Wednesday, 31 January 2007

mstv

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Everstream Expands Television Viewer Measurement
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Everstream's ReportOne 2.0 software package now supports Microsoft's popular MSTV platform, as well as support for standard audience measurement metrics ...



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CableLabs names 15Mbps as "safe harbor bitrate" for MPEG2 HD VOD
Engadget HD - Santa Monica,CA,USA
We already know how fond CableLabs is of HD VOD content, so it makes perfect sense that the gurus behind the scenes are aiming to provide media that ...

Flextech Television Adds Digital Rapids StreamZ For VOD & Mobile ...
broadcastbuyer.tv (press release) - London,UK
According to Flextech's Ben Blomfield, "For our Interactive department to remain ahead of the game for Mobile and VOD content delivery we had to invest in ...

VOD Health Service Adds Cox, Bresnan
Broadcast Newsroom - Newport Beach,CA,USA
... and adding HealthiNation to our increasingly robust VOD offerings will be a great resource for our growing number of video subscribers. ...
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Comcast Media Center, C-COR Launch "VOD in a Box"
InteractiveTV Today [itvt] - San Francisco,CA,USA
Comcast Media Center (CMC), a Comcast business unit that offers a range of content services for cable operators, has teamed with VOD equipment provider, ...
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BBC greenlights VOD service
Variety (subscription) - USA
By STEVE CLARKE. The corporation's iPlayer, a key part of the pubcaster's new media strategy, has been provisionally approved by the BBC Trust, ...

Showtime Updates Smithsonian VOD Fare
Broadcast Newsroom - Newport Beach,CA,USA
The VOD service will offer a slate of more than 60 programs produced by some of the industry's top nonfiction-production companies. ...
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Nielsen Now Measuring College Viewers from Nielsen Households ...
By Sam Ford
Nielsen has also made moves to measure VOD programming. Back in November, I said, "I hope it will at least further drive innovation in the VOD market, where viewers are increasingly interested and where new and innovative business ...
Convergence Culture Consortium (C3@MIT) - http://www.convergenceculture.org/weblog/

15mbps for HD VOB - CableLabs
By hdtvblogger
You may think that 15mbps may not seem that high for VOD HD considering that mpeg2 ATSC can handle up to 19.3mbps but the newer generation encoders are putting out exceptional quality at the 15mbps range. ...
HDTV Blogger - http://www.hdtvblogger.com

CableLabs names 15Mbps as "safe harbor bitrate" for MPEG2 HD VOD
By Darren Murph
While the recommended SD VOD rate remained steady at just 3.75Mbps, CableLabs has named 15Mbps the "safe harbor bitrate" to allow all forms of HD VOD content (including talking heads and fast-moving action films) to be seen at a quality ...
Engadget HD - http://www.engadgethd.com

Steve Case's Lime TV Going Cable VOD and Broadband
LimeTVLogo.gifThey are currently offering free VOD content on Insight Communications, Mediacom Communications and other smaller cable companies. We're not trying to walk away from the cable business at all. We care very deeply about the ...
TheAlphaMarketer - http://www.thealphamarketer.com/



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Record Attendance Expected at IPTV World Forum
Xtvworld (press release) - India
Com) -- The rapid emergence of IPTV as a genuine revenue-generating new application for network operators in Europe and beyond, is helping to fuel record ...

Convergin Launches First IPTV-Ready Service Control and ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
For the first time, wireless, wireline, and cable operators, can horizontally integrate IPTV services with their current service offerings, and control the ...

Strategy Analytics Sees 80 mln IPTV Homes in 2011, Only 50% Will Pay
IT News Online - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
According to a new report from the technology research firm, Strategy Analytics, the total number of IPTV households will grow dramatically over the next ...
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Spring 2007 VON Conference Spotlight: Telephony's IPTV Workshop ...
Vonosphere - Melville,NY,USA
Join Telephony at Spring VON 2007 for a full day of expert insight into the ever-evolving world of IPTV. Telephony's IPTV Workshop will deliver attendees a ...

T-Com's IPTV service offers HD ProSieben broadcasts
Telecom Paper (subscription) - Houten,Netherlands
T-Home offers high-speed internet access, VoIP and IPTV services in a single package. It provides access to over 130 free and pay-TV broadcasters via ...
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IBM, Cisco soft launch IPTV
ITworld.com - Southboro,MA,USA
Olli Patja, an IBM Finland executive, described the modular IPTV offering during an unscheduled presentation at an all-day event for IBM and Cisco customers ...
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IPTV: Remote(ly) in Control?
Business Wire India (press release) - New Delhi,India
IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) is touted as the new growth frontier for both telecom and internet service providers with over 30 deployments globally ...

Telefonica O2 CR signs IPTV deal with Sony Pictures
Telecom Paper (subscription) - Houten,Netherlands
Telefonica O2 Czech Republic (Telefonica O2 CR) has signed a 3-year agreement with Hollywood studio Sony Pictures Television International for the ...

