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Chapter 4: Getting Started

[Cisco.com] The first time you launch IP/TV Viewer after installation, prompts appear advising you to enter user information and assign Content Managers (if none have been assigned.) Click OK to enter user information and Content Managers. For more information, see "Entering User Information" subsection within the "Assigning Content Managers" section.

SOFTWARE.MEMPHIS.EDU - The official software resource of the ...

[Ftp.memphis.edu] This is the viewer that will allow you to view the U of M Internet 2 stream.

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June 30, 2006

Chapter 4: Getting Started

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SOFTWARE.MEMPHIS.EDU - The official software resource of the ...

[Ftp.memphis.edu] This is the viewer that will allow you to view the U of M Internet 2 stream.

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June 29, 2006

La situazione dell’E-content nel 2006

[Tecnoetica] Critico anche il discorso di Filippo Rebecchini (FRT, presidente) che ha iniziato dicendo che in Italia di DTT si parla solo in termini di polemica (si riferisce alla questione dei contributi statali al decoder digitale) ma la realtÃ concreta è piuttosto stagnante: switch over sempre piÃ¹ lontano nel tempo (anche per quanto le regioni pilota di Sardegna e Valle D’Aosta), pochi contenuti realmente pensati per la piattaforma, mancata voglia di “switchare” degli operatori televisivi.

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28.06.06

[Iptv Guide] The use of such large amount of addresses has become needful since now-a-days there are a large amount of wireless devices to communicate and each should have a unique Internet Protocol number. It seems that in near future each individual will have more than thousands of devices that should have a identification number contrary to the fact that the computers were the only device that was used to be connected to the internet.

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June 28, 2006

AT&T u-Verse Pricing Now Available

[SAtechBlog] This looks to be a pretty comparable price and if the quality is there it's a good package considering Internet is included. Too bad it's not available out here in the sticks (San Angelo).

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MSN Syndicates CNET Story on IPTV...

[SAtechBlog] MSN syndicated the original CNET story that included this blog...click here to read the news item...

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June 27, 2006

Kasenna Powers Nation’s First MPEG-4 IPTV Deployment

[World Of IPTV] Kasenna, The IPTV Company(TM), today announced that Cavalier Telephone and TV, an innovative provider of telecommunications services serving over 250,000 homes, has gone live with the United State’s first MPEG-4-based (H.264) Broadband TV service, powered by Kasenna’s PortalTV solution. With a complete Triple-Play package including advanced features such as on-screen caller ID, Broadcast TV and Video-on- Demand, Cavalier has immediately moved to the forefront of the IPTV industry.

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Akimbo still in the game

[The TV Weasel] Akimbo’s different - an IPTV play that’s greatest shortcoming was that it required customers to hook up yet another set top box. We’ve already got enough boxes and gadgets hooked up to our TVs.

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June 26, 2006

Over-The-Top Monkey Business

[Technology360] The new party line says Google and Yahoo are cable's real competition in video, not Verizon and AT&T. Then there's the growing cadre of Internet video upstarts like Akimbo, YouTube, and DaveTV.

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TV via net: A better bet than multicasts?

[Digital TV Facts: The Latest | The switch to digital television] Some station owners, more jazzed about delivering programming via the internet, have put multicasting on the back burner: ”¦the Big Four networks and stations for the most part are holding their best content for Web distribution, with some executives saying they believe they can reach more viewers nationwide on the Internet than they can through the TV, since most cable operators only carry a station’s primary signal. “If people are going to put time and energy into creating a channel, at the moment, why not create it for the Internet instead of waiting for multicast?” said a senior executive at a Big Four network who asked not to be identified.

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June 25, 2006

Verimatrix Raises $8M

[ socalTECH - SoCal TechNews - Daily news on high tech in Southern California] The round of funding was led by Crescendo Ventures, and also included participation by prior investors Mission Ventures and Siemens Venture Capital. Verimatrix is developing access control and content protection and watermarking technology for IPTV.

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Mark Schubin digital television memo, 6/23/06

[Technology360] Mark Schubin has posted another in his series of news memos on digital television to the OpenDTV list. It contains a good collection of links on the multicast must-carry story.

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June 24, 2006

New Matrixstream set top box

Matrixstream is now making it's IMX1020 1080P H.264 set top box available for distribution as part of it's end to end IPTV platform. Matrixstream's set top box can deliver video on demand and streaming television channels instantly in up to 1920 x 1080 resolution over any best effort broadband connection through Matrixstream proprietary XMS technology. This is the future of Film and Television in the unlimited movie / channel universe. Here is the Datasheet (PDF, 234k).

