- Google defends H.264 removal from Chrome, says WebM plug-ins coming to Safari and IE9 — Engadget
Google renewed a heated discussion when it said it was dropping H.264 support from Chrome's HTML5 video tag last week, but it seems the company's ready and willing to push its WebM alternative video format hard — not only is hardware decoder IP now available for the VP8 codec, but the project team is presently readying WebM plug-ins for Safari and Internet Explorer 9, neither of which include it themselves.
- DVB-T2 is officially adopted by South Africa | Noticias | Rapid TV News
South Africa will migrate from analogue to digital terrestrial television by December 2013 using DVB-T2 as its broadcasting standard of choice, according to Communications Minister Radhakrishna ‘Roy’ Padayachie.
- Orange Switzerland launches VOD service | News | Rapid TV News
Swiss telecommunications company Orange has unveiled a new video-on-demand (VOD) service, Orange CineHome, which will offer more than 1,500 films, TV series and adult films.
- Comcast’s Xfinity TV Everywhere app for iPad runs into trouble | News | Rapid TV News
TV Everywhere initiatives might be the buzzword right now, but content and media companies continue to be wary about third-party distribution to gadgets like the iPad. In fact several of them have sent legal warnings to US cable behemoth Comcast, warning it that it does not have the right to stream content to tablets under existing agreements.
- International CES 2011: What We Didn’t See at the Consumer Electronics Show | Shelly Palmer Digital Living
International CES 2011 is in the history books and it was a wonderful show. Over 135,000 attendees, over 20,000 new product announcements, over 1.6 million square feet of exhibit space — it was a non-stop tech festival that truly has no equal anywhere on Earth.
