IP&TV World Forum, Day 3: Multiscreen Mania
TechNewsWorld
Are IPTV providers going to spend the money on the box to match consumer expectations -- and if not, who will? A continuing theme here is who's paying for what? A quality-of-service blame game we've historically seen at the ISP level doesn't look like ...

Football rules punt Oz IPTV into touch
Register
By Simon Sharwood, APAC Editor • Get more from this author Australia's nacent IPTV industry won't be able to win business with the entertainment industry's time honoured practice of paying outrageous prices for exclusive rights to broadcast live sport, ...

iiNet: Foxtel + Austar Will Kill IPTV
SmartHouse
By Oonagh Reidy | Friday | 23/03/2012 That's according to iiNet regulatory chief who is fearing the $2bn merger between Foxtel and Austar will spell the death knell for IPTV. In a submission to the competition watchdog, the ACCC, Steve Dalby said his ...

IPTV television personality visits the Scott County Library System
Quad-Cities Online
Today is Friday, March 23, the 83rd day of 2012. There are 283 days left in the year. 1862 -- 150 years ago: George Mixter has declined to be member of the board of education. He writes "I stated to Mr. Harper as soon as I saw his name announced that I ...

New Country Cutovers Pushed 2011 Broadband Growth
Communications Technology
Broadband and IPTV growth spiked to a high in 2011, with rates higher than at any time in the last five years, according to year-end figures published by the Broadband Forum, a nonprofit industry organization focused on engineering smarter and faster ...

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 Public Television's Iowa Press. "We had to take action to do two things," Allen said.

UKTV Signs Its First Ever IPTV Deal With BT Vision
HDTV Test
By Jonathan Sutton • Friday, 23 March 2012, 4:21 pm GMT UKTV, Britain's leading branded multichannel broadcaster, announced this week that it has signed its first ever IPTV (internet protocol television) deal. This comes in the form of a three-year ...

World-class Winners Announced at IP&TV Industry Awards
MarketWatch (press release)
Now in its sixth year, the awards encompass the combined reach of the IP delivered TV community including IPTV, OTT, Connected TV and Hybrid TV. This year Telstra, Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei and BT Vision have been counted amongst the winners at the ...

EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
“High OPEX is a pressing issue for IPTV providers in today's market. This award recognizes Mariner's continuing focus on bringing solutions to the persistent challenges to TV profitability.” Mariner's new products, MyVu and FieldVu, focus on improving ...

iiNet says Foxtel with Austar will kill nascent IPTV industry
iTWire
iiNet - a reseller of the Fetch TV IPTV service - has come out swinging against Foxtel's latest attempt to get the ACCC to OK its plans to acquire Foxtel. The ACCC has been deliberating the possible competition impacts of the proposed $2b deal since it ...

Foxtel IPTV undertaking just scraps: iiNet
ZDNet Australia
Internet service provider (ISP) iiNet has rejected Foxtel's pledge to open access to some of its content to its IPTV competitors as part of Foxtel's $2.5 billion bid to buy Austar, stating that the undertaking won't actually offer the content that ...

Broadcast Newsroom
LONDON, March 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Broadband and IPTV growth spiked to a high in 2011 with rates higher than at any time in the last five years, according to year-end figures published by the Broadband Forum. Overall, broadband growth is ...

Mariner Wins Prestigious IPTV World Series Award
MarketWatch (press release)
SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick, Mar 22, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Mariner today announced that its xVu™ platform received an IPTV World Series Award in the category of “Best Quality Improvement Solution.” Mariner's new products, MyVu and FieldVu, ...

Cubic and Vooz positive on IPTV; Buddy more cautious
TeleGeography
Supersak na Nakhonphanom, the CEO of IPTV service provider Cubic Associates Group (Thailand), claims that the local IPTV market is expected to more-than double in size this year to THB3 billion (USD97 million), with continued 'rapid' growth over the ...

 Clover's Week: All that's new in IPTV
Broadband TV News
By Julian Clover In the week that IPTV World Forum became TV Connect, IP had much to say, writes Julian Clover. It turns out that I've attended the last IPTV World Fourm. As of next year the bustling event (London Olympia, March 20-22) will be known as ...

UKTV's first IPTV deal with BT Vision
MediaTel Newsline
Multichannel broadcaster, UKTV, has defined its first ever IPTV deal. The three-year agreement with BT Vision covers both channel-branded VOD (video-on-demand) content which will be available from today, and the network's award-winning portfolio of ...

2011 Broadband Growth Fastest in Five Years
MarketWatch (press release)
Broadband and IPTV growth spiked to a high in 2011 with rates higher than at any time in the last five years, according to year-end figures published by the Broadband Forum. Overall, broadband growth is estimated at 65493596 lines, bringing the global ...

Anevia Deploys IPTV Solution for the BNF National Library of France
MarketWatch (press release)
PARIS, FRANCE, Mar 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Anevia, a leader in video streaming solutions and service infrastructure for live TV and video on demand (VOD), today announced that it has deployed an IPTV solution for the BNF (Bibliotheque ...

Mariner Launches Two New Products Targeted at IPTV Installation Quality
MarketWatch (press release)
LONDON, Mar 21, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Mariner today announced the launch of MyVu™ and FieldVu™, the latest solutions to be added to the xVu product suite, the most widely deployed commercially available IPTV STB service monitoring solution in the ...

Thomas Cantwell to Retire from Miranda's Board of Directors, Tim Thorsteinson ...
MarketWatch (press release)
MONTREAL, QUEBEC, Mar 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Miranda Technologies Inc. (TOR:CA:MT) , a worldwide provider of infrastructure, playout and monitoring systems for the television broadcast, cable, satellite and IPTV industry, today announced ...

CodecSys Expands OTT Solution by Optimizing Content Services from Vivicast
MarketWatch (press release)
The agreement calls for joint services to be offered to mutual customers and partners who deliver next-generation IPTV and OTT solution offerings. The race to bring an expanded lineup of video broadcast programming to users over a variety of mobile ...

Chungwha Telecom Taps Ericsson, Verimatrix for IPTV Multiscreen Upgrade
Vision 2 Mobile
IP&TV WORLD FORUM — Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan's largest telecom operator, is prepping to upgrade its IPTV service to full multiscreen digital TV delivery. To that end, it has tapped Ericsson's Multiscreen TV and Media Connect platforms, integrated with ...