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Livestation Want to Bring in More Interactive TV
Livestation is increasing its road towards live TV via the internet with a new plan to drive viewers towards the websites of its partners such as Al Jazeera English, BBC Arabic, BBC World News and BBC World Service radio, Bloomberg Television, C-SPAN.
The new intuitive will highlight the TV stations’ interactive features. Just recently Al Jazeera […]
October 3, 2008
iPlayer goes mobile
Nokia launches its new flagship mobile handset, the N96, today, and as well as impressive photo, gaming and video functionality, users can also run the BBC’s iPlayer through an embedded application.
This allows them to download BBC content for a week.
Nokia also plans to roll out the iPlayer service to its N78, N95 and N96 […]
October 3, 2008
Tilgin Offer Full Service Routing, Streamlining IPTV Connections
Home gateway solutions often lack any real flexibility, especially in the area of multi-play services.
Very often they are hard connected via IP set-tops, not to the home network but to the gateway.
This works reasonably well, but it is not always easy to share content between IP set-tops, PCs and media devices and distribution to […]
October 2, 2008
Sony BMG gets Netvue IPTV
Netvue has installed an IPTV system at the new UK headquarters of Sony BMG Music Entertainment in Kensington, London.
The IPTV system streams live broadcast television channels from Freeview and Satellite using Exterity TVgateway and Pro-Encoder products, distributed across Sony BMG’s local area network. The channels are available for viewing on LCD screens all around […]
October 1, 2008
US Ice hockey Has New Asian TV Home
Hong Kong based All Sports Network (ASN) have acquired the rights to broadcast US hockey throughout Asia.
The deal with The National Hockey League (NHL) gives the company blanket coverage of games on all formats, including HDTV and IPTV, in very large regions of the continent.
There are around 130 games per season, with highlights that […]
October 1, 2008
DS2 Nominated For Prestigious Award
Based in sunny Spain, DS2 is a supplier of high-speed Powerline communications technology.
The company has now received some recognition for its work, in the form of the International Engineering Consortium (IEC) nomination for its InfoVision Enabling Silicon and Component Level Technologies Award.
They have been nominated for their Aitana chipset, a 200Mbps Power line Communication […]
October 1, 2008
Sri Lanka Joins World IPTV Club
The latest member of the IPTV club is the war torn island of Sri Lanka.
The country’s national telecom company, Sri Lanka Telecom, selected UTStarcom to add the hardware to make the system work.
They in turn have farmed out some parts of the end-to-end IPTV solution to companies including Optibase Ltd who will provide […]
September 29, 2008
New Forensic Watermarks Target VoD Piracy
Subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, Cinea, has joined forces with Harmonic and NDS with the intention of creating a new integrated video-on-demand (VOD) solution, which will utilise Cinea’s existing Running Marks watermarking technology, Harmonic’s VOD platform, and NDS’s conditional access solution VideoGuard.
The idea of combing these three components is to produce a highly effective watermarking […]
September 26, 2008
IPTV revenues set to quadruple by 2012
Global subscriptions to internet Protocol television (IPTV) are set to hit 19.6 million by the end of this year, up 64.1% compared to 2007.
New research by Gartner projects IPTV revenues for 2008 to hit $4.5 billion.
This is a huge increase on the 2007 total of $2.7 billion.
Over the next four years subscriptions are expected to […]
September 26, 2008
Will IPTV Ever Be Viable?
‘IPTV Business Models: Profit and Loss in the Telco TV Space’ is the title of a new report from media analysts Screen Digest.
It delves into the future for IPTV in 26 European States.
They see a mad scramble by providers to differentiate themselves from their competitors.
Despite its early promise of a big reduction in […]