Interactive TV News Round-Up (I): ATIS, Concurrent, ES3, Pace, Microsoft Mediaroom
InteractiveTV Today [itvt]
Standards body, the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), on Wednesday released a solution for "securely identify[ing] and authenticat[ing] computers, TV's and other devices for connection into IPTV networks to enable video and ...

Slovak Telekom presents Magio TV promotion
Telecompaper (subscription) 
In the IPTV option (copper or optical network), the new features Programme Rewind and seven-day Magio Archive are added and will be available for three ...


IP Vision to sell hybrid TV, VoD businesses
Telecompaper (subscription) 
UK IPTV technology provider IP Visionhas initiated a process to sell its hybrid DTT/IPTV products and VoD businesses and assets. In order to facilitate an ...

IP Vision to sell all assets
IPTV News
UK firm IP Vision has confirmed that it is putting its hybrid DTT/IPTV solutions and premium VOD businesses and assets up for sale. The company called in Peter Kubik and Michael Kiely as Joint Administrators with effect from 22 December 2011, ... 

AT&T adds 208 U-verse TV subs
IPTV News
US telco AT&T has posted another huge quarter for its IPTV service 'U-verse TV', adding 208000 subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2011 to reach a total of 3.8mn in service. The company added that its margins for the service are improving thanks to ...

IPTV facing equipment replacement costs, lack of funding
The Spokesman Review (blog)
Butch Otter's budget recommendation calls for another year of zero funding next year, though IPTV requested $1.5 million. “Our operating model is not sustainable with current capital funding levels,” general manager Peter Morrill told the Joint ...

Sony BDP-S185 Blu-ray player
Register 
The good news is that it still offers full access to the Sony Entertainment Network IPTV portal. Sony's little space saver comes in a choice of two finishes ...

Billions of net-ready boxes in homes by 2016
Register
US market watcher NPD In-Stat reckons that there were some 256.8m devices - among them set-top boxes, games consoles, Blu-ray Disc players, and IPTV boxes like the Apple TV and Boxee Box - in folks' homes around the world. By 2016, that total will have ...

Vision IPTV merges with sister companies to form VISION247
Advanced Television
Vision IPTV, Playout247, Soho Data Centre and Connexion Broadcast are now officially operating as one: VISION247. The combination unites the four sister companies, Vision IPTV in the provision of IPTV services, Playout247 in providing broadcast ...

Exterity launches AvediaServer 4 platform at ISE 2012 to offer >IPTV
RealWire (press release)
Integrated Systems Europe, Amsterdam, 26th January 2012 - Exterity, the leading provider of IPTV communication solutions, today announces AvediaServer 4, the latest version of its multi-service platform for video storage, delivery and management.

Puerto Rico's Claro IPTV move faces challenges from cable operators
FierceTelecom
Puerto Rico incumbent service provider Claro's IPTV ambitions are facing a new legal challenge from cable rivals OneLink Communications and Choice Cable. In September 2011, Puerto Rico's Telecommunications Regulatory Board (TRB) approved Claro's ...

MRG IPTV vendor rankings
Advanced Television
Multimedia Research Group has revealed its 2011 Market Leader Report is now tracking over 934 IPTV Operators globally, an increase from 913 and representing over 50 million IPTV subscribers worldwide. “Although the MLR only tracks pure-play IPTV ...

Verizon sees big FiOS IPTV success for Q4,
Rapid tv news
Verizon added 194000 FiOS IPTV video subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2011, which helped it just beat Wall Street profit estimations of $28.39 billion with a record $28.4 billion in revenue. That 7.7% year-over-year increase translates into ...

IPTV News
Thierry will be speaking within the "TV On The Move" stream at the the IP&TV World Forum 2012 event, taking place in London on 20th-22nd March, 2012. For more information and to register, please visit www.iptv-forum.com.

ES3(TM) and Pace Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Smart, Integrated ...
MarketWatch (press release)
ES3 and Pace today announced a partnership for intelligent customer care and self-service TV applications for Microsoft® Mediaroom™ IPTV Operators. Under this new partnership, ES3 and Pace will work together on utility-based TV applications leveraging ..

ATIS Appoints Cheetah Technologies' Jeremy Bennington to Board of Directors
MarketWatch (press release)
"We are pleased to welcome Jeremy to the ATIS board, and appreciate Cheetah Technologies' contributions to the ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum, recognized globally as the leading developer of requirements, standards and specifications for IPTV," said ...

Telcos near 100 million pay TV subscriber mark
DigitalTVEurope.net
IPTV customers accounted for just 60% of telco pay TV subscribers at the end of September, according to the report, with many telcos also operating DTH, ...

ATIS Spec Vets IPTV Devices, Subscribers
Communications Technology
A new specification released by ATIS aims to securely identify and authenticate computers, TVs and other devices for connection to IPTV networks. ATIS is a technical planning and standards development organization committed to the rapid development of ...

Interactive TV News Round-Up (I): Amino, Celeno, Avail-TVN, Bermuda ...
InteractiveTV Today [itvt]
Amino Communications said Tuesday that it has chosen Celeno Communications to provide a range of wireless products that complement its IPTV/OTT set-top boxes. "Celeno's OptimizAIR technology will help Amino offer whole-home WiFi networking robust ...