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 [Telecompaper News] Dreampark delivers TV middleware to Norwegian ISP: These annual subscription plans allow you to log-in to our website and read all the daily news stories published by Telecompaper. The price depends on how far back you want to be able access our archive, which dates back to 1993.

[IPTV Daily] August 18 2008 Daily News: Spain's Telefonica is introducing a new offer to boost take-up of its IPTV service Imagenio, reports Expansion. Customers subscribing to an ADSL service can .

 [Get inked] DNA of IPTV middleware: Some of the Telco trade media have made it a numbers game to determine who is the best provider of middleware for IPTV deployments - but no one is defining the significance of those numbers and if they mean anything. They don’t.

 [Minerva Networks IPTV Blog] Middleware Momentum: As the market accelerates, service providers worldwide are upgrading their legacy IPTV platforms with proven, next-generation solutions from a select group of vendors. This trend is driving rapid consolidation in the IPTV middleware space.

 [TVover.net] Report: IPTV Middleware Spending Spree Expected: Telco IPTV operators in Western Europe, particularly France, Sweden, and Italy, continue to give away their IPTV service to hold on to their broadband subscribers Infonetics' report provides market size, market share, and forecasts for IPTV equipment, including integrated digital headend platforms, video on demand (VOD) and streaming content servers, IP video encoders, universal edge QAMs, IPTV middleware and content delivery platforms, and IP STBs. The report also tracks IPTV, cable IPTV and cable SDV service revenue and subscribers.

 [Satellite TV support forum & Digital TV support forum.] Silverlight surfing: To this one can add TV companies that are through the internet becoming publishers and the traditional newspaper publishers that are increasingly moving towards video. “Media companies that have traditionally been in the B to B market, in selling adverting distributing content to movie theaters, even in sell to e-stores like iTunes are trying to change to become B to C companies as they need to understand consumers much more.”

 [Satpimps] Dreampark to introduce new SVG-ba: The latest version of its Dreamgallery IPTV middleware has next-generation features including live MMS to the TV, mobile PVR, pre-paid, Dreamlets (small ********** objects pushed to one or several STBs using a multicast server) and RSS support. Enhanced network PVR end-user features include Start Over, Historic EPG, Scheduled Recordings, Record Current Event and Time Shifted TV.

 [TVover.net] Content-House Deploys Kasenna IPTV Middleware to Deliver VoD for ...: "The scheme used by Content-House is very popular in Russia" said Guriyanov "and a lot of this comes from the increased competition in IPTV offerings from big operators. Small and mid-size operators have to decide whether to deploy their own IPTV infrastructure or buy readymade services from a service provider like Content-House." Along with key business model issues for all sizes of operators, the keynote presentation will look at how the business model decisions affect the design of cost effective and scalable distributed architecture IPTV systems.

[Brian Loves You] Open Source Middleware for IPTV: There is literally hundreds of commercial, and personal uses for Toroid..  People can use it to do digital signage within their company.  You can stream video and audio to TV’s in your offices, customer service desks, etc.  You can use it at a school to provide educational channels, and at your home as a hobbyist to stream multiple video sources and channels to your TV.

 [Techwatch Tech News: Satellite TV, Cable TV, Digital TV, Home Media and Hardware] Comarch offers IPTV solution for satellite DTH: Comarch’s approach involves IPTV middleware and components provided by leading vendors of CAS/DRM, VoD, Head-end solutions and Set-Top Boxes. Comarch NGTV Middleware can allow operators to provide access to live TV channels and VoD content, as well as third-party interactive TV services, a fully customized user interface and targeted interactive advertisements.

[homepna Blog] The Browser in the Middle: We've seen talk on blogs about IPTV features -- for example, a user comparing DirecTV to AT&T's U-verse stated that while his DirecTV can search for actors, movies and show schedules, U-verse's ubar function provides similar capabilities without requiring you to navigate away from your show. He also likes the fact that he doesn't have to wait for the ubar to load.

 [itvt] Espial Acquires Kasenna: -Motorola to Resell the Espial Evo TV Service Platform. Canadian IPTV middleware provider, Espial, has acquired Kasenna, a US-based provider of IPTV and VOD technologies that has raised $90 million in funding since its launch in 2000, .

 [Editor's Daily Blog] In A Free Land: Developers in the IP-based interactive TV market face tough challenges writing and deploying applications for existing proprietary middleware platforms. To address these developer challenges, Sun and DigiSoft.tv worked together and, .

 [Gudjon's Blog] Recipe for Fast Channel Zapping in IPTV Deployments: If the messaging is passed thru the Zignal server, the delay will be increased at least two times (if the Zignal server architecture does not introduces delay by itself). Notifications could also be transmitted by UDP from the set-top box to the GOP server with the addition of a lightweight client on the box that interfaces with the middleware.

 [shipinhuiyipolycom] IPTV key technology and the current market dynamics analysis: Users through TV set-top boxes and the only way through the PC or terminal to enjoy a wide variety of IPTV business. IPTV is a traditional media will be transformed into a new interactive human technology, its greatest feature is the .

 [Gizmo Lovers Blog] EchoStar Signs tru2way Host Device License Agreement With CableLabs: EchoStar Monday announced that they’ve signed a tru2way Host Device License Agreement with CableLabs, which allows them to implement devices using CableCARD and OCAP/tru2way. This may seem odd at first, since EchoStar is often conflated with DISH Network, but remember that EchoStar and DISH split into separate companies, and EchoStar is pursuing non-satellite markets such as OTA with the DTVPal (ironically being marketed by DISH Network) and cable with devices like the SlingModem, from EchoStar subsidiary Sling Media.

[Silicon Republic] Smart to soft launch IPTV service next month: As part of a sneak preview, Murtagh demonstrated voice switch integration on the electronic programme guide of the company’s IPTV service. The service will include programme stagger features such as time shifting that can allow viewers to watch previous days’

 [AssetHouse] IPTV 1.0 vs IPTV 2.0: In other words, in some scenarios, interface or device-level operating system vendors (I mention no names) established a foothold at the consumer end of the stack and hastily cobbled together a software solution that could cope with the publishing and content management and delivery requirements of a total on-demand /

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