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RSS TV = Indie IPTV (or better: iPTV…)
By valentin spirik
While the entertainment industry is betting high on set top boxes ("media centres") - proprietary technology and user unfriendly DRM included - for TV over the net delivery (IPTV), there is an increasing number of users building their ...
P2P Foundation - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net

65 mln IPTV subscribers by 2010
By Alex Moskalyuk
The ranks of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) subscribers grew ... The growth of IPTV will contribute to a telecom operator revenue stream of about $18 ... At the other end of the value chain, sales of semiconductors for IPTV across ...
ITFacts.biz - http://www.itfacts.biz

Revised workplan for SG 12 adds IPTV
Study Group 12 Vice Chair, Chuck Dvorak, said that he expects that IPTV and other multimedia QoS and QoE issues will see increasing attention in SG12 moving forward. Dvorak also said that he expects that the non-transport aspects of ...
ITU-T Newslog - http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/newslog/

Convergin Adds IPTV Operability for SCIM
By TVover.net
Convergin announced that its Accolade WCS Service Capability Interaction Management (SCIM) product, now enables the integration of IPTV and telecom services in converged networks. Wireless, wireline, and cable operators, ...
TVover.net - http://www.tvover.net/



Tuesday, 30 January 2007

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Turnkey VOD Coming To Smaller Cable Markets From Comcast And C-COR
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
The service is designed for smaller markets to reduce the complexity, cost and time that is typical to operate VOD. By W. David Gardner ...
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VOD Game Company TVHead Rebrands Itself TAG Networks
Broadcast Newsroom - Newport Beach,CA,USA
Founded in May 2003 to supply interactive gaming for cable and IPTV, TAG raised $11.5 million in new financing to launch its VOD channel last June ...

Schweizer Fernsehen launches Vista VoD service - report
Telecom Paper (subscription) - Houten,Netherlands
Swiss TV broadcaster Schweizer Fernsehen (SF) has announced the launch of the SF Media Center Channel video-on-demand (VoD) service for Microsoft Vista ...

Kasenna Launches Spanish VOD Service
4RFV - Belfast,Ireland
Kasenna has announced that Jazztel, the Spanish telecommunications and data transmission provider has launched its video on demand (VOD) service across ...

CMC Brings Managed VoD to Smaller Operators
xchange Magazine - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Comcast Media Center (CMC), a business unit of Comcast Cable, and C-COR Inc. said Tuesday they are launching the turnkey VOD In a Box for operators serving ...
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HealthiNation Launches with Bresnan
PharmaLive.com (press release) - Newtown,PA,USA
HealthiNation's programming began airing in select cable VOD markets in June 2006, and is now expanding with major video service providers nationwide. ...
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WWE: WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCE WWE 24/7 ...
Wrestlemag - Austin,TX,USA
"The diverse array of VOD content has helped make our iO digital cable service the most highly penetrated in the nation, with more than 76 percent of our ...

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Comcast Media Center and C-COR On Demand Solution to Cable Systems
By oss
The "VOD In a Box" solution covers all of the basic hardware and software elements ... The "VOD In a Box" product uses C-COR's n5C compact video server platform that is built specifically to address the needs of smaller market VOD. ...
Telecom OSS News Review - http://www.ossnewsreview.com

Qantas Entertainment - a Very Obvious Defect (VOD)
By Tim Hughes(Tim Hughes)
As a quick reminder, Qantas launched a new VOD system about a year ago claiming that it was a revolution in airline ... Firstly the flights I have been on the VOD system has been broken in whole sections, if not the whole plane. ...
The BOOT - The Business of Online Travel - http://tims-boot.blogspot.com/index.html

IPTV/VoD Cutting Off The Air Supply
By TVover.net
Alexander Cameron shares his views in "Cutting Off the Air Supply" on Narrowstep, Joost/The Venice Project, and BT's business of DSL backhauling. To us, this paper was of quite interest both for Alex's industry insight into BT and the ...
TVover.net - http://www.tvover.net/

Lime sours on cable, stays with VOD (Reuters)
By Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
Reuters - An independent cable channel is dropping its linear network to focus more on other platforms.
Celebrity Gossip and Chat - http://www.celebritygossipandchat.com

Smithsonian Networks Details Programming Slate for VOD Service
Washington - Smithsonian Networks, a joint venture between CBS' Showtime Networks and the Smithsonian Institution, said on Monday that its new video-on-demand service will feature a slate of over 60 programs when it makes its debut ...
Digital Media Wire - connecting... - http://www.dmwmedia.com



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NDS Announces Peer-to-Peer IPTV Content Sharing and Distributed ...
eHomeUpgrade (press release) - San Mateo,CA,USA
NDS, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced two new product enhancements of Synamedia Metro, the NDS IPTV ...
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EPM Telecommunications Selects TANDBERG Television to Launch First ...
American Digital Networks (press release) - Annapolis,MD,USA
OL) today announced with business partner Balum Ltd. that its industry leading IPTV video headend and MPEG-4 AVC encoders have been selected by EPM ...

Record Attendance Expected At This Years IPTV World Forum
NewsBlaze (press release) - Folsom,CA,USA
The rapid emergence of IPTV as a genuine revenue-generating new application for network operators in Europe and beyond, is helping to fuel record levels of ...

