UK's Lords calls for IPTV
Broadcast Engineering
The UK's House of Lords has put its weight behind a wholesale switch from digital terrestrial to broadband for public service broadcast delivery, even though this ...

Malaysia's REDtone sells IPTV division
IPTV News
Malaysian service provider REDtone is quitting the IPTV game in order to focus on its broadband and telephony customers, according to local financial daily The ...

Logitech camera lets you Skype on your TV set
Broadcast Engineering-Aug 14, 2012
Logitech and Skype have announced the Logitech TV Cam HD, a high-definition TV camera with a built-in Skype capability that operates on any HDTV set with ...


UTStarcom's income data falls back heavily in Q2
Morning Whistle
(NASDAQ: UTSI), a provider of IP-based network solutions in iDTV, IPTV, Internet TV and broadband for cable and telecom operators, reported on August 13 its ...

Google Unveils Premium TV Packages
World Screen
KANSAS CITY: The lineup for Google's new IPTV service Fiber TV includes three premium add-on packages, including a Starz bundle and one that features ...

Africa/Middle East News
Satellite Today (subscription)
European Communication Services (ECS) has partnered with OH TV to offer joint broadcast and IPTV services to the African broadcast market and various ...

Positive outlook for Russian pay-TV
Broadband TV News
According to data produced by J'son and Partners and published by Tass Telekom, the Russian pay-TV market was already one of the largest in the world as of the end of last year, with 29.6 million households receiving digital cable, satellite or IPTV ...

Telekom Austria sees IPTV boost in tough market
DigitalTVEurope.net
Telekom Austria's A1TV service saw an 18.1% uptick in subscribers over the first half of this year, taking its total to 206300. Its bundled fixed-line customers passed the one million mark. Overall, however, Telekom Austria continued to suffer from ...

Hotel Technology Entertainment Services Company - TiVUS to Host ...
Broadcast Newsroom
TiVUS' unique HD IPTV system is a complete hotel entertainment platform that, for the first time in the industry, generates previously untapped income for the ...

Who Will Police the TV of the Future?
CisionWire (press release)
IPTV will pose a serious challenge to policy makers and it almost certainly will ... For someone like me – working in the IPTV industry – this is an opportunity to ...


Digital TV via cable grows in Switzerland
Rapid tv news
IPTV platform Swisscom TV reaches a market share of 28% with its 694000 customers. ... Far behind follow DTT with 70000 households (3%) and IPTV platform ...


Canal+, Movistar to share Champions League broadcast rights
Telecompaper (subscription)
Canal+ Espana will share UEFA Champions League broadcast rights with Telefonica's Imagenio IPTV platform. Canal+ holds the broadcast rights to the UEFA ...

Bell Canada adds 38k IPTV subs in Q2
IPTV News
Bell Canada's thriving IPTV service 'Fibe TV' is helping to offset its declining voice customers and even attract more customers to its high-speed broadband services, according to the company's latest quarterly results. The company added 38447 new ...

MRG Turns Its Focus Toward China
Broadcast Newsroom
In consideration of the largest Pay-TV market in the world, MRG has taken a deep dive into China's IPTV, Cable, Satellite, and DMTB Set-Top Box arena. China has become a hotbed of activity for set-top box deployments and product development. In 2011 ...

Season of the switch: Pay TV subscriber numbers take a quarterly hit
FierceIPTV
Subscriber numbers were down--not necessarily negative, but down--across the entire MVPD space for the second quarter, leading IHS Screen Digest to predict that times are tough and could remain that way for pay-TV providers this year.

On-demand TV revenues to rise 54% by 2017
IPTV News
On-demand TV revenues from movies and TV programmes (and excluding revenues from other sources such as sports and adult and also excluding SVOD packages and the internet) will reach US$ 6bn in 2017, up from US$ 3.9bn in 2011 and US$ 2.3bn in ...