IPTV booming, but not here
MyBroadband
Point Topic recently released their IPTV report for the fourth quarter of 2010, revealing that the number of IPTV subscribers worldwide increased by over a third during 2010. At year end the total number of IPTV subscribers stood at almost 45.4 million ...

YouView names BSkyB as a content partner
StrategyEye
The working relationship is a surprise to some after BSkyB submitted a complaint to Ofcom in October over the BBC's involvement in YouView and concerns that the IPTV venture would stifle innovation and competition in the TV market. ...

Astra's big challenge in Germany
Broadband TV News
IPTV is on the increase, up from 0.6 million to 0.9 million. In terms of digitalisation, 82% of all DTH homes in the country are now digital, both DTT and IPTV are 100% digital while cable lags behind with just 38% of all cabled homes now digital. ...

Etisalat Deploys Verimatrix for IPTV in UAE
Converge Network Digest
Etisalat has deployed the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) for IPTV solution on it's IP-based pay-TV service in the United Arab Emirates. The service will be delivered over an FTTH network. Verimatrix is also a major partner in the ...

LGS Brings Video Technology to the US Military
Genetic Engineering News
LGS engineered, furnished, installed, and tested an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) solution serving a dozen Air Force installations across the United States. The solution was designed to meet the Air Combat Command (ACC) need for responsive, ...

Mauritius: Orange Mauritius Turns IPTV And Fibre-to-the-Cabinet Into 'A Driver ...
AllAfrica.com
To grow user use on the fibre network, Orange Mauritius has a branded IPTV service called MyT which was launched in 2006 with 400 VOD titles and 18 TV channels. This has been built up over time as it slowly cracked the content rights obstacles: in 2010 ...

Astra reaches 135 million TV homes in 35 countries
Broadband TV News
After HD television, IPTV and Connected TVs are growing the market, said Ferdinand Kayser, president and CEO, Astra. This is divided as follows: 58 million DTH homes, 68 million cable homes and 10 million IPTV homes. At the moment, 69% of all homes in ...

Anevia IPTV solution selected by Europa Network
Marketwire (press release)
VALENCIA, SPAIN--(Marketwire - March 24, 2011) - Anevia, a leader in video streaming solutions and service infrastructure for live TV and video on demand (VOD), today announced that Europa Network, an Internet and IPTV services provider in Valencia, ...

European IPTV growth slows
Broadband TV News
IPTV WORLD FORUM – LONDON. The number of subscribers to IPTV grew by a record 34.6% during 2010, but Europe began to falter amid signs of a maturing market. Figures complied by Point Topic on behalf of the Broadband Forum showed that while Europe held ...

Research and Markets: Australia Digital TV - Interactive TV, IPTV, and EPGs ...
Business Wire (press release)
Interactive TV has struggled to gain widespread popularity in Australia, while IPTV services have been launched by a number of Internet service providers and some TV manufacturers including Samsung, Sony and LG. However, concerns still remain about the ...

Skytide Announces Support for Adaptive Bitrate Protocols
Marketwire (press release)
"Soaring online video traffic is placing enormous burdens on telecom service providers, many of whom are launching their own CDN and IPTV initiatives in response. Version 2.2 will enable telcos to manage these new services with even greater precision ...

BSNL Launches FTTH Service
Techtree.com
This will allow consumers with high-end demands such as HD TV, 3D TV, VoD, IPTV, etc, the integrated service of Internet, phone line and IPTV under one connection. High quality content will be available through this connection at speeds up to 100Mbps, ...

Etisalat gears for secure future-rich IPTV network
Rapid tv news
The new network will reach millions of homes and businesses in the UAE by 2011 and Etisalat will offer advanced TV services under the brand of eLife, its flagship brand for fibre-optic based residential services that includes voice, broadband and IPTV. ...

EDUCATION : Successful TV Test at Off-campus Student Apartments in Michigan ...
4-traders (press release)
Students handing out grades this past semester gave Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) an A-plus. Residents of The Courtyards, a collegiate housing community near the University of Michigan (UM) in Ann Arbor, were enlisted to beta-test the new IPTV ...

Saudi Telecom Selects JDSU for IPTV Monitoring Solution

The solution will give STC the visibility to proactively detect and resolve IPTV service and network quality issues which will help speed repair times and ensure higher Quality-of-Service (QoS) for subscribers. The JDSU IPTV solution was also selected ...