UTStarcom to Demonstrate IPTV, IPCDMA and FMC Solutions at 3GSM ...
Earthtimes.org - USA
... UTStarcom will also have live demonstrations of its MovingMedia(TM) 2000 all-IP CDMA2000 network solution; RollingStream(TM) end-to-end IPTV system; ...
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Strategy Analytics: 80 Million IPTV Subscribers by 2011, But Only ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
This report predicts that the number of households worldwide paying for IPTV services will rise from 3.3 million in 2006 to 40.9 million in 2011. ...

Strategy Analytics: 80 Million IPTV Subscribers by 2011, But Only ...
American Digital Networks (press release) - Annapolis,MD,USA
BOSTON-(Business Wire)-January 30, 2007 - The total number of IPTV households will grow dramatically over the next five years, rising from just under 6 ...
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Coming Soon: IPTV Set Top Boxes
Techtree.com - Mumbai,India
While Amino will provide the IPTV software and hardware design for the manufacture of the STBs, TBSPL will mass deliver its 'My Time' IPTV Package across ...
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IPTV-Americas Selects Verimatrix
TVover.net - St. Louis,MO,USA
IPTV-Americas has selected the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) to provide digital video content security throughout its digital video ...
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80 Million IPTV Subscribers by 2011, But Only Half Will Pay
By TVover.net
The total number of IPTV households will grow dramatically over the next five years, rising from just under 6 million homes worldwide in 2006 to more than 80 million in 2011, predicts a new report from the technology research firm, ...
TVover.net - http://www.tvover.net/

Dmitry Shapiro of Veoh on IPTV
By Jason Dowdell
So I was looking for Andrew and found him schmoozing yet another person (that's why I'm glad he works for us and not for the other guys) and Dmitry Shapiro of Veoh came over to say hi. I vaguely remembered Veoh but couldn't tell you ...
Marketing Blog Bent On Market... - http://www.marketingshift.com/

TeliaSonera makes a Start with free IPTV
By Julian Clover
... the Internet directly on their television sets. Kanalpaket Start is comparable with the starter packages offered by the Swedish cable market. Start is one of four IPTV packages on offer from TeliaSonera to customers with Telia [...]
Broadband TV News - http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/today

Who wants their IPTV -- and why?
Despite the hype, there are benefits to be had from TV carried over the Internet.
Computerworld Networking News - http://www.computerworld.com

Time Broadband Signs Deal With Amino
Time Broadband Signs Deal With Amino January 30, 2007 - Time Broadband Services, IPTV service provider in India, and Amino...
IPTV News - http://www.iptv-news.com



Monday, 29 January 2007

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Showtime and Smithsonian To Launch VOD
Broadcast Newsroom - Newport Beach,CA,USA
The co-venture, Smithsonian Networks, has acquired various films and is developing a programming slate of documentaries and short-form VOD programs with ...
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Cleaning Up on Closing DVD Window
Broadcast Newsroom - Newport Beach,CA,USA
Moffett points to big VOD promoter Comcast, which delivered 180 million on-demand video streams in December alone. For the full year, Comcast delivered 1.9 ...

Xchange battle gets X-rated
FT Alphaville - London,UK
"Adult content over VOD platforms offers highly profitable revenue streams for content distributors," the company said. "While adult content makes up, ...

GameZnFlix Offers Movie Downloads From Its Video On Demand Website ...
Market Wire (press release) - USA
... has launched www.gnfdigital.com, an online video on demand (VOD) storefront that offers movies and other premium video programs by secure download. ...

The Dynamics of On-Demand Ads
Broadcast Newsroom - Newport Beach,CA,USA
Right now, "dynamic ad insertion" (which also sometimes goes by "dynamic VOD") is what happens when you, as a service provider, can splice a digital ad into ...

Lime TV Going Dark
Broadcast Newsroom - Newport Beach,CA,USA
Lime has free-VOD content on Insight Communications, Mediacom Communications and some smaller cable firms, and it hopes to gain a foothold with larger cable ...

Verizon's investment in Texas tops a quarter-billion dollars
San Antonio Business Journal - San Antonio,TX,USA
The Basking Ridge, NJ-based company is a joint venture of Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) and Vodafone PLC (NYSE: VOD).

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Comment on Microsoft v. Apple, again — battling over consumer ...
#5 - It figures that you'd like Comcrap, of which their VoD service is in the "Failure" catagory. Why? High cost and low quality of content. Apple won't fail in these ways. #6 - Meanwhile, the Apple TV is the best selling item on ...
Comments for Dvorak Uncensored - http://www.dvorak.org/blog

Roger's VOD service not loading
By Professor Hiro
My Roger's VOD service (be it Movie Pix on Demand, WWE 24/7, Movie Network on Demand, etc.) fails to load the video. What happens is the channel loads sure enough and once I hit the selection that I want to play the "Enjoy the Video! ...
Digital Forum - http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum

VOD (Feb 18, 2007)
By Hans Flueck
ICON: 2786|2469952 SND: 9826396 LOC: Good Shepherd #AN Feb 18, 2007 Location: Good Shepherd.
This month's FoJB Family Calendar - http://www.airset.com

MMWR: Deals, Deals, Deals
By Jeff(Jeff)
... no paint swatches, and no furniture stores in my life. It was a beautiful sight to behold. Friday night we decided to rent a movie. It was a brilliant plan, except for the fact that our VOD (video on demand) service.
Daddy Diary Tales - http://daddydiarytales.blogspot.com/index.html

