Imagine Nabs Mediaroom 2.0 Qualification
Light Reading
Imagine Communications, a leading innovator in advanced digital video solutions, today announced that its award-winning ICE® Video Platform IPTV transcoder is one of the few transcoding solutions to be qualified for both 1.0 and 2.0 versions of ...

Quebecor steps up with illico TV in battle with BCE
Financial Post
This should enable Quebecor to pre-emptively protect customers from Bell's competing IPTV solution, according to Greg MacDonald, analyst at Macquarie Capital Markets. “Importantly, the service at a minimum matches IPTV's whole-home PVR and web-based ...

Foxtel Responds To News Ltd Scandal
SmartHouse
By David Richards | Thursday | 29/03/2012 Foxtel which is 25% owned by News Ltd has finally responded to the scandal surrounding the business practices at some UK divisions of Rupert Murdoch's News Group who have been accused of engaging with a secret ...

Global IPTV Subscription Revenues Expected to Increase Rapidly
Vision 2 Mobile
Informa Telecoms & Media estimates that 76.5 million global households will take a pay IPTV subscription as their primary TV service by 2016, as opposed to the current 34.3 million, according to a report by Rapid TV News. This increase in subscriptions ...

Global IPTV subs, revs set to double over five years
Rapid tv news
The IPTV industry is set for rapid growth over the next five years, doubling in size to be worth $12 billion, according to new research from Informa Telecoms & Media. The analyst's data showed that by the end of 2011 there were 34.3 million global ...

Acentic Provides SMART IPTV to Future Inns Cardiff Bay Delivering Smart ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By PR Newswire Acentic, a leading supplier of broadband systems and digital interactive TV (iTV) for the hotel industry, announced today that it is providing its latest SMART IPTV solution combined with Horizon high-speed internet connectivity to ...

Spiegel chooses Exterity's IPTV technology for TV distribution in new ...
IT News Online
27th March 2012, Hamburg, Germany: Exterity, the leading provider of IPTV communication solutions, was selected to equip Spiegel's new production facility in Hamburg with their market leading IP-based TV and video distribution technology.

Miranda Launches New Channel for STN in Just Three Days
MarketWatch (press release)
Miranda Technologies Inc. (TOR:CA:MT) , a worldwide provider of infrastructure, playout and monitoring systems for the television broadcast, cable, satellite and IPTV industry successfully added a new channel to a leading broadcaster's service only ...

Sunrise Telecom Launches packetWORX IPTV Test and Monitoring Solution
MarketWatch (press release)
The Sunrise Telecom packetWORX Suite, which includes the server-based packetWORX IPTV Monitoring system and packetWORX IPTV Analyzer application for premise troubleshooting, enables system operators to quickly and easily install, maintain and ...

PTCL: "All major IPTV operators are moving to an OTT-enabled environment"
IPTV News
We speak to Ather Baig, Senior Engineer of IP networks for Pakistani telco PTCL, about rivalry with cable operators, the challenges which developing nations face in ensuring optimal TV services, and how he believes IPTV can be successfully monetised in ...

News Corp Hack IPTV Rival To Death?
SmartHouse
By Oonagh Reidy | Wednesday | 28/03/2012 They re at it again. Rupert Murdoch's already disgraced media giant is plunged into a fresh hacking scandal, accused of killing rival TV Co. This time it stands accused of destroying a rival to its Sky TV empire ...

Foxtel Austar Deal Put On Hold As Samsung Confirms Distribution Deal
SmartHouse
During the last month several organisations including IPTV competitors have told the ACCC that the merger of regional TV Company Austar and Foxtel is "extremely dangerous" as it will restrict competition for IPTV operators. Both Foxtel and Telstra who ...

Set-top box future remains present concern
FierceCable
Following last week's IPTV World Forum in London, the Financial Times offered an analysis of the evolving (or is it still dying?) set-top box market, ...
 

IP&TV World Forum Successfully Addresses Converging TV Market
MarketWatch (press release)
For further information, visit the IP&TV World Forum 2012 website at www.iptv-forum.com , call +44 (0)20 7017 5506 or follow IP&TV World Forum on Twitter at http://twitter.com/iptvworldseries using hashtag #iptvwf. About IP&TV World Forum Part of the ...

Digital Signage Connection (press release)
As part of its modernization, VfB Stuttgart is now using a combination of IPTV and digital signage as a flexible information system. More than 105 LCD flatscreens have been installed in the stadium's 21 business boxes, and in event boxes, the Fan-Treff ...

Row 44 Milestone -- 250th Plane Installed
MarketWatch (press release)
This announcement comes just prior to Row 44's debut of several new broadband entertainment services offered by its airline partners - services including live streaming IPTV, on-demand movies and television episodes, and bookable destination services ...

iiNet criticises proposed Foxtel takeover of Austar
SmartCompany.com.au
IPTV and internet service provider iiNet has heavily criticised Foxtel's proposed takeover of Austar in a submission to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). According to Delimiter, iiNet has raised concerns about the proposed ... 

Connected TVs to hold 17% of OTT video market by 2016
IPTV News
"Managed network players - cable and IPTV providers, for instance – are holding one of the key drivers for the Connected TV market development. They can continue their strategy of service distribution or open massively their networks to over-the-top ...

 

Broadcom targets fiber communication market by acquiring BroadLight
EE Herald 
"The need for increased bandwidth for IPTV services, HDTV broadcasting and high speed Internet access are driving momentum for deploying fiber networks," ...

TiVo fires back at Motorola in patent spat
Communications, Engineering & Design Magazine 
... company decided to aggressively enforce its DVR patents, starting with the US satellite broadcasters and moving on to the two biggest US IPTV companies.
 

UNI President Defends Massive Budget Cuts on IPTV
‎WOI
By Katie Eastman The president of University of Northern Iowa, Ben Allen, defended massive cuts to academic programs Friday night in an interview on Iowa ...
 

VfB Stuttgart successfully launches IPTV and Digital Signage for the new ...
openPR (press release)
As part of its modernisation, VfB Stuttgart is now using a combination of IPTV and digital signage as a flexible information system. Over 105 LCD flatscreens have been installed in the 21 business boxes, in the event boxes, in the Fan-Treff meeting ...

Broadcom Buys BroadLight
‎Daily Markets (blog)
The ubiquitous demand for increased bandwidth for IPTV services, HDTV broadcasting and high speed Internet access continues to drive momentum for deploying ...

IPTV revolution evolves as televisions get connected
Informitv
When this conference first began eight years ago, IPTV was still in its infancy. Telecommunications providers were seeking to use internet protocols to ...

KIT Digital: "Regular Irregularity" Exposes Mis-priced Exploding Vol
‎Forex Pros
... Internet Protocol (IP)-based video assets across the browser, mobile device and Internet protocol television (IPTV) set-top box-enabled television set.

My TF1 to go HbbTV
Rapid tv news
In the HbbTV standard, the broadcaster is particularly careful to add DRM technologies so as to protect programmes available in VOD. After IPTV, tablets and ...

Telstra's T-Box takes home IPTV World Forum award
iTWire
briefly Telstra has celebrated the winning of an award at the prestigious IPTV World Forum for its home entertainment device, the T-Box.

Telstra's T-Box takes home IPTV World Forum award
iTech Report
briefly Telstra has celebrated the winning of an award at the prestigious IPTV World Forum for its home entertainment device, the T-Box.