IPTV providers look to apps
Broadband TV News
TV CONNECT – LONDON. Apps could yet prove to be an important source of revenue for providers of IPTV services, according to Ted Hsiung, CMO, Huawei. Citing the example of China Telecom, he said that 15% of its captured TV revenue is already from ...

Amazon enters IPTV race with multi-million-dollar series filming
Marketing magazine Australia
Amazon has joined the IPTV race, investing millions of dollars in a series of pilot shows it plans to air exclusively on its web platforms. The online retail giant is among a long list of technology players taking on traditional broadcasters by ...

IPTV surges in Korea
Broadband TV News
South Korea has taken to IPTV in a big way, with the number of subscribers growing from zero to over 6 million in the last four years. According to Hyun-Kyung Kim, senior director Korea Telecom (KT) economics and management lab, this is now equivalent ...

Longtime IPTV general manager Peter Morrill to retire
The Spokesman Review (blog)
Morrill will continue to serve while the state board launches a search for a replacement by the end of the summer, and will assist through the transition; he's been general manager at IPTV since 1996. “Peter has been an exceptional leader, and our ...

Global IPTV subs to pass 100m in 2013
Broadband TV News
The three largest country-markets (China, France and the US) each had over 10 million IPTV subscriptions at year-end 2012 and together accounted for roughly 53% of the global IPTV subscription base. The Asia-Pacific region remains the largest IPTV ..

 

Russian IPTV market grows
Broadband TV News
russia-flag There has been a sharp upsurge in the number of IPTV subscribers in St Petersburg, Russia's second city. Figures issued by the leading telco Rostelecom and published in the local press say that the company already had 80,000 as of this ...

CT upgrades IPTV system with Harmonic
Telecompaper (subscription)
Russian regional fixed operator Central Telegraph (CT) has upgraded its core IPTV stations. The new Harmonic complex enables high standards of encoding and modulation of TV channels, as well as an upgrade to a modern management system. The new ...

Giveaways, online video needed to draw new subs to IPTV
FierceIPTV
While tiresome to hear, low-hanging fruit probably best describes what IPTV and telco providers have been devouring during their short journey from scoffed-at novelty to viable business. A substantial group of consumers, unhappy with decades of ill ...

IPTV/Tendering Head
Emirates 24/7
Define/ develop / promote the company for its IPTV business from TELCO in the region This includes market assessments of existing, derivative as well as potential new markets. Travel is based on an as necessary basis, is typically intermittent. In ... 

Telestream Unveils Transcoding Solution for IPTV and Cable VOD
StreamingMedia.com
Responding to the growing IPTV and video-on-demand (VOD) needs of broadband and cable service providers, encoding specialist Telestream has released Vantage Transcode IPTV VOD. This extension of the Vantage line is meant to automate video ...

Telestream unveils new video transcoder for IPTV and cable VoD distribution
Advanced Television
Telestream, a provider of digital media tools and workflow solutions, today announced a major new enterprise-class video transcoding software product. Vantage® Transcode IPTV VoD is a highly-focused transcoding solution that was developed specifically ...

Intel offers reference for IPTV set-top
Communications, Engineering & Design Magazine
Intel has released a reference design kit for IPTV set-top boxes (STBs) and media servers based on the company's Atom CE5300 processor. Intel has been producing set-top processors aimed at consumer products from the likes of Logitech. The chipmaker ...

Bally Technologies bets on IPTV for casinos, hotels; Life Telecom sets ...
FierceIPTV
Multiple casinos and hotels are getting IPTV services thanks to an agreement between Bally Technologies and Visionary Solutions. Story. > Brazilian service provider Life Telecom hopes to sign up 12,000 IPTV subscribers by the end of the year after it ...