MRG: Global Pay-TV Subs Hit 800 Million
World Screen
The total number of pay-TV subscribers—cable, satellite and IPTV—now tops 800 million households. MRG reports that in the cable segment, the majority of global subscriber growth was in Asia, driven in particular by China, India and Vietnam. Other ...

iBAHN installs guest room entertainment technology and WiFi in ...
Breaking Travel News (press release)
That is why we selected iBAHN to install IPTV that will deliver memorable guest room entertainment and an advanced WiFi system that will keep up with the ...

Motama Highlights OTT, IPTV Products
Light Reading
SAARBRUCKEN, Germany -- At this year's ANGA COM event in Cologne, Motama will present the latest extensions of its product portfolio. Motama's servers offer a one-stop turn-key solution providing end-to-end delivery, for both Internet/Over-the-Top ...

Why some Telcos are going OTT only
Broadcast Engineering (blog)
One factor was Ireland's unique stance of including OTT linear TV within its broadcasting act in 2009. Most countries' broadcasting legislation predated OTT or sometimes even IPTV and including it makes deployment for full blown linear services much ... 

 Former DJ Hero devs exploring IPTV for multi-platform project
Joystiq
DJ Hero developer FreeStyle Games is hiring a producer for IPTV gaming, according to a job listing on LinkedIn. The position will lead "the development of new multi-platform games with specific emphasis on online infrastructure-heavy video applications ...

Tech Analyst Jeff Kagan on AT&T Having Fastest 4G LTE Wireless ...
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
He follows wireless, telecom, Internet, cable television and IPTV. He also follows the wide consumer electronics and technology space. Reporters: Jeff Kagan ...

New metadata enables legal content sharing across IPTV platforms
Broadcast Engineering
At last, IPTV is getting a standard framework for interoperability of rights information as a result of cooperation between the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and ITU. The two bodies have come up with a new metadata standard to ensure ...

Tulix Systems Launches the Caribcast TV for Android and Google TV
PR.com (press release)
Atlanta, GA, May 24, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Tulix Systems, the innovation leader in streaming solutions, CDN services and IPTV CRM applications, today announced the company has released the Google TV application for its long stand client, Caribcast TV.

Worldwide IPTV subs up 36% in 2012
IPTV News
Demand for IPTV services picked up “significantly” last year, according to US research firm MRG, which estimates that the number of IPTV subscribers worldwide rose 36% in 2012 to reach 77mn, with strong growth in all geographic regions. Overall, the ...

Vubiquity: “We are so much more than the sum of our parts”
IPTV News
Doug Sylvester, president of US firm Vubiquity, a provider of multi-platform video services, talks to us about the company's recent name change, its plans for 2013, and what he sees as the most exciting area of potential growth for IP video delivery ...

Romania sees TV service provider growth, digital progress
DigitalTVEurope.net
Romanian TV retransmission services including cable, satellite and IPTV systems served over six million homes, representing total household penetration of over 85%, at the end of 2012, according to a survey by regulator ANCOM. Cable networks grew 6.4% ...

UTStarcom Reports Unaudited First Quarter 2013 Financial Results
Wall Street Journal (press release)
As previously announced, the Company closed the divestiture of its IPTV business in August 2012, but has not yet met the requirements for reporting those results as discontinued operations because of the Company's continuing involvement. Therefore, to ...

UTStarcom posts $5mn loss for Q1
IPTV News
Beijing-based telecoms equipment vendor UTStarcom has posted a US$ 5mn net loss for the first quarter of this year, but expects profitability to improve once it can count the IPTV business it sold last August as discontinued operations. Total revenues ...

Portland Telco delivers local DTV stations via IPTV to Roku box
Broadcast Engineering
In concept it's really not different than our existing IPTV service. It's using the same headend equipment, we've just added an Elemental encoder to convert signals to HLS. So, my dilemma today is getting broadcasters to understand what a Roku box ...

HyppTV goes for bigger market share
The Star Online
TELEKOM Malaysia Bhd's (TM) Internet protocol television (IPTV) service HyppTV, which is fast becoming more significant part of the group, is upping the ante to grab a larger market share. Executive vice-president of new media Jeremy Kung tells ...

