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  • Ragpickers’ contribution ‘Salam Hai’ picks up PACE

    Ragpickers’ contribution ‘Salam Hai’ picks up PACE

    MUMBAI: This Gandhi Jayanti, PACE (PET Packaging Association for Clean Environment) has launched a special initiative to recognise the contribution of grassroots recyclers – the ragpickers – who make the first and biggest contribution to the recycling of PET bottles.

    Kicking off a communication campaign ‘Salam Hai’ (‘Salute’) to highlight the contribution of ragpickers in the recycling process of PET bottles, a special video campaign has been released on social media.

    PET (polyethylene terephthalate) is one of the most widely used plastics for packaging applications and is 100 per cent recyclable. Discarded PET bottles are collected, sorted, cleaned, shredded, and made into washed flakes, which are then used to produce products like polyester fibre.

    In India, over 70 per cent of PET waste is recycled and aids livelihoods to millions employed in the entire value chain of recycling process.

    ‘Salam Hai’ is themed on the life of ragpickers and their contribution to the recycling industry. The video features the ‘silent heroes’ of India who are doing their part. Today, ragpickers collect around 500,000 tons per year of post-consumer PET bottles for producing polyester fibre alone, earning around Rs 10 billion per year.

    PACE secretary-general P C Joshi says: “Ragpickers are the silent heroes who stand at the beginning of the recycling value chain.”

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  • Dish TV considers deploying 15-20 million multi-layer CAS STBs over 5 years

    Dish TV considers deploying 15-20 million multi-layer CAS STBs over 5 years

    MUMBAI: The Jawahar Goel led Direct-to-home service provider Dish TV India is considering deployment of around 15-20 million Set Top Boxes(STBs) incorporating multi-layer condition access system (CAS) solutions over a period of 5 years and is hopeful of completing the selection process by December 2015. Adoption of multi-layer (CAS) will ward off potential security threats as well as enhance system efficiency going forward.

     

    Further, Dish TV is also toying with deployment of STB’s supporting card-less technology simultaneously. Currently, the DTH operator uses Conax card-based CAS from Nagra and plans to adopt simulcrypting technology going forward..

     

    Dish TV recently issued a request for proposal (RFP) to leading CAS vendors across the globe. Irdeto, Viaccess, Pace, Verimatrix, Cisco, Nagra, Nstv, Conax, Civolution-Nexguard, CRI and SMI are some of the vendors that have shown the interest. The company is currently evaluating all proposals received on a strict core security benchmark and shall select multiple partners keeping its business interests in mind..

     

    With more than 13 million subscribers Dish TV, a part of the Essel Group also provides digital cable television services through its cable distribution arm, Siti Cable (approx. 4 million subscribers). 

     

    Zee Entertainment Enterprise Limited (ZEEL) is the flagship company of the group, and beams more than 100 channels across the globe, through its direct to operator (DTO) arm.

  • Indian MSO Radiant Digitek Network selects Pace pre-integrated software and STB solution

    Indian MSO Radiant Digitek Network selects Pace pre-integrated software and STB solution

    MUMBAI: Pace, a global leader for digital TV and broadband technologies, is pleased to announce that Indian cable MSO, Radiant Digitek Network has selected its pre-integrated middleware, conditional access and set-top box solution to deliver premium TV services to its subscribers. Pace’s pre-integrated solution is a cost-effective solution for operators who seek a high quality turnkey pay TV platform but don’t have the time or resources to manage multiple technology partners or complex systems integration work.

     

    With a heritage of reliable, high-quality hardware design Pace’s turnkey solution is fully DVB-C compliant and includes their high performance Standard Definition (SD) MPEG-2 cable set-top box (STB), Elements Middleware, and Titanium cardless CAS, enabling cable operators to deliver a feature-rich experience to viewers and build new revenues as the growth in digitisation in India continues.

     

    Radiant Digitek, a major cable MSO in the Rajasthan region in North India, has selected the turnkey Pace solution based on lower total cost of ownership, quality of service and improved time to market Pace could provide. The solution incorporates a wide range of EPG features, including favourites, channel list management, personal video recording and parental control.

     

    Lokesh Joshi, Director for Radiant Digitek Network comments: “We needed a solution that would enable us to quickly roll out digital services to our customers at a low total cost of ownership. The Pace end-to-end integrated solution has provided us with a one stop shop solution from a trusted partner who believe in a personalised quality of service.”

     

    Miguel Gil, VP and General Manager for Pace International Software and Services, comments: “Pace’s turnkey hardware and software solution is perfect for Indian cable operators looking for a flexible, cost-effective solution that is quick to deploy, while maintaining the high quality that customers have come to expect from Pace. As cable MSO’s look to exploit the opportunities from digitisation, Pace can enable them to quickly deploy an enhanced viewing experience and new services to subscribers at attractive economics.”

