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Two conferences focusing on telecom/IPTV planned for US
Team Lightbulb, a newly formed conference planning, trade show management, and event management organisation, is arranging the schedules for two conferences in the United States which will focus on telecom and IPTV.
The first conference, Telecom Crash Course: Exploring the IPTV Universe, will be held on 25 October 2007 in New York. Developed by Team Lightbulb, […]
September 10, 2007
Orange to launch IPTV in UK
Mobile phone carrier and ISP, Orange, a division of France Telecom, is planning to launch an IPTV service in the UK by the end of the year, in order to strengthen its UK broadband business.
Orange will offer multi-play packages of broadband, fixed-line and mobile telephony and pay-TV services, becoming the second nationwide provider of IPTV […]
September 10, 2007
Two million IPTV set top box sales from Motorola
Motorola announced at IBC2007 in Amsterdam that it has shipped its two millionth Internet Protocol set top box, within five months of shipping the first. This impressive achievement demonstrates the rapid growth of the IPTV market.
The company has joined the Microsoft Mediaroom Interoperability and Qualification Lab (IQ Lab) for digital video encoders, which is a […]
September 10, 2007
Horizontal IPTV opportunity sought by Samsung
Samsung’s Digital Video Broadcasting representative, John Adam, has called upon platform operators to give manufacturers an opportunity to develop an ever-greater range of devices for their services.
Samsung has recently been awarded a contract by BSkyB to develop receivers for its UK DTH service, commencing with Sky HD.
Speaking at the DVB press conference at IBC2007 in […]
September 7, 2007
Brown confirms crossplatform iPlayer
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has confirmed that the BBC will develop open source versions of its iPlayer software, which is currently only compatible with computers running Microsoft Windows.
Mr Brown was responding to a 16,000-strong online petition on a government website, which called for the on-demand service to be available on a variety of operating […]
September 7, 2007
Consultation on IPTV content control laws in India
The broadcast regulator in India, TRAI, has proposed that the content of Internet Protocol Television channels should be regulated by the same laws that are applicable to the existing television channels.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has issued a position paper, which also observes that both telecom service providers with triple play licences and […]
September 7, 2007
AT&T achieves 100,000 customers for U-verse IPTV service in less than a year
US operator AT&T has broken the 100,000 customers barrier for its U-verse IPTV service milestone less than a year after starting to scale the service into multiple markets. U-verse is offered across nine states, and includes features that are not currently available with any other provider.
AT&T, which is the largest provider of both local and […]
September 6, 2007
BT Vision Sports enabled with Motorola’s VODxchange
Motorola, Inc’s VODxchange encoding capability was used by BT as part of its IPTV solution, helping to successfully launch BT Vision Sport, a next-generation IPTV sports service for UK consumers.
BT Vision Sport represents the first time such unique sports production has been provided in the UK via IPTV. Motorola’s technology was key to its […]
September 5, 2007
Archos announces TV+ to rival Apple TV
Archos, a global consumer electronics hardware manufacturer with an office in Southampton, has announced Archos TV+, a digital set top recorder which is set to rival Apple TV.
Archos TV+ is available in 80GB and 250GB hard disk versions. The device comes with a range of connectivity options including Wi-Fi, USB 2.0, Ethernet and there is […]
September 4, 2007
More than 60 European IPTV services currently available
Screen Digest, a research company which provides access to a vast database of global audiovisual market research information, has reported that more than 60 Internet protocol television services operated across Europe at the end of the second quarter of 2007.
It is predicted that more launches are planned for the second half of the year.
The report […]