IPTVision > February 13, 2010

What exactly IS IPTV (television over Internet Protocol)?

[Internet Provider Directory] Heydon talks about the issues that have faced SBC, a telco in the USA that is using IPTV from Alcatel and Microsoft to wage combat against the leaching of triple play cable competition. (The SBC IPTV offering is expected to light up at .

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January 21, 2010

Internet Served TV versus Cable and Satellite TV

[AllPCDrivers.org] Might have a shiny new microsoft media software running on the STB's but even that is limited to what is already out there. No start at show 5 mins before broadcast and 5 mins after ending?

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December 24, 2009

News In Brief: Vodafone, Apple, Microsoft, Pacnet, Cable&Wireless ...

[Telecom News on 4G, Wimax, Carrier Ethernet, IPTV, mobile apps and OSS/BSS | Telecoms Europe] Mark Anderson predicts a big remote-computing service disaster, lost momentum for Microsoft, and growth in consumer payments for online news content

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December 05, 2009

Motorola and Microsoft Mediaroom for IPTV « Media Experiences 2 Go

[Media Experiences 2 Go] Logo Microsoft Mediaroom Motorola has worked in conjunction with Microsoft for many IPTV deployments, both in providing IP set-tops and in doing back-office integration with Microsoft Mediaroom and Motorola's CCE software.

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November 12, 2009

Calix to Demonstrate Advanced IPTV Applications for the Microsoft ...

[TVover.net] Calix will also demonstrate an advanced home entertainment experience enabled by Microsoft Mediaroom for Xbox 360 and Cisco set-top box consoles, across its Unified Access Infrastructure. This powerful home entertainment experience features content access and control across the home network, including broadcast, on-demand, recorded, and streamed content, as well as gaming, music, and digital photography assets.

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September 12, 2009

SiliconRepublic.com: Chip firm S3 in major Microsoft Mediaroom ...

[Silicon Republic - News] Through this relationship with Microsoft, S3 will provide independent professional services tailored to the requirements of the OEMs with the key emphasis on time-to-market. S3 will integrate the Hardware Adaptation Layer from the OEM with the Microsoft Mediaroom client on the STB, bringing the integrated system through all phases of testing required for deployment.

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August 04, 2009

Major boost for Russian IPTV | Broadband TV News

[Broadband TV News] Significantly, Vimpelcom is understood to be in negotiations with Microsoft for the purchase of IPTV equipment, though any deal will have to be at a discounted price to allow the telco to proceed with a major rollout of services across the country.

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June 25, 2009

Microsoft Renames IPTV Platform 'Mediaroom'; Adds PC-TV Media ...

[paidContent.org] Microsoft TV IPTV Edition makes way for Microsoft Mediaroom. With the name change comes a bigger emphasis on multimedia, including in-home sharing of music and photos between PCs and TVs.

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April 21, 2009

Telco IPTV View: Microsoft Adds NPVR to Mediaroom

[Telco IPTV View] In addition, Microsoft announced that the Mediaroom platform has reached nearly 2.5 million subscriber homes worldwide, an increase of more than 1.5 million new connections in the past year. These NPVR functions are important IPTV .

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Microsoft Mediaroom Powers New HD IPTV Service from Canada’s MTS ...

[itvt] –The company announced last week that US incumbent telco, AT&T, whose U-verse IPTV service is powered by the Mediaroom platform, plans to use Microsoft PlayReady content access and protection technology to enable shared content and converged entertainment experiences across its television, broadband and wireless services. As part of the deal, Microsoft says it will add support for PlayReady into the Mediaroom platform, enabling access to PlayReady-based content through AT&T U-verse set-top boxes.

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April 16, 2009

Microsoft Mediaroom Powers New HD IPTV Service from Canada's MTS ...

[InteractiveTV Today [itvt]] --The company announced last week that US incumbent telco, AT&T, whose U-verse IPTV service is powered by the Mediaroom platform, plans to use Microsoft PlayReady content access and protection technology to enable shared content and converged entertainment experiences across its television, broadband and wireless services. As part of the deal, Microsoft says it will add support for PlayReady into the Mediaroom platform, enabling access to PlayReady-based content through AT&T U-verse set-top boxes.

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Posted at 07:02 PM

180Squared Launches "Mediaroom in a Box" IPTV Solution for Smaller ...