  • Entropic appoints Tanmay Jha to expand its India biz

    Entropic appoints Tanmay Jha to expand its India biz

    MUMBAI: Entropic, a semiconductor solutions for connected homes is looking at expanding its base in India. Thus, the company has announced the appointment of Tanmay Jha as its associate director for sales for India.

     

    Prior to joining Entropic, Jha was working with Pace-India. In his new role, he will focus on growing Entropic’s set-top box (STB) system-on-a-chip (SoC) and connectivity businesses in the Indian sub-continent. Jha will be based in New Delhi and will report to EMEA and India VP sales Noel McKenna.

     

    “I am happy to be a part of Entropic. My immediate role will be to push Entropic’s suite of system-on-chip, broadband access and channel stacking switch solutions to the cable and satellite operators across the country,” said Jha.

     

    Jha joins Entropic with 20-years of Pay-TV sales experience. He was with Pace – India for two years as an integral STB sales team member. Earlier, Jha has also worked with a number of leading Indian Pay-TV companies including the IPTV, Myway, as well as with Zee Turner, Sahara TV, Tata Communication and Sify.

     

    “We welcome Tanmay to Entropic’s dynamic sales team – where we are focused on developing new business and growing sales in the Indian sub-continent market,” said McKenna. “He brings a depth in knowledge and local market expertise to help increase Entropic’s regional presence as the only pure-play platform semiconductor supplier in connected home entertainment,” he added.

  • OpenTV previews its vision for the future at IBC 2006

    OpenTV previews its vision for the future at IBC 2006

    MUMBAI: OpenTV, which provides enabling technologies for advanced digital television services, will showcase its latest technologies under the banner of “television is changing … open it up!” at the IBC show in Amsterdam.

    The event takes place from 8-12 September 2006.

    The theme, grounded by the premise that today’s television viewers are demanding greater choice, flexibility, and access, encompasses the entire range of OpenTV’s products on display. By ‘opening up’ the technologies that serve as a foundation for set-top boxes and digital television, OpenTV says that it is taking a leadership position by enabling the adoption of flexible business models and compelling viewer experiences in the television industry.

    OpenTV chairman and CEO James A. (Jim) Chiddix says, “Today, the central technologies for building and maintaining social networks around the world are the phone and the internet.

    “OpenTV believes that TV is next, and that the way to survive in this changing world is to embrace explore, and enable that change. When we say we are ‘opening up’ television, we are extending our tradition of pioneering middleware and related solutions to new content sources, new navigation models, new forms of television advertising, and new experiences in participation with television.”

    Featured products at IBC will include solutions for advanced digital
    television; advanced advertising; and participation television.

    — OpenTV Vision: Supporting its theme for IBC, OpenTV will debut a supermodal, zoomable user interface (ZUI) that fundamentally changes the way viewers navigate and make viewing choices from the massive amounts of available content, by providing navigation tools that create relevance and match interests.

    — Advanced Digital Television:– OpenTV will showcase a number of live HDTV services from OpenTV customers as well as a wide array of HD set-top boxes from ADB, Pace, Philips, Scientific Atlanta, and Thomson.

    — OpenTV will demonstrate the power of its popular Core2/PVR2
    set-top software through the demonstration of a HD guide
    developed by Nagravision. The guide features key elements such
    as time-shifting, scheduling, and series linking, as well as
    push VOD.

    — OpenTV will demonstrate IPTV, highlighting a solution for
    hybrid IPTV deployments by cable and satellite operators.

    — OpenTV Core2/PVR2 supports multiple application execution
    environments including HTML and Flash(R). OpenTV will showcase
    its Flash solution, based on the award-winning MachBlue(TM)
    from Bluestreak Network, supporting rapid authoring of enhanced
    programming using standard Adobe(R) Flash authoring tools.

    OpenTV will also demonstrate its industry -leading HTML
    solution with home networking applications.

    — OpenTV has also integrated technologies with ICTV(TM) and will
    be demonstrating a personalized mosaic that delivers
    alternative navigation and Internet-type programming and
    advertising capabilities to OpenTV-enabled set-top boxes.

    As far as advanced advertising:solutions are concerned the company will conduct demonstrations that will feature an end-to-end production system for enhanced advertising that engages audiences by enabling compelling, interactive advertising applications to be created, validated, scheduled, and launched more quickly and less
    expensively.

    — Also shown will be OpenTV’s advertising sales and inventory
    management solutions with a demonstration of OpenTV’s ad
    decision engine for dynamic insertion of targetted ads.