• Avishkar launches fortnightly, institutes trade award

    Submitted by ITV Production on Nov 15, 2001
    News Headline

    A fortnightly cable TV newspaper? Yes, it‘s the brainwave of the colourful Delhi-based cable operator-turned-publisher-turned-industry-representative Dr A. K. Rastogi.

    Rastogi, who runs the monthly Hindi-English bimonthly Avishkar Dish Antenna Programmes Guide, has introduced Avishkar Darpan which will initially target the north Indian market. He hopes that the fortnightly will serve as a platform for cable TV operators to increase awareness among viewers about issues which affect the industry.

    Priced at Rs 5, it is to be distributed by cable TV ops and have a print run of 10,000 initially. Rastogi says it will help viewers get information about developments in television serials and cable TV, the problems cable ops face, new services and technology provided by them to viewers, as well as give them tips on how they can get on to game shows and interactive programmes.

    Avishkar Darpan is also instituting the Best Channel Distributor award from the coming year. Winners will win air tickets for two to Kuala Lumpur, Dubai and Kathmandu, and contestants who vie for the award with an entry fee of Rs 5,000, will have their company profiled in a special souvenir.

     

  • Avishkar

    Avishkar launches fortnightly, institutes trade award

    Nov 15, 2001

    A fortnightly cable TV newspaper?

  • SCM Microsystems

    SCM Microsystems Helps Secure Chinese Digital TV Broadcasts

    Nov 14, 2001

    Californian company SCM Microsystems, a leading provider of solutions for the Digital World, will collaborate with br

  • pb

    Industry grouping nixes Prasar Bharati DTH TV proposal

    Nov 14, 2001

    The Indian Broadcasting Federation (IBF) has said nyet to state-owned broadcaster DD's DTH proposal.

  • Clea and MTV

    Clea and MTV to promote 'A Band Of Boys'

    Nov 13, 2001

    Now India has its own version of Backstreet Boys.

  • CableLabs' PacketCable Qualification process
    to roll out next year

    Submitted by ITV Production on Nov 13, 2001
    News Headline

    Cable Television Laboratories has announced that its PacketCable test programme will be ready to qualify vendors‘ products by next year.

    This will allow the cable industry to deploy PacketCable-based multimedia services such as Voice-over-Internet Protocol without delay. More than 40 PacketCable vendors have reportedly brought their products to CableLabs for experimentation and assessment. The project is updating test plans and procedures at present.

    CableLabs, which comprises cable television operators from North and South America, engages in extensive R & D, helping companies tackle challenges and explore further avenues for growth. The company claims to have made great progress in demonstrating product inter-operability. The PacketCable programme is a company initiative aimed at developing inter-operable interface specifications for delivering advanced, real-time multimedia services over two-way cable plant. Built on top of the DOCSIS 1.1 cable modem infrastructure, PacketCable networks will use Internet Protocol technology to deliver multimedia services to the consumer such as IP telephony, multimedia conferencing, interactive gaming and general multimedia applications.

    Next year, there will be four PacketCable certification waves, officials said. CableLabs is currently establishing a working prototype of the PacketCable architecture in the Louisville labs. Vendors who want their products to participate in the PacketCable Network have to submit a checklist of their implemented functionality for assessment by PacketCable.

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