Canby Telecom using Roku and Elemental to stream local TV channels
FierceCable
While Canby markets a traditional pay TV service through an IPTV-based platform, the Elemental – Roku product could help it sell video programming to subscribers who only take its high-speed Internet service. Canby is charging $14.95 monthly for the ...

All Care Health Center unveils new learning center placed by Iowa Public ...
SW Iowa News
Cecelia Creighton (left), executive director of All Care Health Center, and Trista Peitzman, PK-12 coordinator for Iowa Public Television, snuggle up to Elmo during an open house celebrating the clinic's new reading center, which IPTV helped sponsor.

Verizon FiOS IPTV Media Server Slated For Fall Launch
Zatz Not Funny
Back at CES, we admired Verizon's upcoming six-tuner IPTV Media Server (VMS) and thin clients. And while it appears “soon” is off the table, the company has put a stake in the ground at NAB for a September launch. FiOS TV has long offered a whole-home ...

Lithuania's TEO unbundles GALA TV packages
IPTV News
Lithuanian TV viewers can now create their own channel packages for the IPTV service operated by incumbent telco TEO, which is charging subscribers LTL 6 (US$ 2) per month to build a personalised bundle of six channels out of a choice of 27, ranging ...

Telekom Malaysia takes HyppTV nationwide
IPTV News
Malaysia's biggest telco will shortly be making its IPTV service 'HyppTV' available nationwide and outside the home with the launch of two new services – HyppTV Over Broadband and HyppTV Everywhere. The two new services are in the final stages of ..

Research and Markets: Worldwide pay-TV Subscribers: Global Pay-TV ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
This report provides subscriber data for the top 60 cable, top 100 satellite (DTH), and top 140 IPTV pay-TV operators. In addition, the report provides pay-TV subscriber totals by country, geographic region, and by platform. Global pay-TV subscriber ...

Astro and Maxis to deliver new-age TV service in Klang Valley
The Star Online
IPTV is a system in which TV services are delivered using the Internet protocol suite instead of traditional terrestrial, satellite signal and cable TV formats, resulting in a superior entertainment experience for content providers, advertisers and ...

TM to offer HyppTV service to Streamyx users in Q3
Telecompaper (subscription)
Telekom Malaysia (TM) is aiming to enlarge the subscriber base of its IPTV service, HyppTV, by opening the service to about 1.6 million Streamyx internet broadband subscribers nationwide in the third quarter of this year, writes Bernama. Currently ...

Ericsson's Nandlall: Mediaroom acquisition positions us as a video space player
FierceIPTV
For years Ericsson (Nasdaq: ERIC) has straddled wireless and wireline, with wireless generally dominating perception, if not reality. Even the recent acquisition of Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Mediaroom IPTV platform left some questioning how Ericsson ...

Telco makes Elemental move to power Roku IPTV services
Rapid tv news
The eight local live broadcast channels are packaged into an authenticated channel on the Roku platform called EZVideo which is then delivered by the Oregon-based IPTV provider over a secure broadband connection to subscribers who have the player.

Polsat partners with Monolith Films on VOD exclusives
DigitalTVEurope.net
Polish pay TV operator Cyfrowy Polsat has partnered with local film distributor and producer Monolith Films to debut a string of titles on its VOD and IPTV service before their DVD release. The deal covers eight movie titles that will be made available ...

Universal Channel to launch in Germany
Rapid tv news
The pay-TV channel, which will screen its content both dubbed in German and in the original language, will launch on 5 September 2013 in standard definition and HD on Deutsche Telekom's IPTV platform Entertain, and in HD on Sky Deutschland as part of ...

Legal multimedia content access simplified for consumers; New ITU-IEC ...
Watch List News (press release)
Recommendation ITU-T H.751 “Metadata for rights information interoperability in IPTV services” is technically aligned with IEC 62698 Multimedia home server systems – Rights information interoperability for IPTV. The parallel texts are the first product ...

Shanghai Telecom to release Android IPTV set-top box
Telecompaper (subscription)
China Telecom's Shanghai branch is testing an Android set-top box that combines IPTV, internet video, and internet applications. The Mohe's (Magic Box') IPTV service is a joint service by Shanghai Telecom and Hangzhou-based cable DTV and IPTV ...