Entertain IPTV service to carry exclusive 3D channel
Telecompaper (subscription)
Telekom Deutschland has announced that the Entertain IPTV service will carry the '3D The Channel' 3D channel from 01 August. The channel will be available at no extra charge to all Entertain customers with VDSL connections and a 3D-enabled TV. ...

Informa: connected TV faces formidable challenges, despite early success
IPTV News
A major industry survey by Informa Telecoms & Media (publisher of IPTV News) has found that despite making strong early progress, connected TV services still face a number of challenges, and there is little consensus amongst the different players on ...

Deutsche Telekom expands IPTV platform with 3D channel
Rapid tv news
German telco Deutsche Telekom will expand the TV line-up of its IPTV platform Entertain on 1 August 2011 with 3D The Channel. The new service will show programmes covering sports, fashion, lifestyle, events and travel in three-dimensional format. ...

Personalized, Portable, On-Demand IPTV Services Are On the Way---Infonetics ...
TMC Net
By Madhubanti Rudra Infonetics' newly published newsletter, “IPTV (News - Alert) services getting highly personalized, highly integrated, portable, on-demand,” highlighted on some interesting aspects of how IPTV service providers are responding or ...

TV apps getting used on a weekly basis
IPTV News
A recent survey by Informa Telecoms & Media (publisher of IPTV News) found that attitudes to connected TV applications have softened considerably in the past few years: they are now believed to be an important addition to connected TVs, although there ..

Live From The Independent Show: Fear Or Feast Moving Forward?
Communications Technology
“Tier 1 MSOs may go national (with IPTV offerings), forgetting that loyalty,” she said. Her partner on the panel, Miller Tabak & Co. analyst David Joyce, believes software will override hardware when it comes to how MSOs will offer new services and, ...

Microsoft Is Taking IPTV Serious on the Xbox As Evidence by Its New Media Remote
eHomeUpgrade
By Alexander Grundner | July 27th, 2011 (0) Comments Besides the new, slim Bluetooth headset you may have seen on some of the gadget and gaming sites this week, Microsoft also unveiled a new Xbox 360 Media Remote. It, of course, has buttons the mimic ...

JDSU Receives TMC 2010 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award
MarketWatch (press release)
JDSU Home PM provides deep visibility into the home networking network performance data needed to ensure quality of experience for multi-play services such as IPTV, VoIP and high-speed Internet. TMC recognized JDSU with the award based on Home PM's ...

TiVUS Engages New Public Accounting Firm
PR Newswire (press release)
TiVUS' unique HD IPTV system is a complete hotel entertainment platform that, for the first time in the industry, generates previously untapped income for the hotel through ad-revenue sharing. For more information, please visit www.TiVUS.com and www. ...

KPN grows IPTV, but DTT falls
Broadband TV News
However, while an additional 56000 homes were added to the IPTV service to reach 416000, terrestrial platform Digitenne lost 14000 homes, ending the quarter on 868000. As reported in Broadband TV News, KPN is now offering two tuners as the standard for ...

Mindspeed's Comcerto Multi-Core Packet Processors Fuel OKI Electric Home ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The product's unique dual-core architecture allows each processor to run independently of the other, one dedicated to core gateway functionalities such as IPTV routing and voice processing, and the other to OSGi applications. ...

IPTV remains a driver of broadband growth for KPN
IPTV News
KPN added 56000 IPTV subscribers in the second quarter of 2011 to reach a total of 416000 subscribers, with the Dutch telco stating that IPTV remains one of the growth drivers of its broadband customer base. The company has a long-established IPTV ...

Moldtelecom adds interactive functions to new IPTV channels
Telecompaper (subscription)
Moldavian operator Moldtelecom announced that it made available its interactive functions pause, replay and record for 10 new IPTV channels, effective as of 26 July. Initially, Moldtelecom introduced interactive functions for 5 IPTV channels at the end ...

Infonetics Research IPTV survey: IPTV services getting highly personalized,
Newsday (subscription)
Click here Infonetics Research IPTV survey: IPTV services getting highly personalized, Published: July 21, 2011 5:25 PM By The Associated Press (Marketwire) -- 07/21/11 -- Market research firm Infonetics Research today released excerpts from its 2011 ...

Copaco inks USD6.2 million IPTV integration deal with Sitesa
TeleGeography
The IPTV network has been tipped to go live in October, with a launch in capital city Asuncion. As previously reported by TeleGeography's CommsUpdate, in October 2010 Copaco announced that it intended to invest a total of USD20 million in the launch of ...

AMINO TEC : 25/07/2011 - Interim Results
4-traders (press release)
"The strength of our core IPTV product range - with over 200 operators deploying or trialling our new set-top boxes in the key North American market - is increasingly being complemented by traction we are seeing in the emerging OTT market. ...

INTERVIEW-Sky Deutschland says cash will last to break-even
Reuters
DE), which is trying to make inroads in the pay-TV business, managed to obtain the rights to show the games via the Internet in an effort to expand its IPTV offering. Tomsic said he was not worried by Deutsche Telekom. "We live and die by our pay ... 

IPTV to generate higher on-demand revenues than DTT in 2012
IPTV News
IPTV is predicted to overtake DTT in 2012 as the third-largest platform for on-demand revenues: DTT on-demand revenues are described as being mainly confined to Western Europe, and Italy in particular. “Much emphasis has been placed on on-demand ...

63% of IPTV Service Providers Will Support Multi-Screen Viewing
Business Wire (press release)
What's more interesting is that the survey says that by 2012, 63% of IPTV service providers plan to support multi-screen viewing across PCs, tablets, and smartphones. This is a real recognition by service providers of what's happening in homes across ...

Portugal Telecom adds 44k pay-TV subs in 2Q11
IPTV News
Portugal Telecom had reached 919000 subscribers for its pay-TV service 'Meo' (delivered via IPTV, satellite and mobile) by the end of the second quarter of this year, having added 44000 customers in the three month period. The telco reports that its ...

Verizon nears 4mn FiOS TV subs
IPTV News
Net profits rose sharply by the same comparison to reach US$ 3.604bn. AT&T recently announced that it added over 200000 subscribers for its IPTV service 'U-verse TV' in the second quarter of this year to reach a total of 3.4mn.

IPTV services "getting highly personalised", driving industry change
IPTV News
IPTV services are entering their next phase of growth and maturity as operators move beyond basic video offerings and start to provide customers with a highly personalised, highly integrated and portable on-demand viewing experience, according to a new ...

 Investments in IPTV and Bandwidth Consumption Continue to Grow Worldwide
IT Business Edge (blog)
By date: by Carl Weinschenk, IT Business Edge Carl Weinschenk spoke to John Kendall, a market analyst for IMS Research, about the third edition of its IPTV Report. Investments in IP networks are increasing across the board. ...