Asia-Pacific News

Reports have emerged in the mainstream media of alleged support by a secretive section of NDS Group for a hacking website and associated hackers with the aim of undermining both NDS’ competitors in the pay TV encryption space and News Corporation’s pay TV operator rivals in various countries. Reports published in the Australian Financial Review [...]

The Gillard Government today terminated the Australia Network tender process, acting on the advice of the Australian Government Solicitor, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, announced.“The advice which the Government has received is that due to significant leaks of confidential information to the media, the Australia Network tender process [...]

The Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association (ASTRA) has announced that its 2012 Conference will be held on Thursday, 22 March 2012 at the Sydney Exhibition and Conference Centre. Under the theme Driving Change, the ASTRA Conference will bring together production and broadcast industry executives to hear from international and local experts about the rapidly [...]

The potential benefits of reform to media and communications regulatory settings in a convergence environment may be jeopardised if barriers to competition are not removed argues the Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association (ASTRA) in its submission to the Government Convergence Review.Commercial FTA broadcasters receive substantial support from government to provide their services. In independent [...]

The Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) has announced that Nigel Dick will deliver this year’s Hector Crawford Memorial Lecture at the opening of its annual conference on Monday, 14 November. The Lecture is the major public statement on the screen production and broadcasting industries each year. The lecture is named in recognition of the [...]

Global telecommunications company, Ericsson, says the root cause of online copyright infringement is the inadequate availability of lawful, timely, affordable, competitively priced and wide-ranging choice of digital content offerings.Describing this problem as “fundamentally a market supply failure”, Ericsson has called for more online content and a balanced approach to copyright enforcement in a research paper [...]

Marquis Broadcast, specialist in content workflows and media integration software, has appointed Intraware Australia as a new business partner for its Media Highway Technology product line. Through the newly formed partnership Intraware will offer Marquis Broadcast’s range of utilities that create elegant file based workflows and efficiencies by overcoming compatibility, storage and workflow complexities.Sequence Parking, [...]

Grass Valley, a premier video technology solutions company, has announced the grand opening of its new Asia Pacific headquarters in UE Square, Singapore. The new premises which include a regional support competency centre, as well as engineering and training facilities, which will better serve the company’s local customers, further boosting business development in this fast [...]

After 12 years as a leading recruiter to the business end of the entertainment world Entertainment Personnel has relaunched as EP.Clients and supporters gathered in Surry Hills to celebrate Entertainment Personnel’s relaunch. Judging not only by the people in the room, but also by the number of industry names who feature in testimonials on EP’s [...]

From 1 January 2012 the distribution of JVC brand products will be taken over by the brand holder JVC Kenwood Corporation.Distribution is currently handled by Hagemeyer Brands Australia (HBA) a member of the Shriro Group of Companies. The decision was a mutual one and ties in with the overall integration of the JVC and Kenwood [...]