GameZnFlix Offers Movie Downloads From Its Video On Demand Website ...
(OTCBB: GZFX), an onlineprovider of video games and DVD movies for rent or purchase, has launchedwww.gnfdigital.com, an online video on demand (VOD) storefront that offersmovies and other premium video programs by secure download.
Articles by Marketwire - http://www.sys-con.com/



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Time Broadband to manufacture Amino IPTV boxes in India, plans to ...
Indiantelevision.com - Andheri,Mumbai,India
"This is a significant development for us as India is a potentially big market for IPTV. We have manufacturing arrangements also in China and Taiwan," says ...
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Optibase Installs MPEG4 IPTV Solution For Lattelecom
4RFV - Belfast,Ireland
Optibase has successfully installed the Baltic's first turnkey MPEG4 IPTV solution for Lattelecom, Latvia's leading provider of information technology and ...
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MTNL: IPTV, GSM offset fixed line churn
Moneycontrol.com - Mumbai,India
Q: Could you give us some specific numbers on your expectations on the broadband and IPTV front? Could give us a roadmap of how you expect revenues to ...

AT&T's IPTV Makes Run Despite Glitches and Delays
TMCnet - USA
With a view to strengthen its hold in the US market, the company brought about a radical change in its service offerings by introducing IPTV service. ...
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New IPTV Zone introduced at IBC2007
WebitPR (press release) - North Hykeham,Lincoln,UK
Gartner has predicted that IPTV will reach 3.3 million homes in Western Europe this year and that this number will rise to 16.7 million in 2010, ...

Widevine(R) Technologies Selected by Brasil Telecom to Protect ...
Broadcast Newsroom - Newport Beach,CA,USA
Brasil Telecom (NYSE: BTM),one of the country's major providers of converged telecommunications services, is the first to offer IPTV in Brazil. ...

NDS Enhances IPTV Middleware
Light Reading (press release) - USA
Distributed-DVR and ShareTV are two patent pending product features which will deliver even more benefit to IPTV service providers who choose Synamedia ...
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Ten things advertisers need to know about IPTV
Digital Bulletin - UK
There's a buzz in the air about IPTV, the delivery of television content via high-speed broadband connections, writes Caroline Binfield, director of TV at ...

IPTV Sports
BroadbandReports.com - New York,NY,USA
Last week AT&T stated that they won't compete on price when it comes to VDSL and U-Verse IPTV -- they instead (to use their parlance) want to increase ...

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IPTV And Home Television Offerings Are Telcos Best Stealth ...
By Robin Good
Nonetheless my articles on IPTV and its key differences with "open", bottom-up, Internet television, I couldn't see an IPTV line being installed in my home right in front of my nose, if only when it was too late. ...
Robin Good's Latest News - http://www.masternewmedia.org/index.html

IPTV and broadband video to be showcased at IBC2007
By Andy
The IBC2007 IPTV Zone will bring together many of the organisations and technologies that are emerging as major forces in these new markets. It will therefore provide a unique opportunity for application developers, content providers ...
Media Network Weblog - http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork

IPTV and broadband video to be showcased at IBC2007
By svartling(svartling)
IPTV will reach 3.3 million homes in Western Europe this year and that ... focus for the IPTV Zone at IBC2007, a new visitor attraction being ... The IPTV Zone will be accompanied by the IBC2007 IPTV Zone Business ...
MicroContent - http://microcontent.blogspot.com/index.html

New IPTV Zone introduced at IBC2007
IPTV and broadband video to be showcased at IBC2007.
StreamingMedia.com: Industry News Feed - http://www.streamingmedia.com/

Optibase completes Latvian IPTV installation
By Chris Dziadul
Optibase has completed the installation of what is the first turnkey MPEG-4 IPTV solution in the Baltic Republics for Lattelecom, the incumbent Latvian telco. It will allow the telco, which is 49% indirectly owned by TeliaSonera, ...
Broadband TV News - http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/today



Sunday, 28 January 2007

IPTV News Update

IPTV News

AT&T blames Microsoft for IPTV delays Ever seen a blue-screen of ...
By directorblue
AT&T blames Microsoft for IPTV delays Ever seen a blue-screen of death on your television? AT&T is blaming buggy Microsoft software for its painfully slow rollout of U-Verse. U-Verse -- formerly known as Project Lightspeed -- attempts ...
http://directorblue.blogspot.com

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Vodafone "to sell Bharti Airtel stake": report
KPLC-TV - Lake Charles,LA,USA
LONDON (Reuters) - Vodafone (VOD.L) has held talks with SingTel about the sale of its 10 percent stake in India's Bharti Airtel (BRTI. ...
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Question About DirecTV's VOD
By CraigM
Is it too early to discuss DirecTV's VOD? I was wondering will the movies be the same as PPV and you would have to wait 30 days after a new release came out DVD before it came out on VOD? If so would they ever shrink this window? ...
DBSTalk.Com - General DirecTV™... - http://www.dbstalk.com

road focus
the senses of the brain can disfunction on a pause that distracted the concentration focused on the priority that must be achieved, though it is difficult to find yourself back to the mind state, the ...
The Words of Estevaun Vod-eviLe - http://blog.myspace.com/sirvodvil

