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IPTVision > August 31, 2006

IPTV in India

[DigitallyDrunk] Meanwhile Reliance is adopting the safer DTH route until their Microsoft IPTV service stabilizes (that the service has problems is obvious from the problems AT&T's U-verse is facing in its limited rollout in the US).

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MPEG-4 HD IPTV Over DSL

[HDTV Reviews & Information @ HDTV Lounge.Net] Tut Systems will showcase its Astria® content processor (CP) with its new MPEG-4 AVC HD transcoding solution, along with standard definition MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC compression technology. Astria is a carrier class digital headend system favored and used by telco’s worldwide, with more than 160 Tut-powered IPTV systems deployed today.

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August 31, 2006

IPTV in India

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MPEG-4 HD IPTV Over DSL

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August 30, 2006

AT&T Selects HomePNA 3 Technology for In-Home Distribution of AT&T U-verse Services

[SAtechBlog] Last week, San Antonio's AT&T announced the selection of HomePNA 3 technology for in-home distribution of it AT&T U-verse services including AT&T U-verse TV, AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet, U-verse Enabled and, in the future, consumer voice over IP services.

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BCMA IPTV event series

[TechCrunch UK] Following the recent acquistion of HomeChoice by Tiscali and imminent launch of BT Vision, IPTV looks set to become one of THE hot topics in the UK over the next few years. The BCMA are running the following three events: Part 1: IPTV & the Future of Branded Content - 6 Sep 2006 Part 2: IPTV & the Future of Mobile TV - 13 Sep 2006 Part 3: IPTV & User Generated Content - 20 Sep 2006...

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August 28, 2006

VONosphere Webisode #4

[Paul Kapustka's Blog] Topics: Sumner Redstone, Disney and iTunes (and BitTorrent), Qwest's Richard Notebaert, Verizon and Video on the Net.

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IPTV to Surge by 2010

[bTelevisions - Your Televisions Blog] Analysis by research firm eMarketer suggests that IPTV has the potential to shake up the broadcast television and Web-based video industries, but still has a long way to go. At present, IPTV isn’t much of a threat, with about 300,000 subscribers in the United States as of 2005.

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August 26, 2006

HD comes to Manitoba

[Telecom Trends] At first I thought I read the date on the press release wrong. MTS announced yesterday that it has launched HD-TV on its MTS-TV service.

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Permanent Link to "Opinion No. 1 - YouTube’s Value"

[ Thermo[SAT]] Aucun commentaires / No Responses “Opinion No. 1 - YouTube’s Value”

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August 24, 2006

Permanent Link to "YouTube Keeps Growing ”¦ Changing The Concept Of Television Fast"

[ Thermo[SAT]] The most persuasive evidence that YouTube is rewriting TV rules emerged last month when "Nobody’s Watching," a sitcom pilot pronounced dead after failing to find a broadcast home, found a warm reception on YouTube (where it logged a half-million viewings).

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German Sale Could Fund Tiscali’s UK Triple Play; May Complicate AOL Germany’s Sale

[ paidContent.org] So this complicates things for AOL’s plans of selling off its German unit: European telco player Tiscali is considering selling off its German division to fund its UK digital media and triple play operation….Tiscali just bought UK IPTV pioneer Homechoice, in an effort to expand.

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August 22, 2006

BitTorrent influenced Disney's iTunes move, exec says

[Paul Kapustka's Blog] ASPEN, Colo. -- Seeing a high-quality copy of "Desperate Housewives" obtained 15 just minutes after the episode's airing was a seminal moment in Disney's corporate decision to offer parts of its content online (via Apple's iTunes store), said Disney exec Anne Sweeney in her keynote address Monday morning here at the Progress & Freedom Foundation's Aspen Summit.

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StreamWired IPTV, and IPTV in general

[Webby’s World] For a start, StreamWired has streams dedicated to certain shows, but you can’t specifically pick an episode from a certain series and more than often an episode is half way through by the time you connect. CraftyTV was much more on demand, you could select a specific episode, which would begin from the start.

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August 21, 2006

IPTV subscribers to hit 63 million by 2010

[AV zombie] IPTV subscriber levels are expected to top five million in 2006. According to Mark Kirstein, iSuppli’s vice president for multimedia content and services, “The fight to capture the expanding base of IPTV subscribers will put telecom operators on a collision course with existing pay-TV market competitors as they roll-out progressively more sophisticated offerings.”

