The Eurowebtainment is Europe’s truly largest business-event in its kind across Internet, Telecommunication & SAT/WEB-TV with over 700 company representatives in 2010 from 28 different countries held for the 19th time, this spring once again in Majorca.

Organizing Committee of the annual Kyiv International TV and Radio Fair - the main business forum for professionals of Ukrainian media industry - invites specialists in Media to the XVII Kyiv International TV and Radio Fair that will be held on 24-26 May 2011 at the Exhibition Centre “KievExpoPlaza”.

Main fields of professional interest:

• Television
• Radio broadcasting
• Telecommunications
• Internet
• Cinema production

Verizon will launch ESPN 3D on April 5, in time to bring sports fans outstanding 3D content including the Masters Golf Tournament and the NBA playoffs. ESPN 3D, the industry’s first 3D network, will be viewable for FiOS TV customers who have a 3D television set, 3D glasses and a high-definition set-top box. The channel will be included at no extra charge for FiOS TV customers who subscribe to the Ultimate HD package, or on its own for $9.99 per month.

“The launch of ESPN 3D on FiOS TV marks an exciting addition for our customers, giving them 24/7 access to 3D programming for the first time,” said Terry Denson, vice president of content strategy and acquisition for Verizon. “We continue to enhance our FiOS TV offering, with interactive applications, online video programming, and more and more 3D programming. And with the addition of ESPN 3D, our customers will get exciting sports programming that includes the Masters and NBA playoffs – all in 3D.”

The Spanish TV station "V Televisión" – Grupo Voz is using encoder and decoder products from Teracue IPTV Systems.

The products are being used for live TV contribution and for the connection of the different broadcast sites. With the ENC-200 encoders and DEC-200 decoders it is possible to send and to transmit video/audio signals in H.264 format over an IP connection.

For the contribution and live links a dedicated 3Mbps network connection is being used. Over this network V Televisión is transmitting SDI broadcast signals and video feeds.

Jungo launches Panorama, its next generation remote management system for DSL, Cable and Fibre service providers. Jungo Panorama enables the management of home Customer Premise Equipment as well as broadband and video services, handling the connected home as a whole and providing increased visibility across the network. This holistic home view approach enables service provider representatives to manage and provide support both for the service and at the single device level. This improves the quality of experience for subscribers while reducing support costs. Jungo's Panorama is fully integrated with NDS set-top box software and has been selected by several service providers to manage their gateways and set-top boxes.

Bridge Technologies is launching the VB330, the latest addition to its VideoBRIDGE series of digital media probes, at the IPTV World Forum in London. The VB330 offers the highest performance to form-factor ratio available in a monitoring and analysis probe. With three blades fitting in a single 1RU chassis for a total of six 10GB interfaces, the VB330 delivers a massive monitoring and analytics capability.

Designed for extremely high-density applications at points of maximum data throughput in today's 10GB core networks, the VB330's enormous capacity offers telcos, network operators, and digital media organizations a monitoring solution with the potential for scaling to match any level of traffic.

iP4.tv has chosen Ocean Blue Software as their partner to supply DVB software for its new EVO-3x platform. This will be showcased at this year's IP&TV World Forum.

iP4.tv selected Ocean Blue Software's Sunrise HD and Surfsoft PVR software for the DVB-S, T and C receivers, which will also support the leading DVB security standards such as CI+, CONAX and Irdeto.

The EVO3-x platform offers advanced features such as an innovative 3D user interface and high-performance web-based applications. The EVO-3x will support the latest streaming formats such as Adaptive streaming, Progressive Download out of the box, it also offers support for CE-HTML and Adobe Flash 10.x, making it HbbTV compliant and ready for YouView.

Netgem announces that it now offers a comprehensive turnkey solution to allow operators to deploy advanced IPTV services in any country with a short time to market.

The new solution is targeted at operators and service providers around the world, whether green field or looking to upgrade existing infrastructure, that wish to bring new digital TV and video services to their subscribers. Netgem is able to use its IPTV 2.0 approach to meet growing user demands for web enriched and multi-screen content by offering a seamless mix of broadcast TV and IP services across all screens within the connected home.

Grab the nearest couch! At the IP&TV World Forum this week, Opera Software will unveil a new version of its embeddable browser engine for TVs, so, in addition to watching your favorite shows, you can also browse the websites to your favorite shows and a host of rich associated web applications directly on your TV.

Following its recent announcements of numerous deals with Tier-1 connected TV and set-top box vendors, Opera will launch Opera Devices SDK 3.0 at the show and also demonstrate live customer solutions based on the product, as well as pure technology demos that visualize its capability.

Dreampark announces a new customer in Finland, Alcom, the leading IPTV operator on Aland. Alcom is swapping out a competitor's middleware solution and replacing it with the Dreampark Dreamgallery middleware.

Alcom, had high demands for performance and user experience that wasn't being matched in their current middleware solution. Dreamgallery allows Alcom to focus on delivering a fast and feature-rich service to their customers with no disruption while securing the traffic through Alcom's own backbone system.

BesTV is providing connected VOD services over the Internet with the help of software based transcoders from ATEME. BesTV has already deployed over 50 of ATEME’s Kyrion File Encoders for IPTV services over its dedicated network, and is now using them for connected TV as well, with plans to install more as demand increases.

BesTV’s workflow exploits the flexibility of the KFE, with its ability to support multiple formats and bitrates so as to cover both IPTV with its guaranteed performance, and the much more demanding Connected TV over the Internet.

Pace has signed a deal to expand its two year partnership with NET, the largest multi-service cable company in Latin America. Under the deal, Pace will develop new platforms to enable NET to deploy advanced digital services to its customers. Pace has also reached a significant milestone by shipping one million of its SD Zapper set-top boxes to NET.

With their extended partnership, NET will work with Pace, the leading developer of digital TV technologies for the payTV industry, to roll-out three new platforms for 2011. These will include the SD set-top box, a HD interactive set-top box and a HD PVR. These platforms will support NET's transition to complete digitised television services for its subscribers through an HD interactive set-top box. The Pace design means that users can quickly and easily upgrade to PVR capabilities by simply inserting a hard disk drive into their existing device.

Ocean Blue Software is targeting the growing number of IT companies that are looking to move into the connected digital TV market. The company has today released a paper "Software Technologies and Variations in Global Digital TV Markets", designed to give IT companies a brief insight into some of the key challenges in tackling the global TV market.

Available for free download here, the paper cites the fundamental difference between US and UK markets as a prime example. The US is dominated by cable services, whilst the UK's primary services are Freeview, Sky and Freesat. This leads to fundamental differences in digital standards that manufacturers must accommodate to address each market.

TVover.net and MM Conferences are giving away 5 free last-minute passes to the 2011 Telecommunications and Media World Symposium, March 23-24 in Warsaw, Poland. Enter to win by emailing us at media@tvover.net with subject line 'Telecommunications and Media World Symposium raffle', name, email, company, address and phone number by noon CST, March 21, 2011. The winners will be randomly drawn.

Mariner will be joining Deutsche Telekom, Informa Telecoms & Media, KPN and Portugal Telecom at the IP&TV World Forum 2011 in London as part of the IPTV Customer Satisfaction Track being held on March 22, 2011.

Mariner, a leading provider of end-to-end IPTV Service Monitoring solutions, will lead a discussion on the changing face of customer satisfaction for IPTV service providers, and what this means for their path to profitability.