IPTV War: Telstra Pumps $100M On Video As Optus Attack
ChannelNews
This is part of its Digital Media Business, announced today, which will see Foxtel, BigPond TV, Music , Movies and Games, IPTV (including T Box), Sensis Yellow pages, Trading Post all under the one umbrella. CEO David Thodey emphasised the importance ...

Vice inks shared contents deal with ABC, Fairfax and Sony IPTV
encore
The new deal will see these stories broadcast not only on new site Vice.com but syndicated to ABC iView, Fairfax Digital and Sony's IPTV. The company's syndication deal with CNN.com will continue as the company adds new international deals with The ...

Live TV from Boxee Coming to Canada
mediacaster
IPTV media provider Boxee plans to release a Live TV service that adds to its Internet-based media offerings. Initially available in the US and Canada, ...

AMX Releases Vision2 Streaming Video System with Next-Gen Innovations

AMX®, the leading provider of solutions that simplify the implementation, maintenance, and use of technology to create effective environments, announced today the immediate availability of its advanced Vision2 IPTV system (version 7.2). ...

MyWay's IPTV a Turn Off
Light Reading India
To get the extra functionality that IPTV can offer, in terms of interoperability, real-time TV pause/rewind functionality and supporting applications, a decent broadband connection is required. And with only 12 million or so lines running at 256 Kbit/s ...


Bell FIBE Boasts Significant Upgrades With v. 2.1
‎Marketnews.ca - Christine Persaud
Subscribers to Bell FIBE's IPTV service will be seeing some significant upgrades over the next two ... Read our full review of the Bell FIBE IPTV service.

Swisscom adds TV apps
IPTV News
Swisscom is to make a number of enhancements to its IPTV service 'Swisscom TV' on November 21st, including the introduction of TV apps, a more user-friendly video-on-demand service, and the ability to display photos stored elsewhere on the home network ...

 

Cable-Tec Expo: DOCSIS Gear Prices Falling As Bandwidth Usage Soars
Multichannel News
By Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News, 11/16/2011 10:37:27 AM Atlanta — The cost of DOCSIS equipment is dropping about as quickly as the amount of Internet traffic is increasing -- but the long-term transition to IPTV still represents a looming "pain ...

ISPs future is a four-letter word, conference told
ITWorld Canada
IPTV is the way independent Internet providers can fight integrated carriers who own television networks, says a consultant. Read why The key to survival for independent Internet service providers struggling against giant telephone and cable companies ...

IPTV in SA and globally
MyBroadband
Research firm Point-Topic released their global IPTV report recently, revealing that IPTV subscribers worldwide totalled 51.172 million at June 30 2011. IPTV's continued growth comes amidst challenging market conditions with competition from many ...

BSNL's partner pulls the plug on IPTV service
The Hindu
The IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) service offered by BSNL is being wound up following poor subscriber offtake. BSNL was providing IPTV services under a partnership with MyWay, a digital entertainment enterprise owned by Smart TV Group. ...

ISPreview Study Finds UK Consumers Interested in Broadband IPTV Services
PR.com (press release)
A new survey conducted with 590 UK readers of the independent consumer Internet Service Provider (ISP) information website, ISPreview.co.uk, has claimed that 57% are "interested" in next year's launch of broadband IPTV (internet based tv) services in ...

BT poaches IPTV guru from Virgin Media
uSwitch.com (Tech)
Broadband provider BT has made a significant hire as it aims to increase the popularity of its subscription television services. The firm has recruited Virgin Media Executive Director Alex Green to oversee its BT Vision arm, in a bid to drive growth ...

 Sony Cooks Up Plans to Break Into IPTV
TechNewsWorld
"It's the next step beyond the DVR." He noted that advertisers are OK with it, since on-demand streaming content providers can prevent viewers from fast-forwarding through advertisements. Sony Cooks Up Plans to Break Into IPTV.