Global IPTV Subscriptions Up 35% in 2010
Vision 2 Mobile
IPTV WORLD — Numbers announced today by the Broadband Forum and prepared by Point Topic show IPTV subscriptions around the world were up 34.6 percent last year. The Forum says 2010 was also a landmark year for broadband subscriptions; after hitting a ...

Sky: "Too early to say if we'll offer YouView service"
TechRadar UK
By Patrick Goss YouView is the IPTV collaboration between some of UK broadcasting and communication's biggest names including Channel 4, Five, ITV, Arqiva, BT and Talk Talk – as well as, controversially, the BBC. After making its opposition to the ...

Motorola to acquire Dreampark, the IPTV provider
High Tech Lounge
On March 23, 2011, Motorola declared that it has moved to purchase Dreampark, the IPTV software developer. Even if financial details have not yet been revealed, the deal is expected to conclude sometime this spring. Dreampark, the Swedish company, ...

 AT&T U-verse TV Wins IP&TV Industry Award for Best Multiscreen TV Service
PR Newswire (press release)
The IP&TV Industry Awards honor service providers for their innovation, excellence and achievement in the IPTV industry. IP&TV Industry Award winners were announced Wednesday, March 23, at the 2011 IP&TV World Forum in London. ...

Global IPTV subscribers predicted to hit 50m this year
Total Telecom
By Mary Lennighan, Total Telecom Europe still leads world in terms of IPTV connections, but Asia seen overtaking it in 2011, according to Broadband Forum. The number of IPTV subscribers worldwide rocketed in 2010, with the strongest growth rates coming ...

Motorola Acquires IPTV Software Company Dreampark
TechCrunch
Motorola Mobility has acquired Dreampark, a Swedish IPTV software provider. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Motorola says it expects the acquisition to close in the second quarter. Dreampark is the company behind Dreamgallery, a software suite ...

Online video to capture twice as many viewers as IPTV by 2015
IPTV News
Worldwide viewers of over-the-top (OTT) television services delivered to the living room TV will outnumber IPTV services worldwide by 2013, and will reach 380mn by 2015 - more than double the number of IPTV subscribers - according to a new report from ... 

Etisalat Gears for Future-Rich IPTV, Partners With Verimatrix for VCAS(TM ...
EIN News (press release)
IP&TV World Forum 2011 -- Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, today announced the successful deployment of the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) for IPTV ...

Verimatrix in Pact with Vestel to Create Versatile Connected TV
TMC Net
“The combination of advanced TV features and integrated IP security make a compelling value proposition to enable hospitality, IPTV (News - Alert) and OTT service delivery,” said Hakan Kutlu, deputy director of marketing at Vestel Foreign Trade, ...

OTT TV to overtake IPTV viewing
Broadband TV News
Although there were only 27 million OTT TV viewers globally at the end of last year, their number is expected to exceed those watching IPTV services by 2013. Indeed, Informa Media & Telecoms predicts that by 2015 some 380 million people globally will ...

Report: OTTTV viewers to outnumber IPTV viewers in 2013
DTG
OTT-to-the-TV viewers will outnumber IPTV viewers by 2013, according to recent research from Informa Telecoms & Media. Informa forecasts that by 2015, 380 million people globally will view online video via connected devices such as TVs, games consoles ...

ASTRA Increases Reach over All Platforms
Business Wire (press release)
In the growing segment of IPTV – television delivered in Internet Protocol (IP) format over telecommunication networks – SES ASTRA also reaches a leading position as a technical provider. The newest market research shows that ASTRA satellites are ...

 

Motorola Mobility to buy Swedish IPTV vendor Dreampark
Network World
By Mikael Ricknäs, IDG News Service Motorola Mobility has signed an agreement to acquire Dreampark, a Swedish IPTV software provider, the company said on Wednesday. The acquisition is expected to close before the second quarter of 2011. ... 

Motorola to buy IPTV software provider Dreampark
Hindu Business Line
PTI Motorola Mobility Inc has said that it will acquire Dreampark, an IPTV software provider for an undisclosed amount. “We have signed a definitive agreement to acquire Dreampark, a leading IPTV software provider based in Sweden,” Motorola Mobility ...