Picture: IMX1020 front view

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mPhase Technologies To Showcase its Carrier-Grade mPhase TV+(TM) IPTV Software

[World Of IPTV] mPhase recently announced its TV+(TM) System Release 5.0, which enables service providers to deliver compelling entertainment services and effectively grow their IPTV networks. The new software is specifically designed to help carriers cost-effectively scale the size and scope of their offer with improved management and load balancing features.

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Mixed Signals Expands Board

[ socalTECH - SoCal TechNews - Daily news on high tech in Southern California] Los Angeles-based Mixed Signals, a provider of digital content monitoring systems, said that it has expanded its board. It has appointed Al Nunez of Tandberg Television to its board of directors.

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June 23, 2006

Guest Blogger Backs AT&T's Stance on Ownership of Internet and Video Customers' Account Information

[SAtechBlog] where we both have our day jobs at a San Antonio-based high tech PR firm. Because of Bob's background as a retired military officer, I asked Bob to share his perspective on today's news regarding AT&T's policy that it owned Internet and video customers' account information and could share the data over to law enforcement if needed.

Posted at 04:41 AM

Video Content Protection Firm Verimatrix Gets $8 Million Second Round Funding

[ paidContent.org] The round was led by Crescendo Ventures and included Mission Ventures and strategic investor Siemens Venture Capital. Verimatrix develops pay TV content protection and access control systems, which includes its forensic watermarking technology, VideoMark, and is deployed in IPTV systems.

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June 22, 2006

The Slingbox Rules!

[Canadian Blogs] Well, if you're Stuart MacDonald, you fire up the laptop, connect to Via Rail's Wi-fi network and watch the Holland-Argentina soccer game using a Slingbox. How cool is that?!

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June 21, 2006

"Save the Net" Contest Winner Announced. Round II Now Open to Competition...Your Entry Could Win $5K!

[SAtechBlog] Hey everyone in the San Antonio tech community, and of course the folks at our local telephone company, who spends tons of money in Washington lobbying away... (I think James is in charge of this stuff)

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IneoQuest Announces IQVisionProbe, a Portable IPTV/IP Video Monitoring and Debug Tool for Lab and Field

[World Of IPTV] It meets a service provider’s need for a portable tool that can detect, decode, monitor and debug live IPTV/IP Video streams from lab to customer premise. QVisionProbe combines 10/100 Ethernet network and ASI input connectivity with a built-in color LCD display and three modes of operation including Census mode for multi-stream monitoring, IGMP mode for multicast testing, and System Overview for network stream status and fault management.

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June 20, 2006

IPTV demand to skyrocket

[World Of IPTV] “Service providers in Asia Pacific and EMEA, especially PCCW in Hong Kong and FastWeb in Italy, and independent operators in North America like SureWest, are already experiencing significant IPTV subscriber growth,” noted Jeff Heynen, directing analyst for broadband and IPTV at Infonetics Research.

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Prosumers Start Creating Their Own HD Shows

[Micro Persuasion] Thankfully, a lot of sports programming is. While the US Government mandates that all signals must be broadcast in digital by 2009, there are consumers that are already rushing in to fill the void.

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June 19, 2006

IPTV News

[Convergedigest.com] IPTV Content News ... Harris Polls Tracks Growing Interest in IPTV. 13-Feb-06 ... BT Outlines IPTV Plans Combining Broadband with Digital Terrestrial ...

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BT's IPTV Content Deals: Too Little Too Late? - Digital-Lifestyles ...

[Digital-lifestyles.info] In the week that BT and Sky both saw their triple play offerings potentially trumped by a possible NTL/Virgin ‘quadruple play’, BT chose to release details of its upcoming content deals with BBC Worldwide, Paramount and Warner Music Group.

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June 18, 2006

CED Article Addresses Many of My Readers Questions About Telco vs. Cable Technology and Competition

[SAtechBlog] With all the emails I am getting about technology and competition from the cable industry, fellow blogger and Austinite, David Deans was kind enough to point me to an article in CED magazine that addresses many of the questions and issues that I am getting.

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Kent Nichols on Ask a Ninja

[Daily Vodcasts] Kent Nichols, the creator of AskaNinja.com, talks about the growing popularity of the site and the launch of HopeIsEmo.com in this 6-minute video interview conducted at Vloggercon on June 11, 2006.

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June 17, 2006

Just Got My Cable Bill With My New Pricing

[SAtechBlog] As the result of calling TimeWarner / San Antonio and re-negotiating my cable bill, I just got my statement. Previous balance $146.38.

