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[FierceIPTV] BNS touches on interactive TV shopping app - FierceIPTV: The future of interactive TV was one of the themes of last month's IPTV World Forum North America event in New York City, and attendees need to look no further than the conference vendor exhibits to get a glimpse of interactive tools that they can leverage today. One of those tools was BNS Touch, an interactive TV shopping application from Hong Kong-based Broadband Network Systems (BNS).

[Carl Weinschenk] Telco TV: What's Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander | Blogs ...: The move can be seen as payback for the cable operators' similarly successful assault on their the telco's core voice business, which began about a decade ago. These two mutual forays -- telcos into video and MSOs into voice -- have created a brave new world of generalist providers capable of doing a good job of delivering three or four communications platforms.

[TVover.net] 64 Million IPTV Subscribers Forecasted by the End of 2012 - TVover.net: However, mobile operators have shown their interest in seizing a piece of the market while satellite TV providers are also complementing their core services with fixed-line offerings. The future of pure-play providers appears limited, as the credit crunch places further pressure on consumers to seek the most cost effective way of obtaining the services they need.

[Freeband Interactive] 64-million IPTV subscribers by the end of 2012 | Interactive ...: IPTV and digital TV services: IPTV has emerged as a viable fourth platform for digital TV services driven by telcos' desire to deploy triple-play services in order to reduce customer churn levels and boost ARPU. However, moving into the TV sector is an essential step if telcos are to retain eminent players in the communication and entertainment sector.

[contentSutra.com] I&B Says Yes To IPTV Over Cable TV | contentSutra: Considering that there is an FDI handicap of 49% for cable operators compared to 74% for Telco’s and ISP’s, they have given the cable industry the headstart. The Bureau of Indian Standards is supposed to standardize set-top box specifications, would be interesting to see if they keep it open, effectively allowing any service provider to plug-n-play instead of a proprietary walled garden infrastructure.

[Untitled] IPTV :: Communications Technology: Although most large systems are already delivering IP-based video to the edge of the network, at that point edge quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) modulators associated with the cable modem termination system (CMTS) use MPEG to transport the video over the last mile to a cable set-top, Franz explained.

[FierceIPTV] Cast an eye on small cable TV operators - FierceIPTV: The National Cable TV Cooperative (NCTC), which may be to rural cable TV operators what the National Rural Telephone Cooperative is to their telco counterparts, held its NCTC Independent Show last week in GrapeVine, Tex., near Dallas. According to people who have attended, it's a down-home event with family-oriented activities, but one that lures top technology executives and other officials from the nation's small cable TV firms.

[Digital Media Buzz] IPTV Message is Strong: Bring It | Digital Media Buzz: IPTV enables video stream to be received and displayed through a series of Internet Protocol packets. The deep pockets of telecommunications companies such as AT&T and Verizon are leading the way, increasingly rolling out their services in more markets with the promise of a lag-free, high-resolution experience.

[Fox Video Blog] Bharat Book Bureau Promotes New Report on Iptv Applications ...: IPTV Applications - Enhanced Television Applications as a Battleground for Customer Loyalty represents a detailed strategic guide and insider view of the current market changes in the clash between the New Media Titans. IPTV Ecosystem Definition.

[Jeff Vinson's IPTV Blog] HYBRID Set Top Boxes for IPTV « Jeff Vinson's IPTV Blog: Hybrid Set Top Boxes for IPTV allow smaller telcos (ILECs)  the ability to launch IPTV services faster and with lower headend costs than launching a complete digital service with local and national channels.  The Hybrid STB is a combo box with inputs for local free-to-air video channels (ATSC or cable) and an Ethernet or wireless connection for subscribed IPTV channels.  They also allow Over The Top (OTT) broadcasters a box for their niche sporting or expat content – cricket and football matches, Bollywood or Nigerian movies and rebroadcast native language TV over IP.

[Unfiltered] TWC wards off telco, Web competition | Unfiltered: Bewkes also said TWC will launch its 4G WiMax service in partnership with Clearwire in four cities before the end of the year. Bewkes said that TWC subscribes to the camp of thought that wireless and wireline businesses are intertwined together and the two complement each other, albeit with their own unique features. TWC partnered with Clearwire because it realized that wireless will not be able to beat wireline in speed or throughput anytime soon, he said.

[BuddeBlog] BuddeBlog » Blog Archive » Healthy Czech telco market ready for ...: An open, export-driven economy with Germany as its main trading partner, the Czech Republic grew by over 6% annually from 2005 until 2008 when the global financial crisis and the resulting drop in demand for Czech exports in Western Europe saw export growth turn negative followed by real GDP growth during 2009. To its credit, domestic financial markets are relatively healthy, with low exposure to sub-prime securities and structured financial products and falling interest rates in response to lower inflation expectations for 2009. 

[Jouielovesyou's Blog] IPTV « Jouielovesyou's Blog: There, rates of the cable companies dropped down substantially when the telcos entered the competition when the trial of the product has started. You will notice that telcos are the most aggressive players on this field because they are the ones who realize its effectiveness and everything good about this technology.

[GhostStorm] GhostStorm » Blog Archive » Revolutionary New Games-On-Demand ...: Playcast Media System and Hot, the Israeli cable network, today announced a large scale pilot launch of its groundbreaking new Playcast service, which allows TV viewers to play high-end video games, on demand, on their existing set-top-box with no lags or latency. During the pilot phase the system will be tested at full capacity on a live cable network, and feedback will be gathered from users on both the portal user interface and the incredible gaming experience itself.

[HomePNA Blog] HomePNA Blog: AT&T 2Q U-verse Results Just In: The lesson from the significant increase in telco/IPTV subscribers over the past few years is that consumers choose to switch service providers for a variety of reasons and not necessarily to get that one “killer application”. When asked why they plan to switch providers for television services (among other services), consumers show a variety of churn triggers.

[BuddeBlog] BuddeBlog » Blog Archive » Latin America promising market for ...: The new BuddeComm Report Latin American Convergence, Pay TV and Digital Media Market covers developments in the Convergence, Pay TV and Digital Media Market of Latin America and the Caribbean The countries covered in this report include: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Venezuela, and the small Caribbean island nations. 

[iLocus] GoBackTV's solution for IPTV-over-Cable (iLocus): A DOCSIS core is an order of magnitude more expensive than a downstream QAM, and has a limited throughput. So, if you send video through a CMTS core, you quickly eat up its throughput capacity, but leave it underutilized in terms of packet processing, upstream handling, and cable modem management.

[PR Hub] Light Reading China to Launch TelcoTV Asia '09 in Shanghai in October: “TelcoTV Asia will have all the unique benefits of Light Reading’s events such as TelcoTV in North America (Nov. 10 to 12 in Orlando, Fla.) including top-notch analyst presentations from Light Reading’s research arms, Pyramid Research and Heavy Reading, combined with leading service provider and industry speakers from China and the region,”

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