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FCC Lacks Multicast Muscle, Says McDowell

[Technology360] New FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell put something of an exclamation point on his regulatory independencein a briefing with reporters Tuesday, including making it clear he doesnot think the FCC has the authority to mandate multicast must-carry without clearer direction from Congress.

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August 20, 2006

Local Broadcasting 2.0

[David Cummings | Content Developer] There are now conferences formed around the idea that broadcasting as we know it will soon be history. Should our reliable and trusted neighbor, the local broadcaster, really be worried about their future?

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TechTV Coming Back as UndoTV!

[ Carbonite Life] These personalities include Kevin Rose of Digg, Leo Laporte of TWiT, Patrick Norton and Robert Heron of DL.TV, and many others. Leo Laporte and Chris Pirillo, two former hosts of Call for Help on TechTV, recently came up with the idea to bring back TechTV as a user-submitted video site with much of the content that is similar to what was aired on the television network.

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August 19, 2006

IPTV Middleware Company List Buyers Guide - from www.IPTVMagazine.com

[Iptvarticles.com] Infogate Online's IPTV middleware platform allows service operators to offer a full range of TV-based digital entertainment including video on demand (VOD), TV channels, pay-per-view and more to their broadband subscribers. Enabling telecommunications operators to deliver new value-added, revenue generating services, Infogate Online encourages business growth, helps maximize customer retention and increases competitiveness in the marketplace

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A Practical Guide to Internet Protocol Television (IPTV ...

[Tvstrategies.com] Why an IPTV middleware-applications framework is necessary .4 Requirements Used in the Evaluation of IPTV Middleware-Applications Solutions...43 .

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August 18, 2006

New IPTV Survey: 3 out of 5 Interested, Citing On Demand and Content as Keys

[The Glowria IPTV Blog] A new survey released by corporate and investment banking firm RBC Capital this week found that three in five U.S. consumers would consider cancelling their current cable or satellite subscription in favor of IPTV.

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BT Vision

[HDTV Reviews & Information @ HDTV Lounge.Net] BT Vision IPTV Video on Demand service will be based on Microsoft TV’s IPTV Edition middleware, on Philips custom digital terrestrial/ IPTV set-top boxes with an 80Gb capacity.

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August 17, 2006

Verizon FiOS TV launches multi-room digital recorder

[Interactive TV] Verizon FiOS TV is introducing a multi-room digital video recorder that allows customers to watch recorded programmes in different rooms. It comes with an application that also enables photos and music files stored on a personal computer to be accessed through a television and home entertainment system.

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Fall 2006 VON Buzz

[The Jeff Pulver Blog - Notes, comments and observations] For what it's worth, journalist pals are telling me they are already starting to get meeting pitches from VON vendors...which is (in their words) proof that buzz is already building for Fall 2006 VON. "Sounds like it's going to be big," one said.

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August 16, 2006

Verizon's multi-room DVR stirs the pot, but has some big gotchas

[Mickeleh's Take] Their Home Media DVR has much to recommend it, but also has some significant gotchas. On the plus side: the main room gets a two-tuner high-definition DVR with the ability to stream SD recorded content to two additional rooms simultaneously.

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August 15, 2006

Getting the IPTV Jitters

[Mark's Musings on the Telecommunications Industry] Apparently AT&T is having some problems rolling out its U-verse IPTV service (Light Reading - Video - AT&T Still Has IPTV 'Jitters' - Telecom News Analysis). They are experience a loss of a couple of IP packets every minute which manifests itself as a short screen freeze or some pixelation.

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AT&T IPTV Dealing With Packet Loss Launch As Rollout Looms: Report

[ paidContent.org] AT&T’s Microsoft-powered U-verse is experiencing packet loss problems which show up as “little annoyances” like video stutters, pixillation, even freezes, according to LightReading.

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August 14, 2006

Good Tech, Bad Tech

[Krillr on Computing] An uninformed rant doesn’t need to be posted online, it needs to be thrown in the bitbucket. Start reading digg, slashdot, WSJ, New York Times, Wired, PC Magazine, Popular Science, Popular Mechanics….

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The Realization of Decentralized Media

[Fleeting Thoughts] The big one was the loss of my favorite channel TechTV and the other was the advent of Podcasting. Very quickly my afternoons after school included less TV and more quality podcast time, and by the end of the summer all I watched really was live Auto Races.

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August 13, 2006

IPTV Vendor Directory

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NME Launches High Definition IPTV with Global MediaCast | TVover.net

[Tvover.net] have reached an agreement to launch a new Versatile Multilayer Disc (VMD)-integrated High Definition (HD) IPTV Box offering a complete triple-play solution for digital television in the 4th quarter of 2005. The new IPTV Box will be the first ever to include the versatile functions of receiving broadcast and satellite transmissions, storing and playing films & programs in both Standard Definition (SD) and HD formats.

