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Motorola secures deal with BT Vision
Motorola has secured a contract to supply BT Group Plc with set-top boxes for its BT vision, on-demand entertainment service.
The BT Vision service provides digital TV and pay-per-view video over a broadband connection, to consumer electronic devices such as TVs. BT is also planning to make the service available on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 games […]
January 7, 2008
BT Vision and Microsoft partner for Xbox IPTV
Microsoft Corp and BT group are entering into a partnership to bring BT Vision’s IPTV service to Microsoft’s Xbox 360 games and entertainment consoles.
Through the partnership, which was announced at the CES event in Las Vegas, BT broadband customers will be able to receive high-definition gaming, television and movies through the console from the […]
December 7, 2007
BT Vision offers free film rental in ad trial
BT Group’s IPTV service, BT Vision, has launched a trial of a new service which offers customers free rental of 3 films from the BT Vision Download Store, in return for watching targeted advertisements.
The company worked with Intel Corporation, Hiro Media and FremantleMedia to develop the trial.
Customers are asked to download free video software […]
November 21, 2007
BT Vision on track for 100,000 subscribers this year
BT Vision, the broadband video service, is ahead of schedule on achieving its target of 100,000 customers by the end of 2007. The company has already signed up this number of customers, although installations stand at just 70,000.
The company is currently gaining around 5,000 customers each week and expects to have signed up at […]
November 12, 2007
Soccer helps build BT Vision’s customer base
BT Group Plc attributes growth in uptake of its BT Vision IPTV service to its coverage of English and Scottish soccer.
BT Vision, a hybrid service which provides standard TV channels over-the-air and on-demand content over broadband, gained 20,000 customers from its launch at the end of 2006 to the end of June 2007.
However, since […]
November 8, 2007
BT Vision secures 60,000 customers
BT had registered 60,000 customers for its BT Vision IPTV service at the end of the 2007 third quarter, in line with its plans to roll out the service.
The launch of BT Vision Sport packages helped the company achieve a tripling in customer numbers.
BT plans to invest £100m on BT vision this year. […]
October 29, 2007
BT Vision launches ‘On’ magazine
BT’s IPTV service, BT Vision, is launching a new magazine for customers, with the title ‘On’.
The magazine will showcase BT Vision’s programme highlights and will also provide information and tips to help customers use the service to best effect.
On will be published twice a month, with the first issue due to be published […]
October 10, 2007
BT seeks support for New Media 2
BT Vision, is demonstrating a new TV concept at the 2007 Broadband World Forum in Berlin.
The concept, called New Media 2 (NM2), allows users to give feedback on a drama series via the interactivity of an IPTV service.
A TV producer can then develop the storyline of the series, based on the information received.
A […]
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 […]
August 22, 2007
BT Vision selects DS2 chips for IPTV service
BT Vision has selected DS2 to supply Universal Powerline Association (UPA) chips to enable the self-installation option of its IPTV service.
DS2 is a leading supplier of UPA powerline products, which were selected by BT Vision because of their ability to process at a maximum gross speed of 200Mbps and provide high quality IPTV viewing […]