Fanmade VOD - We Love RAIN (updated)
By rss@dailymotion.com (rain82)
Clouds always love Rain. Author: rain82 Tags: rain bi jung jihoon jeong korean kpop jyp music video concert show performance mv country:US user-category:creation user-category:people Posted: 28 January 2007.
Dailymotion - videos - http://www.dailymotion.com/tag/korean

Cockasian (2006) - Digital Playground
Cockasian - $11.68.
Skin On Demand: Current Bestsellers... - http://skinondemand.dvdempire.com

Barron's Summary
By notablecalls(notablecalls)
FTE, E, ABN, BT, HBC, VOD, BCS, ING and RDSA. According to the Barron's, the Avis Budget (CAR) auto-rental unit has garnered scant attention. Therein lay an opportunity, a neglected turnaround story with freshly motivated mgmt. ...
Notable Calls - http://notablecalls.blogspot.com/index.html


Saturday, 27 January 2007

IPTV News Update

IPTV News

AT&T to ramp up IPTV's expansion
Indiantelevision.com - Andheri,Mumbai,India
AT&T's IPTV service is working better than the company expected--and AT&T plans to ramp up deployments in the coming year, Chief Executive Officer Ed ...

Sports Battle Looms for IPTV
Light Reading - USA
As the technical kinks of new technologies like IPTV get worked out, operators will no longer be able to differentiate their services by just saying "ours ...

Internet TV and IPTV - any difference
By Bob Browning(Bob Browning)
However there is something else that uses the same (or similar) technology, is called IPTV and is big business now. This is essentially a mulyi-channel cable service offered by telephone companies using their existing telephone lines ...
Bob Browning - http://textor.blogspot.com/index.html

KOREA: IPTV trial service gets positive public response
Half of users in pilot service say they would pay for IPTV services.
AsiaMedia East Asia News - http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu

Microsoft Explains Xbox 360 IPTV In Detail
By SolSie
Microsoft execs Chris Satchell and Albert Penello walk us through the interface of IPTV on the Xbox360. Below is a summary:. Turns your Xbox360 into a PVR; It's dependent on what service provider you have; integrates seamlessly with all ...
SolSie.com / The Lighter Side... - http://solsie.com

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Concurrent VOD revenues rise sequentially in Q2, but dip year-over ...
Concurrent Computer Corp. said overall revenues in fiscal Q2 were driven by growth from its video-on-demand (VOD) product line.
Broadband-Today News & Analysis - http://www.broadband-today.com?nid=2907

Asia Pacific Leading Digital Home Markets
By David H. Deans(David H. Deans)
... to broadband for faster Internet access, these end users will eventually understand the benefits of the connection and become willing to consume more broadband applications such as online gaming, pay TV, VoD, and multimedia content. ...
Digital Lifescapes | by David H. Deans - http://dhdeans.blogspot.com/index.html

"Over The Top:" Five Key Take-Aways for Executives
By shelly@palmer.net (Shelly Palmer)
(For example: NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, Discovery, ESPN, assorted VOD offerings, etc.) The IP-provisioned part of the service also operates inside a "walled garden" or private network until the data needs to travel over the public Internet. ...
Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer - http://advancedmediacommittee.typepad.com/emmyadvancedmedia/

LG Mobile Phones and Verizon Wireless Announce the Mobile TV
By MobileBulletin
The company is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) and Vodafone (NYSE and LSE: VOD). Find more information on the Web at www.verizonwireless.com. To preview and request broadcast-quality video footage and ...
Mobile bulletin - http://www.mobilebulletin.org

Instructions from your parting Pastor
By pastor.george
Kumi ori, Ki va orech uch'vod Adonai alayich zarach. In fact both Karen Davis and Ted Pearce have songs out with that theme. As I close I leave you with that thought ARISE – SHINE – YOUR LIGHT – JESUS – IS ON YOU AND IN YOU! ...
Messianic Mayhem - http://blog.nehemiah-center.org



Friday, 26 January 2007

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VOD Revenue Boosts Concurrent in Fiscal 2Q
Broadcast Newsroom - Newport Beach,CA,USA
By AP. The company said revenue rose to $17.1 million from $14.8 million in the first quarter of fiscal-year 2007, a 15.9% gain. Video-on-demand revenue ...

Canal Play launches copy-once VoD service
Telecom Paper (subscription) - Houten,Netherlands
Canal Plus VoD subsidiary Canal Play said it has launched France's first "definitive downloading" service, which allows customers to buy a film online and ...

MuchMusic gets Amp'd for VoD
C21Media - London,England,UK
NEWS BRIEF: CHUM's youth music channel MuchMusic has signed a two-year exclusive deal with US-based Amp'd Mobile to deliver branded Much VoD content across ...

Top IPTV Providers
Daily IPTV - San Francisco,CA,USA
Integration of Internet-based content, a wide variety of VOD content, and a user interface that is intuitive and allows users to really personalize and ...