Study: OTT to climb over-the-top of IPTV by 2013
FierceCable
Although the dividing point appears to be wafer thin, research from Informa Telecoms & Media claims that the number of OTT-to-the-TV viewers will surpass IPTV viewers by 2013 and that by 2015 380 million people globally will view online video via ...

The Linux Foundation Announces MeeGo TV Working Group
Marketwire (press release)
LONDON--(Marketwire - March 22, 2011) - IPTV World Forum - The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the formation of the MeeGo™ Smart TV Working Group. MeeGo is an open source ...

Of Interest To SatBroadcasting™ Professionals...
SatNews Publishers
Bridge Technologies is launching the VB330, the latest addition to its VideoBRIDGE series of digital media probes, at the IPTV World Forum in London. The VB330 offers the highest performance to form-factor ratio available in a monitoring and analysis ...

Digistar Expects IPTV Service To Hospitals To Garner RM2 Million
Bernama
KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 (Bernama) -- Digistar Corporation Bhd expects its Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) system service to hospitals to garner RM2 million per month by end of next year as demand for the network system is increasing. ...

Buoyant Netgem reveals IPTV 2.0 early adopters
Rapid tv news
On the back of announcing healthy consolidated 2010 profits, Netgem has unveiled the first customers for its so-called IPTV 2.0 solution. For 2010, Netgem's revenues grew by 3% to €134.9 million with operating profit of €30.8 million and a consolidated ...

 

 

Reportlinker Adds Global Internet Protocol Television (iPTV) Industry
SYS-CON Media (press release)
This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Internet Protocol Television (iPTV) in Millions of Subscribers and US$ Million. The market is also analyzed by the following Systems: Set-Top Boxes, Access Systems, Video Headend Equipment, Video-on-Demand ...

 

Seamless movie watching on all devices 'is key to IPTV'
TechRadar UK
By Marc Chacksfield The IP&TV World Forum 2011 kicked off in London today, with the show going through something of a name change (note the ampersand) - a small but significant change that points to how IPTV is currently being perceived by ...

 

Mariner xVu™ 4 Adds AccountVu Module to Mediaroom Edition
SYS-CON Media (press release)
IPTV World Forum--Mariner, a leading provider of innovative IP video solutions and technologies, today announced the addition of AccountVu to the latest release of its innovative IPTV service monitoring solution, offered as part of xVu™ 4. ...

 

Harmonic Headend Powers IPTV Service for Kosovo Telco PTK
Broadcast Newsroom
Harmonic and Slovenian interactive TV technology provider BeeSmart worked together to provide the complete end-to-end IPTV platform for PTK's multichannel television service, with BeeSmart providing the interactive TV middleware platform, ...

 

: Research and Markets: USA - Digital TV Market - Broadcasting and IPTV
Techzone360
The Big Three are expected to continue to lose market share to the DBS and cable providers as well as, incrementally, to the telcos' IPTV networks. The US now has one of the highest rates of pay TV penetration in the world. By 2010 there were over 100 ...

Bakken Investor Conference in Minot, North Dakota Announced

DTS is working with IPTV content providers such as Orange France, Free and Roxio Now/Sonic Solutions to integrate DTS surround sound technologies into its latest IPTV services, as well as supporting industry standards in the connected entertainment ...

Business Wire (press release)
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Business Wire will be posting exhibitor news releases and electronic press materials on a dedicated Online Media Center for the IPTV World Forum 2011. Media may contact the Business Wire Event Services Group at ...

SoftAtHome and Vestel Launch First Connected TV for IPTV Operators Worldwide
Business Wire (press release)
With the joint solutions and for the first time, IPTV operators worldwide can also offer premium IPTV services including Live TV, PVR and VoD over a Connected TV. Operators are no longer required to deploy a Set Top Box (STB) and can thus simplify the ...

Guangzhou Digital Media Group Selects Entropic Communications Access ...
TheStreet.com (press release)
By GlobeNewswire 03/22/11 - 08:00 PM EDT David Zhu, CEO of ShenZhen JetNet, the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) responsible for deploying the Entropic EoC solution added, "Entropic's EoC technology is a great fit for Chinese cable operators, ...

DTS Announces HD Audio Solution for IP Delivery
TMC Net
At present, DTS is associating with IPTV content providers such as Orange France, Free and Roxio (News - Alert) Now/Sonic Solutions to integrate DTS surround sound technologies into its latest IPTV services. The company is also trying initiatives to ...