Orange Business Services Renews Next-Generation Telecoms Service Contract in ...
MarketWatch (press release)
For the past five years, Solidere has been delivering an on-demand IPTV channel service in its flagship development in Beirut, offering a range of movies, sports and TV programs that stream directly to residents' TVs over the market-leading, ...

Solidere gains IPTV boost with juiced up Orange network
Rapid tv news
Orange Business Services and Solidere have renewed and enhanced a five-year telecoms infrastructure contract designed to beef up broadband network and IPTV services for the Beirut Central District. Over the past five years, Solidere has offered ...

YouView launch date revealed as 14 May?
TechRadar UK
YouView, which is an IPTV service intended to bring together catch up services from the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and other terrestrial broadcasters, has been delayed repeatedly, with its original launch date set for 2010. The televisual landscape is very ...

YouView to launch in May?
IPTV News
The first products compatible with the UK's long-awaited connected TV platform YouView may be launching as soon as May, according to reports on news portal Techradar. The reports quote Emma Barnett, a journalist at newspaper The Daily Telegraph, ...

For Growth, IPTV Operators Create New Services
Communications Technology
The number of global IPTV subscribers will grow from 53 million last year to 105.1 million in 2015, a CAGR of 18.7 percent. A recent report from MRG Inc. also found service revenues for the global IPTV market totaled $21.8 billion in 2011, projected to ...

Sunrise Telecom to Debut packetWORXTM IPTV Suite and Demonstrate Advanced ...
SunHerald.com
Sunrise Telecom's packetWORX Suite enables service providers to quickly and efficiently validate IP-based applications, such as IPTV, dramatically reducing deployment and troubleshooting complexities. The company will also showcase its award-winning ...

Alticast Releases Next-Generation DTV Ecosystem
MarketWatch (press release)
SEOUL, South Korea, March 5, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Alticast announces the launch of Windmill(TM), an end-to-end digital interactive ecosystem for TV operators with support for cable, satellite, DTT, IPTV and hybrid systems.

Lionsgate Signs Chinese IPTV Deal
Home Media Magazine
Lionsgate March 5 said it signed a license agreement with Youku to distribute upwards of 200 movies on the Chinese IPTV company's ad-supported video-on-demand movie service. Lionsgate movies include Hotel Rwanda, Monster's Ball and Mr. Magorium's ...

Globo gets Brazilian TV rights to 2018, 2022 World Cup
‎Rapid tv news
The carriage deal is multiplatform, encompassing not only cable and satellite but also IPTV, online and mobile platforms. The agreement builds on broadcast ...

ProSiebenSat.1 eyes Austria 9
‎Broadband TV News
The channel is available on DTH satellite, the Sky Austria platform, via A1 TV (IPTV) and on kost cablenets in the country. Following the acquistion ...

Netstream using Harmonic for IPTV headend
DigitalTVEurope.net
Swiss IPTV wholesaler Netstream is using Harmonic's encoding and transcoding products for its IPTV headend platform. Harmonic's Swiss distributor Adrenio installed Harmonic's Electra 8000 universal SD/HD MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC encoders, ProStream 1000 ...

TVNEXT takes TV to new devices
Rapid tv news
German IPTV service provider TVNEXT enables the ADSL customers of EWE TEL to access the telco's TV package on conventional TV sets and mobile devices in addition to the PC for the first time. The multi-screen and over-the-top (OTT) solution developed ...

Freeview-Branded TVs Coming In May
Gizmodo Australia
Freeview's second phase of EPG deployment involves a leaner but more feature rich EPG, and soon it won't require a separate set top box at all, but will be integrated with TVs from 'one of the largest television manufacturers' in May. 

Google Takes Another Experimental Step Toward Delivering TV
TIME
By Sam Gustin | @samgustin | February 23, 2012 | + Google, which was founded by two graduate students, has always made research a top priority. Now it appears that the company is turning a metropolitan area in the Midwest into its latest laboratory.

Pay-TV's Worst Nightmare is About to Come True
Trefis (subscription)
Watch out Comcast (Nasdaq:CMCSA), Time Warner (NYSE:TWX) and Dish Network (Nasdaq:DISH). It looks like Google (Nasdaq:GOOG) will soon be gunning for your customers as it takes it TV service to the next level. If you haven't heard of Google TV before, ...