EU study predicts 400% growth in online content revenue
E-consultancy - London,UK
European digital VOD distribution will rise from £20 million in 2005 to £800 million, £659 million of which is expected to be from online VOD. ...

Swiss Hawk AG Acquires Shareholding in Scandinavian Digital Media ...
PR Newswire UK (press release) - London,UK
6% in Horse Creek Entertainment AB (publ), the owner and promoter of HomeTV, which is fast becoming a leading Scandinavian provider of Video on Demand (VOD) ...
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Cable VOD Poised to Dominate Home Video
By Dennis L. Haarsager
While digital downloading of movies and broadband video in general have garnered a great deal of attention, cable VOD is likely to be the most common way consumers view movies at home in the near future, an analyst report from ...
Technology360 - http://technology360.typepad.com/technology360/

Storing Stuff, Part 2
By Mari Silbey
Setting aside SlingCatcher for the moment and other Web-to-TV technologies, you can either watch a program stored on your DVR or access VOD content stored on remote servers. As VOD content grows and starts to include HD and mobile TV ...
Zatz Not Funny! - http://www.zatznotfunny.com

Comment on "Total Access" helps Blockbuster finally emerge as a ...
I personally feel NetFlix new attempt at VOD is a joke, kind of a hail Mary pass trying to deflect the Total Access juggernaut. Perhaps in 4 or 5 years NetFlix's VOD might have potential as average Internet connection speeds increase ...
Comments for Compete Blog - http://blog.compete.com

VOD--cable or internet?
By qualiacapital
Although the cable VOD business is currently small, the report says it is the most viable option for two reasons. One, as HDTV enters the mainstream, cable already has the channels in place. Given that most consumers don't have an HD ...
theQview - http://qualiacapital.blogs.com/theqview/

The Future of Children's Television?
By fusenumber8(fusenumber8)
The kicker is the sudden surge in Video On Demand (VOD) these days. Rather than wait around for the program they want, parents are increasingly just purchasing the programs they want to watch, when they want to watch them. ...
A Fuse #8 Production - http://fusenumber8.blogspot.com/index.html



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France Telecom: 'More IPTV, Please'
Light Reading - USA
Benjamin Schwarz, the carrier's international IPTV projects manager who has helped France Telecom roll out Orange TV services in five countries, ...
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IPTV has long way to go
Frederick News Post (subscription) - Frederick,MD,USA
Internet appliances can be hooked up to a TV set or software can be loaded on to laptop or handheld computers to watch IPTV. ...

WSJ: Microsoft Software To Blame For AT&T IPTV Delays
Telecommunications Magazine - Norwood,MA,USA
AT&T executives have made it clear that delays in the IPTV service were purely a result of software kinks and not network architecture problems. ...

New IPTV news via IPTV-Anchor.com
Platinax - Clackmannanshire,Scotland,UK
A new IPTV news hub - http://iptv-anchor.com - allows anyone to distribute news captured on their cell phone or digital camera. ...
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AT&T to ramp up IPTV's expansion
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
CEO says new U-verse service is working better than expected, and the company plans to push IPTV more aggressively this year. By Marguerite Reardon ...
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Ofcom Demands Rethink On BBC IPTV
Platinax - Clackmannanshire,Scotland,UK
Ofcom, the media regulator, has asked the BBC to review its plans for an on-demand IPTV service, due to concerns that it could damage rival commercial ...
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Florida LambdaRail OSTN Unite To Provide IPTV to Florida Universities
Educational, Foreign Language and Student-Produced Programming Available to FLR-linked Universities, Research Institutions: Florida LambdaRail, LLC (FLR) today partnered with Open Student Television Network (OSTN) to deliver IPTV to ...
Supercomputing Online - http://www.supercomputingonline.com

Xbox 360 IPTV Interview - PVR functions on the way
By Chris Tew
The Xbox 360 IPTV service is not going to be something like getting YouTube videos on your PC but a service that is more familiar to the cable and satellite TV services that we have now. Sarchell and Penello talk about downloadable ...
PVR Wire - http://www.pvrwire.com

IPTV: The Future of Television?
By ewriter
What are the pros and cons of IPTV? Let's consider... The long tail effect. ... What about you? Do you watch TV via the Internet? Or maybe you use a TV tuner card on your computer - the step before full digital Internet TV/ IPTV.
VoIP Now - http://www.voipnow.org/

AT&T Delays Rollout of Its IPTV Service Due to "Glitches" in ...
By Peter D. Csathy(Peter D. Csathy)
AT&T had already begun to offer its new IPTV service in 11 US markets. AT&T CFO Rick Linder discounted concerns about this ... 7 major telecom companies worldwide rely upon Microsoft technology to power their own IPTV services. ...
Digital Media Update - http://digitalmediaupdate.blogspot.com/index.html

AT&T Confirms Software Snags in IPTV Rollout
s U-Verse IPTV-driven service bundle, as first reported in xchange magazine and xchangemag.com. In an earning calls Thursday, AT&T executives cited software as being a reason for the telco's service deployment, which after being ...
xchange - http://www.xchangemag.com/



Thursday, 25 January 2007

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Oceanic Time Warner Cable First To Debut Concurrent's MediaHawk ...
broadcastbuyer.tv (press release) - London,UK
Oceanic Time Warner Cable has chosen Concurrent's newest and most innovative product, the MediaHawk 4500 On-Demand platform, for the expansion of VOD ...
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3G and its development in Vietnam
VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi,Vietnam
VOD allows S-Fone subscribers to watch TV and e-TV programmes on their cell-phones. Users may watch them in 2 ways: download, and live streaming or ...

