Corpus Media Labs raising $20 m through PE
Hindu Business Line
... 3D, multi channel, streaming & mobility, he added. With the entry into hotel chains for its IPTV and digital signage solutions to Thai food network, Corpus, the Bangalore headquartered company is lining up products for the healthcare sector next ...

CenturyLink broadband, IPTV business up even as legacy wireline declines
FierceIPTV
CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) got a boost from its broadband and Prism TV IPTV services even as it reported a decline in profit for the second quarter as legacy wireline business continued to decline. The telco cited a revenue increase of 4.7 percent in the ...

 Magyar Telekom IPTV subs up 69%
Advanced Television
The Hungarian telco also saw continued success with its IPTV operations, both in Hungary and its other CEE markets – Macedonia and Montenegro. As of the end of Q2, the platform had 276344 subscribers, up 68.7 per cent from the same period last year ...

 Magyar Telekom sees IPTV success
DigitalTVEurope.net
The telco saw most growth within its IPTV business, with subscriber numbers increasing 68.7% to 276344. The number of DTH customers was up 9.1% to ...

Albis Technologies' SceneGate(TM) Micro II STB Enhances Viewing ...
Review seeker (press release)
... an innovative HD IPTV set-top box (STB) featuring enhanced graphical capabilities and supporting OpenGL-based user interfaces. The powerful and compact ...

IHS: stars begin to align for games on connected TVs
IPTV News
Worldwide consumer spending on video games on connected TVs will grow rapidly from US$ 88mn in 2012 to US$ 1.6bn in 2016, driven by a combination of ...

Magyar Telekom grows IPTV business
Broadband TV News
Magyar Telekom continues to enjoy success with its IPTV operations, both in Hungary and the two other CEE markets – Macedonia and Montenegro – they are present in. As of the end of Q2, the Hungarian platform had 276344 subscribers, or 68.7% more ...

Telekom increases IPTV subs number
Rapid tv news
Germany's national telco Deutsche Telekom has increased the number of subscribers to its IPTV platform Entertain in the first half of 2012. The offering counted ...

Deutsche Telekom adds 100k domestic TV subs in Q2
IPTV News
Europe-wide, Deutsche Telekom reports that its IPTV business again proved itself as a consistent growth driver, with the total number of IPTV customers increasing by around 8% over the first six months of this year. Total revenues across all operations ...

Vijay TV signs first carriage deal in France with Free
MediaMughals
Vijay TV is now available on Freebox TV, the IPTV platform of Free. This launch makes the popular Tamil channel's first IPTV carriage deal in France and also strengthens Free's current offering of Indian content. Vijay TV is a premium Tamil language ...

 The Big IPTV Network List: Where to Watch Videos Online
ReelSEO Online Video News
I started thinking that what I needed to do, aside from shining the spotlight on great shows, was to also shine a spotlight on the places where I cruise for my content. So I started assembling a big list of IPTV sites where you can watch just about ...

Albis Technologies' SceneGate(TM) Micro II STB Enhances Viewing Experience ...
Broadcast Newsroom
Albis Technologies today launched the SceneGate(TM) Micro II, an innovative HD IPTV set-top box (STB) featuring enhanced graphical capabilities and supporting OpenGL-based user interfaces. The powerful and compact SceneGate Micro II ensures a ...

IHS: stars begin to align for games on connected TVs
IPTV News
Worldwide consumer spending on video games on connected TVs will grow rapidly from US$ 88mn in 2012 to US$ 1.6bn in 2016, driven by a combination of the exploding adoption of Internet-enabled TV devices, the rising availability of free-to-access ...

Global Internet Protocol Television (iPTV) Industry
Sacramento Bee
The report profiles 130 companies including Key iPTV Carriers/Operators such as AT&T Inc., Belgacom, Bell Canada Enterprise Inc, BT Group plc, China Telecom Corporation Limited, Comcast Corporation, Deutsche Telekom AG, FastWeb TV, France ...

