Hawaiian Telcom Q4 results driven by strong IPTV gains
FierceTelecom
Hawaiian Telcom (Nasdaq: HCOM) may not be the largest IPTV provider, but its effort to increase its service footprint paid off in Q4 and drove up its growing consumer segment 4 percent to $35 million. The telco said the "revenue increase in its ...

StarHub launches new IPTV service
Rapid tv news
Singaporean provider StarHub is to launch a new IPTV service, StarHub TV on Fibre, on 18 March. An IPTV pay-TV service, StarHub TV on Fibre offers businesses access to HD content and more than three times as many TV channels as the existing digital ...

 Starhub launches new IPTV service for Singapore
IPTV News
Singaporean telco StarHub has confirmed plans to launch a new IPTV service called 'StarHub TV on Fibre' on March 18th, delivered over the country's Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network (NGNBN). The service will initially be available only to ...

Foxtel's Play: IPTV For Multiple Devices
Gizmodo Australia
There's simply mention of it “expanding” on the existing IPTV solutions. Equally, it's not clear exactly how many devices you'll be able to authorise for Foxtel Play playback. It'll also include access to Foxtel Go package for mobile TV viewing ...

Foxtel dives into IPTV space
AdNews
Foxtel boss Richard Freudenstein said the company still intends to reach 50% of Australians, and will be helped along by the launch of IPTV and subscription on-demand movie services. Freudenstein revealed at the ASTRA Conference today Foxtel will ...

Eyepartner Offers Customized IPTV Installation for Products and Services
MarketWatch (press release)
MARATHON, Fla., March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Eyepartner offers customized installation for a wide variety of its IPTV products and services, including its TikiLIVE HD broadcaster, white-label set-top boxes, and NetUP DVB to IP Gateway 4X.

BT chooses thePlatform as management basis for IPTV, YouView
Rapid tv news
As it embarks on an expansion of its TV activities through its YouView offering and BT Vision IPTV service, the UK's incumbent telco has upgraded its service infrastructure with a cloud-based video management platform. Specifically, BT has selected the ...

IPTV meets Big Data – predicting user behaviour to create attractive offerings
IPTV News
Big Data for IPTV can provide value to CSPs in at least two areas, which are related to user experience and quality of experience. First, CSPs can improve IPTV user experience by understanding subscriber preferences and proactively recommending content ...

Bally Technologies selects Visionary Solutions encoders
Broadcast Engineering
Bally Technologies has deployed Visionary Solutions' AVN422, AVN441 and AVN443 encoders for customized delivery of IPTV content for multiple casinos and hotels around the world. Leveraging the flexibility of Visionary Solutions' AVN encoding platform, ...

Massive Interactive Provides Boost to US IPTV Industry
International Business Times (press release)
NEW YORK, March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Massive Interactive, an international leader in video on demand (VOD), over-the-top TV (OTT TV) and IPTV software and services today announced that it has expanded its worldwide footprint to North America.

Massive Interactive targets North America in its quest to rule IPTV
VentureBeat
How is a startup that's been around for 16 years going to reinvent the IPTV market in North America? For Massive Interactive, it's by offering content owners a simple way to push media across a variety of devices with a single app. The Sydney ...

Foxtel Launches Use Anywhere, Contract-Free IPTV Service
Lifehacker Australia
Foxtel has launched a new internet delivered TV service dubbed Foxtel Play in a bid to make further inroads into the lucrative IPTV market. The new service will be available for a range of TVs, consoles and mobile devices, including Android handsets.

IPTV destroying video store business in Australia
FierceIPTV
Australians are stepping up to IPTV and away from traditional video stores in a trend that will accelerate in 2013 thanks to "far more aggressive bundling strategies from telcos," according to Scott Lorsen, CEO of IPTV provider FetchTV. Lorsen, in a ...

Cartoon Network, Pogo launch on Sri Lankan IPTV platform Peo TV
Indiantelevision.com
MUMBAI: Sri Lankan IPTV provider Peo TV has inked a carriage deal with Cartoon Network and Pogo. The channels bring series such as 'Ben 10' and 'Scooby Doo' to even more viewers and fans on the island nation. Both channels are available in English.

China Telecom Kicks Off 2013 IPTV STB Tender
Marbridge Consulting
China Telecom will purchase 127,000 smart terminals, up from 74,000 IPTV-enabled smart STBs in 2012. More than 20 manufacturers are participating in the tender, including IPTV manufacturers such as ZTE (0763.HK; 000063.SZ), Huawei, Fiberhome ...

Teleste to focus on OTT, stop developing own IPTV Middleware
Telecompaper (subscription)
Network equipment maker Teleste plans to discontinue the development of its own IPTV Middleware offering and will instead seek partnerships in this area. The company said that to boost its competitiveness for multiscreen systems, it will focus on OTT ...

TiVo introduces TiVo Mini for whole-home viewing space
FierceIPTV
Recognizing that its customers want more than single-device connectivity, TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO) has entered into the whole-home viewing space with the TiVo ...

Quickflix boss: We're through the funding crisis and ready to grow
MuMbrella
... told Mumbrella that last week's injection of $1.7m from the Crede Capital Group will give the company the cash to capitalise on the growth on IPTV in Australia.

TRAI extends dates for comments on cross media ownership to Apr 8
exchange4media.com
“Also, more and more broadcasting companies owning television channels are venturing into distribution segments, that is, cable TV, DTH, HITS, IPTV, etc., ...

Compass Trend: IPTV vs OTT
Daoofstrategy.blogspot.com
For the last few years, IPTV has been the hot technology.  It has slowly diminished the domination of cable in the marketplace that Comcast was forced to start their own IPTV service. 

Verimatrix Chosen to Demonstrate Award-Winning Multi-Screen ...
Marketwire (press release)-10 hours ago
... ViewRight® solutions enable cable, satellite, terrestrial, IPTV and OTT operators to cost-effectively extend their networks and enable new business models.

VOO and SeaChange Win Cable Europe's 2013 Innovation Award
FierceCable
Adrenalin is shortlisted for a 2013 TV Connect Industry Award in the category of Best Service Delivery Platform for IPTV & OTT. Nitro is shortlisted in the award ...

SeaChange International to Issue Fiscal 2013 Fourth Quarter and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... transformative multi-screen video services through an open, cloud-based, intelligent software platform trusted by cable, IPTV and mobile operators globally.

Teleste drops IPTV middleware
Broadband TV News
Teleste has said it will discontinue its IPTV middleware offer, opting instead for partnerships with other manufacturers in the area. The product was launched in 2012 as part of the Ubique product line, which will continue as a platform for over-the ...

Algar Telecom to launch IPTV offer in H2
Telecompaper (subscription)
Brazilian regional operator Algar Telecom will complete this month its pilot project with three ISPs on the provision of pay-TV services, reports local portal Teletime. Algar Telecom has been distributing the IPTV service to Bitcom in Caxias do Sul ...

TV Nova channels secure DTH carriage
Broadband TV News
They are being distributed via Astra at 23.5 degrees East, as well as terrestrially, by cable and IPTV. Commenting on the development, Jan Andrusko, CEO of ...

Japan's KDDI expands premium VOD to Smart TVs and iPads
IPTV News
Japanese telco KDDI has expanded its premium video-on-demand service 'Video Pass' to iOS devices and Smart TVs, bringing it within reach of its entire ...