Foxtel to launch TV Everywhere next month
IPTV News
Australian telco Foxtel has indicated that it plans to launch a new over-the-top TV service called 'Play' next month, bringing over 40 linear channels to a variety of connected devices such as smart TVs, PCs and smartphones, with no lock-in contracts ...

Oz IPTV launch date set
C21Media
Australian satellite broadcaster Foxtel has confirmed its IPTV service, Foxtel Play, will launch in mid-August. Offering more than 40 channels and at least 2,000 catch-up programmes on-demand, the service will be pitched at the 70% of the population ...

HickoryTech Deploys Amino Set-Tops
Light Reading
HickoryTech Corporation (NASDAQ: HTCO), the leading provider serving business and residential customers in the upper Midwest, has deployed Amino's HD set-top boxes as part of its IPTV service offering. Working closely with one of its US distributors ...

 Internet-linked surveillance on Charbagh station soon
Hindustan Times
“The IPTV link will allow senior officers to track passenger movement on the station premises 24X7 on their computer and even on laptops or Android-enabled mobile phones,” senior superintendent of police (GRP) Manoj Kumar said. “The IPTV footage can ...

Teliphone Corp. Announces the Sale of its IPTV Assets to Coastline ...
Sacramento Bee
VANCOUVER, July 18, 2013 -- /CNW/ - Vancouver-based Teliphone Corp. (OTCQB:TLPH), one of the world's local digital telecommunications companies, announced today that it has reached an agreement to sell all its IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) ...

ITU puts G.fast on track for 2014 approval
FierceIPTV
Share. Tools. Comment; Print · Contact Author · Reprint. The ITU has offered multiple rays of hope for telcos that want to get into the IPTV space but are unwilling or unable to build out fiber infrastructure to deliver the necessary broadband speeds.

HomeGrid Forum certifies 12 HomePNA products from Arris, Pace, others
FierceIPTV
Twelve new products from seven vendors have been certified HomePNA compliant by the HomeGrid Forum, marking the first such certification since the two bodies merged in late May. The newly certified products include set-top boxes from Arris (Nasdaq: ...

Verizon FiOS hits 5 million subscriber mark as consumer revenues climb
FierceIPTV
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) added 140,000 FiOS video customers in the second quarter and now has more than 5 million customers nationwide, the carrier said in announcing second quarter earnings. The 140,000 additions were less than the 169,000 video subs ...

IPTV TV show host encourages Britt kids to read
Mason City Globe Gazette
BRITT - An Iowa Public Television star said he would rather have kids reading than watching him on TV. "I bring you shocking news from IPTV," Dan Wardell said. "I want you to turn your TVs off, play outside, use your imagination and read a good book.".

ITU injects UltraHD over IPTV boost with new 1Gbps standard
Rapid tv news
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has launched a new broadband standard which it believes will deliver fibre-based performance over copper wires. The new G.fast is claimed to be able to deliver up to 1Gbps performance over existing ...

HickoryTech picks Amino STBs
IPTV News
US telco HickoryTelco has selected IPTV set-top boxes from UK firm Amino Technologies to deliver video services across the upper Midwest. Amino will provide its A140 HD set-top boxes to HickoryTech, which operates a 4,100 mile fibre-based network ...

HickoryTech employs Amino set-tops for its IPTV service
FierceTelecom
Maintaining that growth and offering new HD-based IPTV services to its customers with a host of standalone and bundled packages that include flexible contracts and features like multiroom DVR will be key factors in helping the telco offset ongoing ...

WISI and IP.Netcom launch HbbTV-IPTV combination set-top
DigitalTVEurope.net
German cable technology company WISI and IP.Netcom have teamed up to provide a hybrid HbbTV and classic IPTV set-top box as part of the AiMS multiscreen content management system. The set-top uses the ETSI DVB-IP standard and has a CI+ slot as ...

EroAdvertising Adds IPTV Device Filter
XBIZ
OSS, The Netherlands — EroAdvertising has announced a new filter that enables users to target specific IPTV devices. EroAdvertising currently supports the following IPTV devices: GoogleTV, WebTV, MSNTV, SmartTV, HbbTV, SonyDTV, Philips NetTV, Xbox ...

IHS: 8% growth in global shipment of STBs in 2013
EE Herald
IHS has estimated the global shipments of STBs used for cable, satellite, terrestrial and Internet protocol television (IPTV) digital TV services are forecast to climb to 269 million units this year, up 8 percent from 250 million in 2012. IHS also ...

August start for Foxtel's internet-delivered TV menu
The Australian
FOXTEL'S new IPTV service, Play, will launch within a month. Foxtel's executive director of television, Brian Walsh, said the service, which will allow more "a la carte" access to Foxtel programming through its internet-delivered TV service, will be ...

 Telekom launches Entertain to go
Rapid tv news
Deutsche Telekom has launched Entertain to go to enable subscribers to its IPTV platform Entertain access to part of the offering on mobile devices (iPad and laptops) as well as PCs, for an additional monthly fee of €4.95. At launch, around 40 TV ...

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