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August 11, 2006

UK IPTV Player Homechoice About To BE Bought By Tiscali, For $190 Million: Telegraph

[ paidContent.org] HomeChoice, the UK IPTV pioneer, which has been for sale for a while now after running into low adoption numbers, is about to be bought and merged the UK operations of Italian internet giant Tiscali in a complex transaction thought to value it at about $190 million, reports Telegraph.

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New generation of consumers

[Big Picture Advertising] "A new generation of consumers is emerging for whom online is the lead medium and convergence is instinctive." - Ed Richards Ofcom The new report from Ofcom on the Communications Market makes very interesting reading - even if there are 253 pages. The evidence is clear - the world is flat.

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August 10, 2006

US Gov Sells Frequencies Today

[HDTV Almanac: Your source for independent HDTV information from an industry expert you can trust.] Today, the US government hopes to have a little sale and raise $15 billion. What are they selling? Air. Well, to be more precise, they are selling the...

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Permanent Link to "Getting Ready For More ”¦ Bandwidth and Mutation"

[ Thermo[SAT]] As high-speed Internet becomes more of a must-have, some rural residents without a land-line option are turning to satellite service. Also, more people are expected to switch from analog systems to digital TV, while others are going further and signing up for cutting-edge HD service.

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August 09, 2006

Permanent Link to "UK ”¦ Web Use Gaining On Traditional Television"

[ Thermo[SAT]] Web surfing is the main activity, taking up eight hours. Responses from more than 15,000 people to internet polling company YouGov found online games account for almost five hours, and users spend an average of three hours and 26 minutes on email.

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Fall 2006 VON Conference Spotlight: Telephony's IPTV Summit: The Next Generation of Video (Updated)

[The Jeff Pulver Blog - Notes, comments and observations] For a full workshop schedule and additional information, visit www.telephonyonline.com/iptvworkshop. To register for Telephony's IPTV workshop and Fall VON, visit https://secure.pulver.com/von/register.html and enter the Priority Code "TEL2".

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August 08, 2006

IPTV and "TV on the Net" - They are NOT the Same

[The Jeff Pulver Blog - Notes, comments and observations] While consumers need to bring their own broadband, consumers of the broadband Internet should be able to easily view the content available in my guide to TV on the Net, depending upon their geography. Quality of Service on the public internet varies at times, Figure 80% of the time it will be "good enough" but there will be peeks and valleys in the observed service quality.

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WSJ 'gets it' with online video series

[Paul Kapustka's Blog] Any question that Video on the Net is becoming a mainstream business issue was put to rest last week, when the Wall Street Journal blew out the doors...

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August 07, 2006

MTNL Launches Trial IPTV Programme

[Moneycontrol Tech Blog > Personal Tech At Its Best] Lava Kroft on Mobile Phones! Thursday August 03rd 2006, 5:30 pm Filed under: News, Gaming By: Avinash Bali No this isn’t a typo, there’s actually a...

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Tibet Web TV Launched

[GigaOM : On Broadband, VoIP & The Next Generation Internet] The Central Tibetan Administration and Tibetan diaspora have launched Tibet Online, a web television site that will devote most of its coverage to the teachings of the Dalai Lama. However Tibetans inside Tibet may not be able to access the Web television site due to the Great Firewall.

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August 06, 2006

IPTV Guide

[The Tech Confidential Blog] Now that technology exists to deliver television content to almost any device from PCs to PDAs, there's a small but pesky problem getting in the way of consumers enjoying this anytime, anywhere programming. That problem, according to this recent story in PC Magazine, is a comprehensive listing of all the programs available, when and where they can be found.

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Microsoft Weekly Miscellany

[ Microsoft News Tracker] Some of the “smaller” stories of the week that didn’t find a post of their own: Microsoft factoid of the day: Microsoft’s partnership with NBC gives MSNBC.com exclusive online use of NBC news video clips for 99 years ”¦ Online ad industry forms “click measurement” standards group: The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) today announced that they are forming an industry-wide Click Measurement Working Group to create a set of Click Measurement Guidelines. These Guidelines, a joint effort with the Media Rating Council (MRC), will provide the detailed definition of a “click” and the standard against which clicks are measured and counted including the identification of invalid clicks and/or fraudulent clicks.

