Global Digital TV Homes Poised to Eclipse 1B
Multichannel News
The combined base of digital, satellite, IPTV and terrestrial households totaled 755 million at the end of 2012, meaning the anticipated milestone is coming way of a two-year increase of about 245 million. While cable will “remain the dominant platform 

Nanotech Partners With Fun Little Movies
Baystreet.ca
We are excited to extend our brand onto IPTV systems including Roku, Nuvola and Samsung SmartTV. We're impressed with the state of the art NanoFlix technology and look forward to expanding our reach with NanoTech," said Frank Chindamo, FLM's ...

LG develops new IPTV-based TVs for hospitality; httv opens Argentina office
FierceIPTV
LG Electronics USA has introduced the LP870H Pro:Centric Smart IPTV commercial-grade LED TVs to deliver an enhanced, interactive guest-room experience. Press release. > HbbTV supporter httv has opened a new office in Buenos Aires to promote its ...

Sky Vision flows into Stream TV
C21Media
NATPE: Russian IPTV platform Stream TV has picked up 72 hours of factual programming from UK distributor Sky Vision as Natpe Budapest gets underway. Stream TV's package includes fishing series Catching the Impossible (9x60') and Passion for Angling ...

Vodafone acquires Kabel Deutschland, merging wireless expertise with wireline
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Vodafone has tendered €7.7 billion ($10.11 billion) for the company that passes 15.3 million homes and will potentially help Vodafone's existing IPTV business via Deutschland Telekom. "Kabel Deutschland provides Vodafone with an attractive platform for ...

Telecom players take a pragmatic approach; broadcasters, not so much
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AT&T (NYSE: T), for instance, heard all the noise about how IPTV players should pay some regulatory fees to help the FCC regulate the industry (and we won't even get into that contradiction) and rather than arching their backs higher than my ...

HbbTV Consortium appoints Epeal, httv executives as marketing co-chairs
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The HbbTV Consortium, a group that develops and promotes the hybrid broadcast-broadband standard, has named Kirk Edwardson, head of marketing and sales engineering at Epeal, and Regis Saint Girons, CEO of httv, to head a marketing initiative to push ...

ZTE takes runner-up slot in global IPTV rankings
IPTV News
Chinese vendor ZTE has risen to number two position in a number of different sub-sectors of the worldwide market IPTV market, including video-on-demand, middleware and set-top boxes, according to US firm Multimedia Research Group. ZTE is currently ...