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[IPTV News, Events, Jobs, Providers - TVover.net] According to an article in Light Reading, France Telecom is urging IPTV operators to visit their technology labs, adopt a similar ecosystem as theirs, and ramp up IPTV rollouts to help smaller vendors focused on specialized services invest more in research and developmet. Read the full story.
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[Lightreading.com] Light Reading - Video - Telecom Italia Trials IPTV - Telecom News Wire: Microsoft has supplied Telecom Italia with its innovative Microsoft TV IPTV Edition software, which the company is using to test and offer a new generation of for-payment video services and content. Microsoft and Alcatel are working together to supply operators with complete, integrated solutions designed to accelerate IPTV protocol rollout over existing and next generation networks.
[Glowriaiptv.typepad.com] The Glowria IPTV Blog: Research firm Strategic Analytics released survey results demonstrating the rapid adoption rate of digital TV services in Western Europe, as driven by the success of Digital Terrestrial (DTT) broadcasting and IPTV services. They project that by 2010, 77% of households in Western Europe (127 million homes) will be using some form of digital TV.
[Blog.lvlstudio.com] lvl studio blog » A Bouquet of IPTV channels for France Telecoms ...: Lastly, the fact that STB are now more integrator friendly with modern rendering engines supporting HTML and CSS as well as Flash, once a competent developper gets the few subtle difference in the development of IPTV virtual channel (and has access to a development environment, this is probably the biggest hurdle to this day), the virtual channels explosion should follow a path similar to the early internet boom. But then, this will be overshadowed by the fact that the STB will have acces to the full internet, as W3C compliant web pages should display nicely on these boxes (well, as long as the design is TV resolution friendly, not everyone has HD, yet!)
[Maroc-it.com] Maroc IT Blog Telecom » IPTV: Three months ago and right before the World Cup started, Maroc Telecom launched IPTV. So far, I have not read or heard about the number of subscribers nor about feedback by users regarding installation, quality of service and technical glitches. Though the launch was limited to select markets, I wonder how widely it is adopted especially that most TV viewers in Morocco rely heavily on satelitte programming.
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