PwC: The great IPTV switch
B&T Marketing & Media
More than one quarter of Australians will have switched to IPTV within four years, with over half already owning a device that could enable IPTV, according to the PricewaterhouseCooper, Entertainment and Media 2012 to 2016 report. The company predicts ...

PwC report: IPTV and digital subscriptions set to be media's new cash cows
Marketing magazine Australia
IPTV will be subscribed to by 27% of Australians by 2017 and is expected to be one of the strongest contributors to media revenue over the next five years, which will be driven by consumer spend ahead of ad dollars, a new report has found.

Broadcast TV online to free up mobile spectrum, says UK's House of Lords
The Verge
A House of Lords committee has advised the British government to consider the possibility of putting an end to the "wasteful" broadcast of television content over the airwaves. In a report on the UK's broadband infrastructure published today, the House ...

Telstra's naive TV vision
Business Spectator
Telstra recently stated that it does not see over-the-top IPTV services as a serious threat to the broader media industry. Taking such an approach is, in our view, extremely arrogant and dangerous. It sounds like the 'Google schmoogle' statement of the ...

Not the greatest country for IPTV
FierceIPTV
HBO's drama "The Newsroom" hinges on the premise that cable news anchor Will McAvoy jumpstarted his career as an opinionated, tell-it-like-it-is "journalist" when presented with a question by a naïve college student who inferred that the United States ...

Infonetics: Video Infrastructure Markets Growing Despite Challenges; Big Year ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... Jul 31, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from 2 recent video reports, Video-on-Demand (VOD) and Encoder Equipment and Video Subscribers, which tracks equipment sold to telco IPTV, cable video, ...

 German TV ratings to track IPTV

Google's IPTV service missing major cable nets, including ESPN
Rapid tv news
The Internet giant is launching IPTV service in Kansas City (registration opened last week), but Disney/ESPN, CNN, TBS, FOX and HBO all have yet to sign on for the service. Google Fiber TV and broadband, which will deliver a 1Gbps connection to the ...

NanoTech Entertainment (NTEK) Expands Into Television
MarketWatch (press release)
LAS VEGAS, July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- NANOTECH ENTERTAINMENT (pinksheets:NTEK) is pleased to announce it has entered into a strategic partnership to expand into the Television, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), and Mobile ...

Sundance Channel launches in Thailand, China
Indiantelevision.com
Sundance On-Demand will also debut in China for the first time on BesTV, Shanghai Media Group's booming IPTV platform business. In Europe, Sundance Channel will expand its on-demand offerings with a VOD launch on Belgacom, Belgium's leading ...

IPTV seen as important piece of Australian media and entertainment industry future
FierceIPTV
IPTV, along with other online television subscription services, are expected to be the drivers for Australia's media and entertainment industry as it grows 18 percent over the next five years, according to the annual PwC media report, says a story in ...

KPN expands IPTV service to smartphones
Telecompaper (subscription)
KPN is expanding its IPTV service with access to live TV on smartphones. Subscribers to the Interactieve TV service can watch live TV while at home on their smartphones. The service is available from 03 July for iPhone users and from 06 August with ...

NanoTech Entertainment moves into IPTV with technology and 'fresh original ...
FierceIPTV
Infused by a partnership agreement with private investment firm FS Global Capital, Las Vegas-based NanoTech Entertainment is adding television, IPTV and mobile video to its portfolio of entertainment businesses. The company, in a promise-filled news ...

Albis Technologies Demos SceneGate Micro II 3DTV Ready IPTV Set-Top Box at ...
3Droundabout
At IBC2012, Albis Technologies will exhibit its comprehensive range of HD IPTV set-top boxes (STB), including the new SceneGate™ Micro II, a cutting-edge STB that features enhanced graphical capabilities and supports OpenGL-based user interfaces.