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August 05, 2006

Microsoft Turns Photo Albums into 3D Worlds

[Moneycontrol Tech Blog > Personal Tech At Its Best] MTNL Launches Trial IPTV Programme Thursday August 03rd 2006, 6:30 pm Filed under: News, Mobile Phones and Telecom By: Jayesh Mansukhani MTNL has...

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IPTV for HDTV

[HDTV Almanac: Your source for independent HDTV information from an industry expert you can trust.] Serious computing power is already built into most HDTVs, and this just takes the next step to eliminate a separate PC. (The limited success of the Media Center PC indicates that people really aren’t warming up to the idea of a PC in their living room.) And the choice of Linux should help keep the costs down;

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August 04, 2006

Google Snags IPTV Executive

[Applian Technologies Blog] Now, OpenTV, an IPTV middleware company, has announced that its CTO, Vincent Dureau, has joined Google at a "senior engineering role." Dureau was responsible for developing OpenTV's key technologies, global business relationships and, in the early days, building its engineering team from scratch. Most interestingly, Dureau took the lead of OpenTV's advanced advertising technologies, even penning a white paper that reads: "We believe that addressable advertising, where specific video ads are targeted to specific audiences will become central to advertising on digital television within the next 5 years...

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Foxtel iQ to allow for future-viewing?

[Under The Rotunda] There's an article in today's Fin Review (not linkable) by Mark Jones that says Foxtel are planning on launching an on-demand serviced. If it eventuates (and it sounds like its a done deal) it would mean viewers could properly time-shift - watching episodes scheduled for broadcast at a future date all in one sitting for example.

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IPTVision > August 31, 2006

IPTV in India

MPEG-4 HD IPTV Over DSL

August 31, 2006

IPTV in India

MPEG-4 HD IPTV Over DSL

August 30, 2006

AT&T Selects HomePNA 3 Technology for In-Home Distribution of AT&T U-verse Services

BCMA IPTV event series

August 28, 2006

VONosphere Webisode #4

IPTV to Surge by 2010

August 26, 2006

HD comes to Manitoba

Permanent Link to "Opinion No. 1 - YouTube’s Value"

August 24, 2006

Permanent Link to "YouTube Keeps Growing ”¦ Changing The Concept Of Television Fast"

German Sale Could Fund Tiscali’s UK Triple Play; May Complicate AOL Germany’s Sale

August 22, 2006

BitTorrent influenced Disney's iTunes move, exec says

StreamWired IPTV, and IPTV in general

August 21, 2006

IPTV subscribers to hit 63 million by 2010

FCC Lacks Multicast Muscle, Says McDowell

August 20, 2006

Local Broadcasting 2.0

TechTV Coming Back as UndoTV!

August 19, 2006

IPTV Middleware Company List Buyers Guide - from www.IPTVMagazine.com

A Practical Guide to Internet Protocol Television (IPTV ...

August 18, 2006

New IPTV Survey: 3 out of 5 Interested, Citing On Demand and Content as Keys

BT Vision

August 17, 2006

Verizon FiOS TV launches multi-room digital recorder

Fall 2006 VON Buzz

August 16, 2006

Verizon's multi-room DVR stirs the pot, but has some big gotchas

August 15, 2006

Getting the IPTV Jitters

AT&T IPTV Dealing With Packet Loss Launch As Rollout Looms: Report

August 14, 2006

Good Tech, Bad Tech

The Realization of Decentralized Media

August 13, 2006

IPTV Vendor Directory

NME Launches High Definition IPTV with Global MediaCast | TVover.net

August 11, 2006

UK IPTV Player Homechoice About To BE Bought By Tiscali, For $190 Million: Telegraph

New generation of consumers

August 10, 2006

US Gov Sells Frequencies Today

Permanent Link to "Getting Ready For More ”¦ Bandwidth and Mutation"

August 09, 2006

Permanent Link to "UK ”¦ Web Use Gaining On Traditional Television"

Fall 2006 VON Conference Spotlight: Telephony's IPTV Summit: The Next Generation of Video (Updated)

August 08, 2006

IPTV and "TV on the Net" - They are NOT the Same

WSJ 'gets it' with online video series

August 07, 2006

MTNL Launches Trial IPTV Programme

Tibet Web TV Launched

August 06, 2006

IPTV Guide

Microsoft Weekly Miscellany

August 05, 2006

Microsoft Turns Photo Albums into 3D Worlds

IPTV for HDTV

August 04, 2006

Google Snags IPTV Executive

Foxtel iQ to allow for future-viewing?

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