Deutsche Telekom Considers Polish Fixed Lines, Slovak Buyout in Turnaround
Bloomberg
“Fixed-mobile convergence is a precondition to be able to leverage the market and certainly to serve the customer best by offering fixed, broadband, TV or IPTV,” Mahler, 62, said in Warsaw in an interview. “In the integrated markets we see the ...

IPTV is broadcast's next power play
ITWorld Canada
Product Review - How does the HTC touch stack up against its competitors in the intense smart phone market? Manfred Arndt of HP ProCurve discusses SMB and enterprise networking at the Interop business technology event in New York City. ...

TRAI recommendations to raise FDI for DTH, IPTV from 49% to 74% accepted by ...
Economic Times
The recommendations have been accepted to bring a parity between DTH and IPTV operators with other carriage services like HITS etc that are allowed to invite up to 74 per cent, said a Ministry official. The Ministry has, however, not accepted the ...

IPTV: A Bright Future for Hotel IPTV
hotel-industry.co.uk
A recent study from IMS Research has revealed that the global hospitality market for Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) is set to enjoy double-digit year-on-year growth rates as more hoteliers decide to adopt IPTV technology as their main in-room technology ...

Broadband Forum to Improve IPTV Performance With New Spec
PCWorld
By Mikael Ricknäs, IDG News Broadband Forum has released BroadbandSuite 4.1, a set of specifications that aim to improve the performance of IPTV and DSL, the industry organization said on Tuesday. The latest version of the BroadbandSuite -- which can ...

Ericsson: "It's not just about IPTV, it's about TV"
IPTV News
In recognition of winning this year's IP&TV Industry Award for 'Best Multiscreen TV Solution', we speak to Ove Anebygd, Head of IPTV & Connected Home, Solution Area TV at Ericsson. What was the original thinking behind the creation of your winning ...

AT&T U-verse TV Customers Can Follow the French Open Like Never Before With ...
PR Newswire (press release)
AT&T U-verse TV is the only 100 percent Internet Protocol-based television (IPTV) service offered by a national service provider, making AT&T U-verse one of the most dynamic and feature-rich services available today. Now AT&T U-verse TV ranks "Highest ...

AT&T signs multi-screen accord with Turner Networks
IPTV News
In addition to providing access to a range of TV shows and movies, U-verse Online also enables customers of AT&T's IPTV service 'U-verse TV' to schedule recordings for their U-verse DVR at home, check their installation or service appointment status, ...

Ericsson IPTV Remote wins Connected TV Award
Screen Africa
The Ericsson IPTV Remote has been named a winner in the 'Outstanding Technology Innovation' category at the inaugural Connected TV Awards 2011, marking further success for the solution which addresses the growing consumer desire for the individual TV ...

MCS to launch IPTV channel MCS Bien-être
Rapid tv news
The new IPTV channel will target women, dedicated to health and well-being and will be carried first on Numericable and on SFR's ADSL platform, before being extended to other operators in France, Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg. ...

IPTV platforms compete with cable
Broadband TV News
11.3 million pay-TV subscribers were added at the end of first quarter of 2011, according to ABI Research. “By the end of 2011, the total number of pay-TV subscriptions is expected to exceed 759 million,” said practice director Jason Blackwell of ABI ...

InfoCom says Tablet PCs are changing the mobile TV experience.
openPR (press release)
... markets round the world, offered either free of charge or as paid add-ons by different kind of players: content providers (content producers and Pay TV operators), mobile operators and TV access providers (CaTV, IPTV and satellite operators). ...

 Govt plans to raise FDI cap in DTH, IPTV and FM
Times of India
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry has proposed to increase foreign direct investment limit across media platforms -- in direct-to home, internet protocol TV (IPTV), multi-system operators and FM radio -- to bring in consistency, ...

Optimal Solutions is moving beyond GR with its interactive IPTV software
WZZM
GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) -A traditional television in a patient's hospital room is "basically a dumb device," according to Scott King, director of converged technology at Optimal Solutions in Wyoming. He's not denigrating television programming in general. 