Sony considering launching paid-for IPTV service?
TechRadar UK
By Patrick Goss Sony is reportedly considering its own IPTV paid television service, tying the offering into its many connected devices, including the PlayStation 3, televisions and Blu-ray players. According to the Wall Street Journal, Sony believes ...

UK broadband users express strong interest in IPTV Services
Rapid tv news
In what will come as very good news for UK ISPs about to launch TV services, a survey by ISPreview has found the majority of broadband users are interested IPTV services. Giving ISPs valuable feedback as to the nature of any IPTV services that they may ...

Chile's Telefónica del Sur upgrades IPTV monitoring solution
IPTV News
Chilean telco Telefónica del Sur has deployed a video monitoring solution from Norwegian firm Bridge Technologies for its IPTV service, launched in 2007. Bridge Technologies is to provide its VideoBRIDGE end-to-end monitoring and analysis system, ...

The Volpe Firm Offering Solutions, Services and Products for the Broadband ...
PR Newswire (press release)
The Volpe Firm, with 30 years of combined telecommunications experience, specializes in DOCSIS, VoIP, video, IPTV, RF Design, Design for Human Factors, Technical Marketing, Capacity Planning and Fiber Optic Transport. The Volpe Firm's mission is to ...

Chile's Telefónica del Sur Upgrades IPTV Monitoring with Bridge Technologies ...
Advanced Television
Chile's Telefónica del Sur, part of the Grupo Gtd telecommunications group, has deployed a VideoBRIDGE end-to-end monitoring and analysis system which includes Bridge Technologies' VB220 probes for advanced digital media monitoring of its IPTV services ...

Harmonic Ships Two Million QAMs, Doubling QAM Shipments in Just Over One Year
MarketWatch (press release)
Its successive generations are in use by hundreds of operators worldwide and have garnered multiple industry accolades, including Light Reading's Leading Lights Best New Cable Product Award, Internet Telephony IPTV Excellence Award, an IPTV World ...

Harmonic Unveils Outdoor Hub for Cable Access Networks
MarketWatch (press release)
With the highly efficient fiber use enabled by the Outdoor Hub, operators can deliver improved high speed internet, cable IPTV, and multiscreen services over their existing networks. Outdoor Hubs possess the flexibility to be configured for a variety ...

Altibox Deploys Envivio Encoders for Norway's First Multi-screen Video Service
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
"We wanted to go beyond our existing IPTV, voice and data services and enable video content to any device in order to provide a better experience to our 270000 subscribers throughout Norway," said Per André Rykhus, VP of markets, sales and products for ...

TalkTalk gets a little help from its friends for YouView trials
IPTV News
"IPTV services are growing strongly in other markets. I have spent quite a lot of time in the last six months talking directly to our colleagues in Iliad in France, to China Telecom, PCCW in Hong Kong, all of whom have large, growing IPTV businesses. ...

Portugal Telecom's Meo surpasses 1 million
Broadband TV News
Portugal Telecom has said that its IPTV service Meo surpassed one million customers in just three and half years after it was launched in April 2008. The operator also launched its Meo Go service. Meo customers represent circa 93% of PT's fixed ...

WSJ: Sony Gunning for Cable-TV with IPTV
Gizmodo
According to the WSJ, Sony is in talks with several big media companies to bring IPTV to its electronics line. Sony wants to stream live TV to its PS3, Blu-ray players and connected TVs. This service would cut cable companies out of the media delivery .

Bouygues Telecom taps Alca-Lu for broadband transformation project
IPTV News
... new innovations in Optics and IP technology, including 100G WDM and the new FP3 400G IP chipset. Bouygues Telecom had recorded 525000 active users of its BBox service (which combines high-speed Internet, IPTV and voice) by June of last year.

BT nabs Virgin Media exec for future TV plans
IPTV News
UK incumbent telco BT has appointed Alex Green as TV commercial and product director, a post which will involve him building on the success of the telco's hybrid DTT+IP service 'BT Vision' and developing the company's involvement in the new YouView ...