Netflix still needs internet VOD
Blogging Stocks - USA
It is hard to imagine that with cable VOD and download services from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and a host of companies like ...
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Cablevision Launches iO International
World Screen News - New York,NY,USA
BETHPAGE, January 25: iO Cablevision Systems Corp. has launched iO International, an array of international channels and VOD services bundled into nine ...
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APT Worldwide Secures Deals For Ultimate Battles Series
World Screen News - New York,NY,USA
BOSTON, January 25: APT Worldwide has secured broadcast, DVD and VOD deals for the 3x1-hour high-definition docudrama series Ultimate Battles in Russia, ...

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Digital Cable And Shifting Devices: Not Part Of The Ultimate Solution
By Ctreff(Ctreff)
What these figures suggest to me is that more homes will have broadband than a DVR, and the shift to IP-based content delivery would mean that online VOD services would increase, negating the need for a DVR. Additionally, if the system ...
Internet TV Today - http://internettvtoday.blogspot.com/index.html

Ofcom: BBC should rethink VOD plan
British regulator Ofcom has ordered the BBC to reconsider its plans for an on-demand, broadband TV plan, which sees BBC programming running simultaneously online as on television. Ofcom noted that: "There is evidence that certain ...
FierceIPTV - http://www.fierceiptv.com/news

3G And Its Development In Vietnam
By Mike Weston
VOD allows S-Fone subscribers to watch TV and e-TV programmes on their cell-phones. Users may watch them in 2 ways: download, and live streaming or streaming. Or users can turn their cell-phones to MP3 players when taking advantage of ...
Chao-Vietnam - http://chao-vietnam.blogspot.com

UTStarcom Wins IPTV Contract in China
By TVover.net
The service is expected to offer up to 80 channels of live, broadcast television; 24-hour time-shifting capability; approximately 10000 hours of video-on-demand (VOD) content; and valued-added services including karaoke and gaming.
TVover.net - http://www.tvover.net/

Cable VOD Poised To Dominate Home Video, Analyst Report Says
By David Kaplan
While digital downloading of movies and broadband video in general have garnered a great deal of attention, cable VOD is likely to be the most common way consumers view movies at home in the near future, an analyst report from ...
- http://www.paidcontent.org



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AT&T to ramp up IPTV rollouts
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
CEO Ed Whitacre said new U-verse service is working better than expected, and the company plans to push IPTV more aggressively this year. ...
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Helius Unveils MediaSignage 3.0 For Corporate IPTV Communication ...
All Headline News - USA
As the Digital Signage networks move to IPTV platforms, Helius is uniquely positioned to become a major player in the transition. ...
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1-2-1VIEW To Showcase Low-Cost IPTV Digital Signage System At ISE 2007
All Headline News - USA
Amsterdam, Netherlands (AHN) - One of the features of this year's Integrated Systems Europe 2007, will be the IPTV digital signage system from leading IPTV ...
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E-Commerce Firm, Orbit, Enlists IPTV Business Technologies Advice
Cheap Web Hosting Directory (press release) - South Pasadena,CA,USA
Tv Canada Inc., in connection with completing due diligence on partnering and deploying IPTV business and IP technologies in China, have retained Deacons to ...

InfoValue and Amino Team to Provide Advanced IPTV Services
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... experts in providing innovative, high-performance video-streaming platforms and solutions, today announced that Amino, leading IPTV platform supplier, ...

AT&T to Ramp up IPTV Deployment
TVover.net - St. Louis,MO,USA
Once again confirming AT&T's commitment to their network implementation, Whitacre stated, "We're committed to IPTV in a fiber-to-the-node network. ...

Eagle Broadband Receives IPTV Set-Top Box Patent
Market Wire (press release) - USA
... network access and theft of digital content in hotels, condominium buildings and local cable companies that provide IPTV cable television services. ...

Iskratel Partners for IPTV Package
Light Reading - USA
PARIS -- TVoDSL 2007 -- Slovenian vendor Iskratel Telekomunikacijski sistemi doo is the latest equipment vendor to piece together an IPTV system package for ...

Verimatrix Presents its Content Security Expertise to Emerging ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
WHAT: Panel: "Overcoming Barriers and Hurdles for a Successful IPTV Deployment." Steve Oetegenn will present with customer On Demand TV out of Japan to ...