[InteractiveTV Today [itvt]] Pleasanton, Calif.-based 180Squared--a company that bills itself as "a team of Microsoft Mediaroom alumni with extensive Mediaroom product and services expertise" (note: Mediaroom is Microsoft's IPTV platform)--announced Wednesday the launch of a Mediaroom solution, dubbed "Mediaroom in a Box," that is geared towards smaller carriers. The company says that, while working with Microsoft to support existing Mediaroom customers, it has also been working towards developing an end-to-end solution that will "help smaller carriers in the US to sharpen their business case around IPTV" and "support Mediaroom as the middleware of choice." "Some new things have been happening in Microsoft recently," 180Squared founder and VP, Amir Littman, said in a prepared statement.

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April 02, 2009

AT&T collaborates with Microsoft to enable shared content across ...

[PegasusNews.com stories] Microsoft Corp. and AT&T announced today a collaborative effort to use Microsoft PlayReady content access and protection technology to enable shared content and converged entertainment experiences across AT&T's TV, broadband and wireless services.

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March 05, 2009

Gametactics.com - Hardware - Xbox 360 - News - Microsoft Shows off ...

[Gametactics.com Latest Articles] The Microsoft TV IPTV Edition software platform enables a best-in-class digital TV service that offers advanced features such as instant channel zapping, a rich and responsive user interface, video on demand with branded video-on-demand storefronts, digital video recording and high-definition television. Some of the world’s largest telecommunications service providers have chosen IPTV Edition as their IPTV software solution, with scale commercial deployments currently under way with AT&T in the United States, BT Group PLC in the United Kingdom, Deutsche Telekom in Germany, T-Online in France and Swisscom in Switzerland.

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February 19, 2009

More Microsoft IPTV deployments in Latin America?

[Digital Set-top Box News] According to TV TELCO Latam, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) could soon add Codetel in the Dominican Republic and PRT (Claro) of Puerto Rico, both part of América Móvil, to its existing Microsoft Mediaroom deployment with Mexico's Maxcom.

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February 10, 2009

Microsoft Gives IPTV a Fresh Start

[16hi-tech77] In an hasty dance to move ahead of the long-gone complications near its Internet protocol conduit (IPTV) middleware, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) enjoy changed the label of the pulpit and added quite a lot of unsullied multimedia submit yourself to.

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Microsoft Milestone: Mediaroom IPTV on Cable Network

[xchange magazine News] Microsoft says Guangzhou Digital Media Group has formally launched Zhujiang Digital, a connected TV service powered by the Microsoft Mediaroom platform. The vendor says this is the first time Mediaroom has been delivered “over a cable network anywhere in the world.”

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January 24, 2009

Navigation Electronics: Microsoft Pushes Broadband TV Technology ...

[Navigation Electronics] "BT and Microsoft helping a ubiquitous trance in sustain of converge entertainment in the dwelling," said Gavin Patterson, kind managing chief of BT Retail. "TV over broadband services will comedy an decisive role in BT's triple-play offering for consumers." Inside Digital Media advanced analyst Phil Leigh tell TechNewsWorld that craving by old-world agree to off box will become a item of the long-gone gratefulness to broadband TV technology.

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January 22, 2009

CES: Microsoft IPTV Software Enables Replays, Restarts

[Untitled] Live Anytime allows viewers to scroll backward in the Interactive Program Guide to watch previously aired programs. Microsoft says these programs also can be made accessible through the service provider’s video on demand library.

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December 25, 2008

AT&T resumes Microsoft IPTV rollout | Microsoft News Tracker

[Untitled] To provide such robust capabilities over the plain copper phone wires connected to most homes, AT&T is using relatively unproven technology known as IPTV, short for Internet Protocol TV. That approach has enabled AT&T to spend only a fraction of the $23 billion Verizon Communications Inc.

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December 09, 2008

AT&T blames Microsoft IPTV software for delays | Microsoft News ...

[Microsoft News Tracker] [...] Back in January, it was reported that AT&T had suspended it’s IPTV program until some problems with Microsoft software were resolved. Now the partners say everything is back on track: AT&T Inc.’s push into cable TV is ramping back up after a pause prompted by glitches that the company says have been resolved with key network software upgrades.

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November 29, 2008

Deutsche Telekom chooses Microsoft for IPTV | Microsoft News Tracker

[Microsoft News Tracker] The contract will enable Deutsche Telekom Group to deliver next-generation television, as well as complementary interactive services and a range of entertainment products over its VDSL broadband networks. Deutsche Telekom will use the Microsoft TV® IPTV Edition software platform to offer these services.

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