Is Googlerola ready to drop the rola part?
FierceIPTV
Jim Barthold, FierceIPTV I've been reading too many financial news releases lately, because I'm starting this Editor's Corner with a disclaimer. I once worked for Jerrold, which was a division of General Instrument Corp. which eventually was swallowed ...

NIA: TV Everywhere will conquer Netflix, other OTT competitors
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Cypriot Operator PrimeTel Chooses SmartLabs
MarketWatch (press release)
Currently, PrimeTel PLC offers traditional IPTV services and is now planning to promote DVB-T broadcasting with interactive services delivered over the Internet (OTT). Under this project, SmartLabs will deploy its SmartTUBE SDP Service Delivery ..

Swisscom TV adds 35% more subs in a year
IPTV News
Swiss telco Swisscom had reached 694000 subscribers for its IPTV service 'Swisscom TV' by the end of the first half of this year, up 35.5% from one year earlier, including 86000 new customers in the first half of this year alone. Demand remains strong ...

PrimeTel of Cyprus to unleash hybrid TV service
IPTV News
Cypriot telco PrimeTel, one of the main providers of managed IPTV services on the Mediterranean island republic, has revealed that it plans to launch a new hybrid television service which combines linear DTT channels with IP-delivered interactive elements.

Cypriot Operator PrimeTel Chooses SmartLabs
Sacramento Bee
Currently, PrimeTel PLC offers traditional IPTV services and is now planning to promote DVB-T broadcasting with interactive services delivered ...

Streaming To TV Gaining Ground
MediaPost Communications
Much like eReaders, which saw small but noticeable gains in penetration in the last three quarters of 2011, IPTV is following suit and market penetration is on the rise. As of February 2012, 10.4% of homes had an IPTV, compared to just 4.7% that same ...

IP transmission prices falling fast
Broadcast Engineering
There looks to be some good news for broadcasters and content distributors, regarding their operational budgets for delivering file-based programming. Prices for wholesale IP transmission service continue to go down throughout the world, while ...

Internet TV: the future of branded entertainment
Product Placement News
According to IPTV, more than 300 million internet-connected TVs will have been sold by 2015. This will reshape how brands use the TV for advertising and promotions. Branded entertainment apps and projects will be downloadable through TVs, making the ...

Parks: cord-switching to blame for cable's woes
IPTV News
While many in the cable TV industry are starting to believe that cord-cutting is not the threat it once appeared to be, US research firm Parks Associates warns that another threat is emerging which is just as dangerous: 'cord-switching'. Jim O'Neill ...

UIEvolution and HMS Partner to Bring Turnkey Solutions to Cruise Ships
Broadcast Newsroom
UIEvolution, Inc., a globally recognized design and innovation leader in connecting consumers to content with ground-breaking user experience solutions in IPTV, mobile, tablet and automotive, and HMS, a leader in entertainment system design in the ...

Web-capable televisions said on the rise
UPI.com
"[IPTV] has grown dramatically over the course of the last year," said Pat McDonough, senior vice president of insights analysis and policy for Nielsen. "People ...

British Lords: Drop terrestrial broadcast, adopt IPTV
FierceIPTV
The United Kingdom's House of Lords Communications Committee has proposed that broadcasting be moved away from terrestrial delivery and that IPTV be adopted as the primary means of distribution. The committee's report, Broadband for All--An ...

Google said to be preparing to sell off Motorola Home unit
FierceIPTV
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) might someday use Motorola IPTV boxes as part of its Google Fiber project, but the chances of those boxes being built by a Google-owned entity are becoming slimmer by the minute. "Multiple industry insiders and people in cable ...

 Samsung, Verizon form new smart TV content partnership
The Korea Herald
Some 120 million consumers subscribing to Verizon telecom services will be able to view such content without using set-top boxes, which are normally required to watch IPTV shows and movies. Lee Kyung-shik, vice president of visual display business at ...