Visionary Solutions Enhances AVN Series IPTV Encoders
Broadcast Newsroom
DMN Newswire--2011-5-23-- Visionary Solutions, Inc., today announced that the company will showcase its enhanced AVN series IPTV encoders, which feature a new order fulfillment scheme for new product modules, at InfoComm 2011 in Orlando, ...

IPTV subscriptions to cross 70 mn by 2014: Kagan
Indiantelevision.com
MUMBAI: An analysis of the top 75 media economies across North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific by media information provider SNL Kagan shows that there are strong growth prospects for IPTV. IPTV adoption has increased ... 

Shift happens: the new way to watch film and TV
The Guardian
This is Internet TV, but is it IPTV? What we have today is a digitised video stream chopped up and stuffed into dumb IP packets. Here, dumb means little or no metadata, little or no upstream information or interactivity. IPTV means TV endowed with ...

SNL Kagan: Robust global IPTV CAGR to continue
ConnectedPlanet
By Dan O'Shea IPTV still serves only 6 percent of the global base of pay TV subscribers, but the sector has carried a 92.4 percent compound annual growth rate for the last six years and should maintain strong growth through 2014, according to research ...

I&B ministry okay with 74% FDI ceiling for DTH, IPTV
Economic Times
While platforms such as HITS and mobile TV are allowed to invite FDI up to 74%, a parity is now being sought to be restored by allowing DTH , Teleport and IPTV operators also to attract the same level of foreign investment. "The ministry may broadly ...

No One Wants 3D TV
PCWorld
... the report's author, said that there was no uniform approach to 3D broadcasting in the region -- Australian 3D programming is restricted to special events, while Japanese TV has an on-demand, pay-per-view model for its Hikari TV IPTV service. ...

Woodruff will moderate Des Moines Register's Jan. 12 Republican presidential ...
The Republic
The debate will be at IPTV's Johnson studios. The newspaper says Internet sites Google and YouTube also will be involved to help "give Iowans the opportunity to share ideas directly with Woodruff and Register staffers" before and during the debate. ...

Pay-TV makes shift to OTT, IPTV from cable TV
Rapid tv news
IPTV and over the top (OTT) video have begun to eat into cable TV's dominance of the pay-TV market according to new market analysis from ABI Research. In its report, Pay-TV Subscriber Market Data, ABI calculates that at the end of the first quarter of ...

 Murtaugh teacher to be seen in IPTV program
Twin Falls Times-News
Murtaugh High School teacher Adam Johnson is among the people included in an Idaho Public Television program that will air at 8 and 11 pm Wednesday. Johnson is among the interviewees featured in The Color of Conscience, an examination of Idaho's modern ...

Max Media Group, Inc. Executes Definitive Agreement to Acquire www ...
AUTO-MOBI.info (press release)
BB2Live.com ("BB2") and the company's technology applications including Internet Radio Protocol, IPTV, VOIP and SMS text messaging. 

Investment in 3D programming "low priority for broadcasters"‎
IPTV News 
... such as Fox Sports and the Seven Network in Australia have presented 3D programming on an ad hoc basis; in Japan, NTT Plala's IPTV service, Hikari TV, 

Survival in Dubai‎
InAVate
Khalifa says a lot of IPTV and Hotel-TV companies have found that business ... So, the IPTV companies have found their margins here are quite tight so 


BT Opts for Motive ServiceView Solution Suite‎
TMC Net - Deepika Mala 
... products and services, has chosen the Motive's ServiceView Solution Suite to support its high-speed Internet, IPTV (News - Alert) and VoIP services. 

Outdoor Channel Expands Reach in Indonesia‎
World Screen - Morgan Grice 
I believe this first-ever IPTV platform in Indonesia will definitely give a different experience ... With our IPTV, watching TV will never be the same again!”
 

Smart TV: What you need to know
CNET Australia
These televisions offer apps, media streaming, web browsing, games and, perhaps most importantly, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV). IPTV is a specific type of internet video standard, but is now also used as shorthand for any video streamed via the ...