of the three main regions, Asia, Europe and North America. The Broadcast market is expected to experience rapid growth, with the number of markets offering the service tripling in the next two years to stand at 18 by the end of 2008. In the last two years new services have been launched in Italy, the UK, Germany, the US and Japan. Screen Digest believe that Broadcast will become the most prevalent method to deliver TV to mobiles, with the more niche approach offered by Unicast complementing it with premium and added value services.

Envivio is providing the video encoding for MTV’s mobile TV services in Brazil. MTV’s mobile programming is being delivered using a Brazilian variant of the successful Japanese ISDB-T digital terrestrial television standard which includes the 1seg specification for mobile TV. As Brazil is among the world's largest mobile phone markets, with more than 110 million users, the government mandated that content delivery to mobile devices be included within the new national digital TV system. The Envivio 4Caster B3 encoder, selected by MTV as well as several other broadcasters, is the first encoding product to support the specification defined within the Brazilian 1seg mobile TV standard.

Dreampark announces that TUS TELEKOM has selected Dreamgallery as the middleware for their IPTV solution. Dreampark's IPTV middleware (Dreamgallery) maximizes operator flexibility by taking advantage of the powers of the HTML standard. Dreamgallery enables operators to move faster than the competition in order to create unique differentiators, and who want to base their solutions on standards rather than being locked in to a proprietary platform. The solution enables graphical flexibility due to the ability to generate pictures out of templates on the server side.

WHAT: Panel:“Protecting Premium Content Services.” Steve Christian, VP of Marketing at Verimatrix, will be discussing the role of content security as network operators invest in IPTV to augment cable and satellite services. Operators must also consider the latest security technologies as they plan out their “three screen” vision for their network.

WHEN: Thursday, 6 Dec. at 10:30 a.m.
WHERE: Suntec, Singapore