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AT&T to ramp up IPTV rollouts
By Refrax
http://news.com.com/2100-1037_3-6153354.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news i wonder if i can feed the AT&T IPTV directly into a media center PC?
Channel 9: The Coffeehouse - http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=15

Eagle Broadband Receives IPTV Set-Top Box Patent
By TVover.net
The company's recently patented technology (US Patent 7159044) virtually eliminates the risk of unauthorized network access and theft of digital content in hotels, condominium buildings and local cable companies that provide IPTV cable ...
TVover.net - http://www.tvover.net/

Nortel Looking for IP-TV Acquisitions
By Mark Evans
After writing about a speculated asset swap between Alcatel and Nortel last week, LIghtReading is reporting today that Nortel is planning several IP-TV acquisitions as part of an aggressive strategic focus on the telecom video market. ...
All Nortel, All the Time - http://nortel.wordpress.com

CES 2K7: Xbox 360 IPTV live demo
By doublespy
MS execs show & tell how IPTV works on 360.
GameVideos Latest 10 videos - http://www.gamevideos.com:80

Microsoft's new IPTV friends
By Om Malik
Magyar Telekom of Hungary, Slovak Telecom of Slovakia and Beijing Netcom of China are the latest telecoms to sign-up for Microsoft's IPTV platform, bringing the total to 17 phone operators using Microsoft's platform to deliver IPTV. ...
GigaOM - http://gigaom.com



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My moon shot
By Martin Veale
Set the oven using these keystrokes: \mstv.dinn.//08.5min@50%heat//. You then enter: ms//start.cook_dindin/yummy\ /yumyum:-)gohot#cookme. If you have a Mac oven, insert the dinner and press start. 3. The oven will set itself and cook ...
Martin Veale - it's my world... - http://martinveale.blogspot.com




Wednesday, 24 January 2007

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Agilent Technologies Selected for Alcatel-Lucent's IPTV Test and ...
PCB007 (press release) - Seaside,OR,USA
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced that Alcatel-Lucent has chosen Agilent as a formal test and measurement (T&M) partner for its IPTV ...
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Sources: Nortel Planning IPTV Acquisitions
Light Reading - USA
Experienced IPTV executives, who requested anonymity, say the Canadian giant has decided the only way to make any headway in the IPTV market, one of the key ...

Juniper Networks and Intelliden to Enhance IPTV and Multiplay ...
WebWire (press release) - Atlanta,GA,USA
This partnership with Intelliden is an excellent example of the unique capabilities enabled by Juniper's open approach to IPTV and multi-play service ...
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Who wants their IPTV -- and why?
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
If you're like a lot of folks, you're probably thinking IPTV is just a tad overhyped: Service providers from AT&T to BT to India's Reliance Infocomm have ...
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BBC Ordered to Rethink IPTV Plan
BusinessWeek - USA
Media watchdog Ofcom has demanded a rethink of the BBC's plans for an on-demand IPTV service, saying the launch could hurt rival commercial services. ...

Springdale Council Votes for IPTV
Arkansas Business Online - Little Rock,AR,USA
The Springdale City Council voted 8-0 Tuesday night to approve an agreement with AT&T to provide television services to residents via IPTV, ...

Handheld test set checks IPTV over VDSL2
Electronics Talk (press release) - UK
Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering has developed the first handheld test set to support IPTV and HDTV over a standards-based VDSL2 test module. ...
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Arcor to present new IPTV service at CeBIT show
Telecom Paper (subscription) - Houten,Netherlands
German fixed-line operator Arcor will present its new Arcor TV IPTV service at CeBIT 2007, reports teltarif.de citing an announcement made by the company at ...

Intelliden Launches IPTV Provisioning Product
techrockies.com - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
Colorado Springs-based Intelliden announced that it has launched a new solution for managing the provisioning of next generation services, including IPTV, ...

UTStarcom Expands IPTV Leadership in China With New Contract in ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
"UTStarcom continues to build on its leadership in the IPTV market in China and this contract is further validation of the strength, reliability and ...
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Juniper Networks and Intelliden to Enhance IPTV and Multiplay ...
Juniper Networks and Intelliden to Enhance IPTV and Multiplay Service Delivery http://digital50.com/news/items/CT/2001/07/14/20070124005327/juniper-networks- and-intelliden-to-enhance-iptv-and-multiplay-service-delivery...
- http://digital50.com/news/

Re: IPTV Recording: No Sound. Audio codec problem?
Hello Nate, everyone, I was having a similar problem. Using MythTV, some of my IPTV channels were in spanish and not in portuguese as I was getting.
- http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/

Bharti Airtel to launch DTH & IPTV services
By TV & Radio Sri Lanka(TV & Radio Sri Lanka)
The DTH and IPTV services will be rolled out in India initially however it is yet to be seen whether the Airtel-Sun DTH service will be made available in Sri Lanka and whether their IPTV service will be also available here. ...
TV & Radio Sri Lanka - http://tvradiosrilanka.blogspot.com/index.html

Irdeto Teams up with LG-Nortel for IPTV
Irdeto Korea forged alliances with LG-Nortel, Alticast and Kaon Media in conditional access technolo...
Telecoms Korea - http://telecomskorea.com

Set up multicasting/ iptv lab
Forum: sys.cisco Posted By: smokejo@googlemail.com Post Time: 01-24-2007 at 03:51 PM.
VoIP Forums - http://www.voipinside.net



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Lab Rats TV Show
By webmaster
Pretty soon you'll be able to watch the Lab Rats from the comfort of your home. We will perform a bi-weekly show featuring sketch and improv on the local MSTV channel 30. Filming is to begin in February. Stay tuned for more info!
Lab Rats Comedy - http://www.labratscomedy.com