IPTVision > GigaOM, 31.10.2006: Is there an IPTV boom in the making?
[eMedia News] by Om Malik: "After many delays1, Swiss phone incumbent, Swisscom finally launched2 a rudimentary form of their Microsoft-based IPTV system. Bluewin TV, as it is called is promises 100-plus3 TV channels, 70 radio channels, and a whole slew of services."
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[Digitaltv-weblog.com] The Digital TV Weblog: Main Page - IPTV, Video on Demand, Streaming TV: To me these last few months have been interesting as we watch TV networks using broadband video to bypass traditional television distribution providers (local television stations and cable). The Chicago Tribune points out that there also is an open question of whether these owners of content should or should not also bypass the Internet portal sites (Google, MSN, Yahoo).
[Btelevisions.com] IPTV - Televisions Blog: plans to create a royalty-free, interoperable DRM technology, independent of any specific hardware or operating systems which focuses on the concept of a user being given access to content, rather than one specific device being authenticated. This is something that may come more easily to Sun, since it can rely on the Liberty Alliance initiative which is was also behind, for allowing a single copy of a persons identity to act as a trust source for other services, without having to reveal identities to other services.
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