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Verizon will carry public TV’s multicast channels

[Digital TV Facts: The Latest | The switch to digital television] Under the multiyear agreement, every Verizon FiOS TV system will carry the full digital signal of up to three public television stations within the system’s service area, as well as any additional noncommercial station that does not duplicate programming of another station in the market. The agreement also includes PBS and local public television stations’ HDTV programming and local stations’ digital multicasts.

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June 16, 2006

Telkonet Launches Powerline IPTV Service in NYC

[Digital Media Wire | connecting people & knowledge] - Telkonet, a provider of in-building broadband access over existing electrical wiring, said on Tuesday that it has begun testing its NuVisions Internet television (IPTV) service in New York City. The service delivers traditional cable TV programming, and also allows subscribers to surf the Internet, receive on-demand content and perform a host of Internet-based functions through their TVs.

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Jeff Pulver's Blog Comments on Recent Setbacks Regarding Failed Legislative Actions To Advance Internet Communications

[SAtechBlog] While I may appear to be a cheerleader for AT&T's IPTV platform, you should know that I think last week's legislative failings (perhaps partially funded by AT&T's lobbying cash and muscle?) is a big time, Texas-sized shame.

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June 15, 2006

Microsoft’s IPTV in France ”¦

[SoWeirdProductions] Microsoft’s IPTV platform will make its debut first in Europe, with Club Internet selling the company’s services in France. The technology will allow for a user to watch high-definition TV, two programs at the same time, and record up to 50 hours of video.

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AT&T: ”˜We support multicast must-carry’

[Digital TV Facts: The Latest | The switch to digital television] AT&T supports rules that would give cable channel slots to local digital TV multicast services, according to a senior executive: “We’re more than happy to put this programming on our network,” Robert Quinn, senior vice president for federal regulatory affairs at AT&T, said in a telephone interview. “We support multicast must-carry.” Quinn’s remarks in a Reuters interview on Tuesday would appear to contradict an FCC filing from the company last week, reported in Multichannel News: “It is AT&T’s belief that decisions affecting carriage of programming offered by local commercial broadcast stations should be subject to commercial discussions between content owners and video providers,” the company said in a June 9 Federal Communications Commission filing, adding that such discussions were taking place.

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June 14, 2006

The Fall Of Content’s Kingdom

[ paidContent.org] A white paper by Alexander Cameron of Digital TX in London, about piracy, the failure of the music and movie industry to address customer demand, and how the ages of net neutrality and the big boys controlling the content industry are about to come to their end.

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AT&T raps multicast must-carry

[Digital TV Facts: The Latest | The switch to digital television] Designing the network to accommodate shifting digital-TV signal formats would cost “hundreds of thousands of dollars” per programming stream, AT&T said, adding that the FCC needed to take those costs into account as the agency “considers ways to increase video choice for consumers.”

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June 13, 2006

Permanent Link to "Breaking News ”¦ Canadian Government ”˜Concerned’"

[ Thermo[SAT]] Breaking News ”¦ Canadian Government ”˜Concerned’ 0 | Jon Husband 06/12/06 11:51 IPtv | Open distribution vs. Controlled distribution | Legal framework...

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Microsoft IPTV makes its way to Europe

[Engadget] Deutsche Telekom hopes to bring the same offering to Germany sometime this summer, and Britain's BT Group is planning on Microsoft IPTV later this year. We'll have to wait and see how this Microsoft-flavored tech will fare against traditional TV offerings in Europe, especially now that HDTV is getting underway in England and elsewhere, but it could all come down to price -- which is as of yet unannounced.

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June 12, 2006

Permanent Link to "Scoble On Power of Video Blogs In Business World"

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Beyond broadcasting: IPTV can be local, too

[Digital TV Facts: The Latest | The switch to digital television] In the new world of IPTV, he maintains, local connections””between humans, as well as between wires””can make a world of difference: The Internet television story, even as written here in columns going back as far as the late 1990s, pushed the idea of enabling the aggregation of widely-dispersed viewing audiences, allowing programming to thrive that might not be successful on any local station, much less on the national network. A good example is NerdTV, which wouldn’t attract enough viewers on most PBS stations to even generate a rating, yet when offered as an Internet download, drawing from a global population, makes some pretty good numbers.

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June 11, 2006

Permanent Link to "Changes Afoot In Balance Between Cablecos and Telcos in the USA"

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L.A. Times Covers My Blog....

[SAtechBlog] Times interviewed me two weeks ago and filed today's story. This was well done and very balanced, giving both sides of the story.

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June 10, 2006

GLOBALCOMM VIDEO REPORT

[Paul Kapustka's Blog] REPORT FROM GLOBALCOMM 2006, CHICAGO (Same stuff as earlier report, just testing the Brightcove player.) Like this player? Like the other one?

