IPTVision > SBC Taps Scientific-Atlanta, Motorola for IPTV Initiative

[xchange magazine Site Wide Content Feed] The country’s second-largest local phone company says the set-top boxes being developed will be “tunerless,” which means multiple video streams can send to one device. And because the boxes will use MPEG-4 or VC-1 compression technology, the DVRs should store content twice as efficiently as other distributors’ DVRs, SBC says.

Previous [Previous] Basic Guidelines On Streaming Internet TV Connection »...

Next [Next] IPTV Blog - IPTV Magazine: Providing Set Top Box Features to M...

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

[TVover.net] Montana Telco Selects IPTV Middleware Vendor - TVover.net: Bob Cornwall, IPTV Technical Coordinator at Ronan, echoed Tougas's comment regarding one system for multiple services and added, "Another factor that weighed into our decision process at Ronan was the fact that Innovative Systems has a fully functional head-end located in house, giving them significant testing resources of the software before shipping it to the customer. Unlike voice services, video in a person's home gets quite a workout and having Innovative Systems' employees and families actually using the video service before it gets to us is a big deal."

[~Tech Angel~] ~Tech Angel~: Problems with IPTV: If that'snot enough, companies are encountering legal roadblocks as well. SBCand Verizon want legislation passed that will allow them to signstatewide franchise agreements instead of having to reach agreementswith hundreds of municipalities which is a process that could takeyears. 

[STUDIO ROO MADRID] The Premium Movie Channel Paradigm Could Soon Face ExtinctionThe ...: Also, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV)platforms, offering hundreds of television channels via abroadband internet connection to a TV set-top box, will becoming online this year. One of the major features of theseservices will be advanced VOD technology.

[TVover.net] HDTV and DVRs Transform IPTV Set-top Box Market - TVover.net: Strategy Analytics predicts that annual worldwide sales of IPTV set-top boxes will reach 33.5 million by 2012, by which time the global installed base will be 112 million units. Asia-Pacific will be the dominant market, accounting for 45 per cent of the installed base, followed by Europe (33 percent) and the US (13 percent).

[Web Tec -- Information Blog] What is IPTV?: According to Alcatel, one leading provider, it will also be easier to find favorite programs by using “custom view guides .IPTV is already growing in the international market, with providers in many countries including Japan, Hong Kong, Italy, France, Spain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.

[Network and Telecom Strategies Blog] Tough Decision: The 2nd problem is that Verizon was very short-sighted in deploying FIOS TV, and didn’t plan for enough “cable” channel capacity. Their single optical wavelength that delivers all their TV channels actually uses old-fashioned cable TV technology, and Verizon needs to upgrade all of the equipment in its central offices to make room for more channels. 

[Guardian Unlimited: Technology] Watch high-definition TV via your Xbox 360 -- maybe | Technology ...: So far, it has five phone companies adopting it: AT&T (ie SBC), British Telecom, Deutsche Telecom, C-Com in France, ....

[We Right Resumes | RecruitersBook.com] Hands-on with IPTV on Xbox 360 | Joystiq: As for quality of service, I have been using cable forever (who hasn't) and IPTV completely blows it out of the water. First off, when I was talking to the tech that came out to our house to run the fiber from the street and rewire our whole place up, I was asking him about any number of stuff like outages and stuff (wanna make sure I was getting my monies worth).

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, ,