SureWest Communications will reach 25,000 additional Sacramento-area homes with video service by second-quarter 2010 with a software platform that delivers television service over its existing networks. Known as Microsoft Mediaroom Internet Protocol TV, the service is expected to be available to new customers by the end of the year.
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SureWest launches new video service
PARKERSBURG -Maintenance crews had nearly completed the installation of security fence along the front of the Mid-Ohio Valley Transit Authority’s transportation center Wednesday. Joe Lockhart, transit authority manager, said crews have pulled down the decorative barriers to install the security fence
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MOVTA installs security fence
ndigoVision’s integrated IP video solution is at the centre of a major upgrade for the CCTV capability at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) complex in Swansea.The DVLA aims to facilitate road safety and general law enforcement by maintaining registers of drivers and collecting road tax for the UK’s 34 million vehicles.
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Upgrade for DVLA’s CCTV
The operators in North West Leicestershire District Council’s CCTV control room are understandably very busy people. As well as monitoring images from a large number of CCTV cameras located at Coalville and Ashby-de-la Zouch town centres, they also have need to react quickly and effectively to any suspicious activity they may observe at various council owned properties. The control room is located in what was originally a nightclub located within the Belvoir Shopping Centre in Coalville
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SANYO modernises North West Leicestershire District Council control room
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TV ratings giant Nielsen has decided not to adjust its national TV ratings sample to ensure that it properly represents households equipped with personal computers or Internet access. The decision follows an annual review of the process Nielsen uses to determine what types of households and individuals to mathematically “weight” to ensure that they represent the population at large
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Weighty Decision: Nielsen Decides Not To Control For PCs, Internet Access In National TV Ratings Sample
LOS ANGELES — Digital video recorders are a double-edged sword for the broadcast networks and a single-edged one for cable channels, according to a lengthy report from Sanford C. Bernstein Co
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TV viewers’DVR usage is growing quickly
Oct 18, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) — MPRT | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating — NDS reported it has released a survey in which it states that Digital Video Recorder owners have a happier home life.A DVR, such as Tata Sky+ or Hathway Digital Box Plus Recorder, allows pay-TV subscribers to pause live TV, as well as record, play back, rewind and fast-forward their TV programmes for viewing when they choose. DVR owners in India were surveyed on behalf of NDS by Media Partners Asia (MPA) Consumer Research. Other highlights of the report include: – DVR owners watch on average a total of 4.2 hours of television a day, made up of 2.9 hours of broadcast TV and 1.3 hours of recorded TV – 86 percent of respondents said they would recommend owning a DVR because it means that they do not have to rush home to watch a particular programme – 84 percent of respondents said that they were more likely to find something good to watch on TV now that they owned a DVR – 84 percent of respondents said that operating a DVR was a revelation – it is so easy to use – 22 percent of respondents already have a second DVR and a further 31 percent would consider getting a second one in the future
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NDS Survey: Digital Video Recorder Owners in India Have a Happier Home Life
CCTV surveillance systems are notoriously proprietary. (Hey, those circuits are “closed”, after all.) The IP networking protocol is generally thought of as an ‘open’ system – but that doesn’t mean all IP-based surveillance devices work together. Members of the Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (www.psialliance.org), a consortium of approximately 50 physical security product providers, continue to tackle the issue of interoperability between IP-enabled security technologies .
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Taking the ‘Closed’ Out of CCTV
LUVERNE, Minn. — A landowner suspicious of possible thefts from his rural property set up a digital video recorder that eventually led authorities right to five Rock County teens who have been charged with burglary and theft.
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Minnesota landowner uses video to nab burglary suspects