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France’s Club Internet Will Offer Microsoft TV Edition-Powered Triple Play

[ paidContent.org] The added factor of being one of the first global launches for Microsoft likely means it will be watched very carefully for signs of any problems. The German rollout is scheduled later this summer with BT Group launching in the UK later this year.

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June 09, 2006

Permanent Link to "Breaking News ”¦ CRTC, Canadian Content and Mainstream Television Networks"

[ Thermo[SAT]] Regulators are expected to make Canadian programming a key bargaining chip in the much-anticipated TV review, asking networks to bolster their investments in domestic documentaries and dramas.

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AT&T Plans To Use Lessons Learned From DSL Rollout AS IPTV Launches

[ paidContent.org] AT&T Plans To Use Lessons Learned From DSL Rollout AS IPTV Launches That’s a good thing as anyone who remembers the over-promised, under-delivered early days of DSL can tell you. AT&T can’t afford that kind of marketing hit or the customer service hangover when it comes to IPTV.

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June 08, 2006

NTT Expands IPTV Rollout with TANDBERG MPEG-4 AVC to Support ADSL Customers in Japan

[World Of IPTV] TANDBERG Television’s MPEG-4 AVC transcoders let On Demand TV expand its services and deliver MPEG-4 AVC video and content over NTT’s widespread DSL networks, through bandwidth efficiency gains of approximately 50% from the MPEG-4 AVC technology. Additionally, by adding transcoders to its SkyStream Mediaplex, On Demand TV can convert its MPEG-2 content into high-quality MPEG-4 AVC while preserving picture quality, teletext, subtitling and audio through one all-digital step - allowing it to leverage its current base of MPEG-2 content for distribution over MPEG-4 AVC.

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Will TV’s new rules serve big players or public?

[Digital TV Facts: The Latest | The switch to digital television] The way we watch television for many years to come may be determined by lobbying and rulemaking currently underway in Washington. FCC chairman Kevin Martin, according to several reports, is ready to propose new regulations that would give local stations additional channel slots on cable systems.

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June 07, 2006

AT&T's U-verse Channel Guide Is Easy to Use and Straightforward

[SAtechBlog] There is nothing profound to say about the AT&T U-verse channel guide, other than it's easy to use, straightforward-- and works fast. (Somehow, I have developed a fixation for the fast channel changing capability).

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Quick links for Tuesday, 6 June

[Under The Rotunda] Yahoo7 today launched FuelWatch - a maps mashup that shows real-time petrol prices ReelTime, the VoD provider, has finally announced its delivery...

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June 06, 2006

IPTV prepares for prime time

[The Geekinator] IPTV prepares for prime time June 5th, 2006 IPTV prepares for prime time | CNET News.com Posted in News, Geeking Out, IPTV | No Comments »...

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Permanent Link to "Squeezing More Content Onto the Web"

[ Thermo[SAT]] It’s not likely that advances in digital publishing technology will stop all of a sudden. It IS likely that creating and publishing a wide range of digital content will continue to become easier and easier, and cheaper and cheaper. This is partly what the dust-up over "net neutrality" has been about, and why the battles over changes to intellectual copyright and the ownership and sale of creative content are far from over …

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June 05, 2006

Media Servers on the Rise

[HDTV Almanac: Your source for independent HDTV information from an industry expert you can trust.] My guess is that the Parks Associates estimates will prove to be conservative, though we may see the growth in “personal servers” much like today’s iPods and MP3 players.

Posted at 04:38 AM

Industry Message Boards Are Talking About My Blog

[SAtechBlog] If you would have read the blog..you'd have known that U-verse will have the HD programming, just not in the trial. If you had any insights into the future, you'd also know that ATT will not just leave out those audio upgrades and video upgrades...if they did who would use it when you have other options?

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June 04, 2006

Calif. Assembly passes pro-IPTV bill

[TechEffect: Consumer technology news] In an extremely irregular occurrence, the California Assembly voted unanimously in favor of a bill which would eliminate city-by-city cable franchises. The deregulation of the cable industry would remove a giant hurdle from the path of the telecoms, including AT&T, which plans on spending up to $1 billion in the state on telephone and IPTV services through 2008 (this doesn't include the money it spent on a study to bolster its case), in their attempt to challenge the cable companies with IPTV.

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For IPTV Industry News, See This Site....

[SAtechBlog] retired serial ceo whose historic murder mystery set in the Internet bubble and rubble is serialized online at hackoff.com

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June 03, 2006

Permanent Link to "TV-Type Shows Coming To The Web - Another Example"

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DVR Works...With Limitations (Remember This is a Trial)

[SAtechBlog] I have had several readers ask about the DVR functionality on the AT&T IPTV system. At the present time, and during the trial period, you can't...

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