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[CONNECTIONS(tm) News] CONNECTIONS(tm) - The Digital Living Conference & Showcase (JUNE 2 ...: “Currently 37% of U.S. digital cable customers use premium VoD regularly, up from 21% in late 2004,” said Kurt Scherf, vice president, principal analyst, Parks Associates. “The cable companies need to use this type of service to combat challenges from telco/IPTV services, which grew over 110% in subscriptions from 2007 to 2008.”

[IPTV News] IPTV Head-End System: Southampton, UK -– The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) today presented TANDBERG Television, part of the Ericsson Group, with an InfoVision Award during a ceremony at the Broadband World Forum (BBWF) Europe 2007 in Berlin. TANDBERG Television’s iPlex UltraCompression HD and SD IPTV head-end solution was chosen by a prestigious group of judges and won against broad telco competition in the ‘Access Networks Technologies and Services’ category.

[TVover.net] Cable and IPTV VoD Resistant to Economic Trends, Revenues to ...: At the workshop, the Parks Associates analyst team will provide comprehensive insight, analysis, and forecasts of the digital living markets, including consumer research and the best strategies on how to gain and retain customers in a difficult economy.

[News from SeaChange International] SeaChange International - The world leader in VOD, IPTV, Advanced ...: "Our experience with SeaChange has been extremely positive since WFSU/WFSG first moved to a digital platform with our original Broadcast MediaCluster nearly six years ago," said Barry Fitzpatrick, director of engineering, WFSU/WFSG. "The ease by which we could move to high-definition broadcasting coupled with the high degree of reliability that we have become accustomed helped make the decision to select the BML/MCL platform a simple one."

[IPTV News] IPTV Services Demonstration: High-Definition (HD) IPTV – This demonstration will show the quality and professionalism of HD graphics and gaming, using the MPEG-2/4 IPTV AmiNET130 STB. Operators can increase revenue by offering this enhanced viewing experience, which features a greater number of interactive and multicast channels and offers more opportunities for advertising and more Electronic Program Guide (EPG) data.

[Analysys Mason: Insight] Analysys Mason : About us - News - Insight - IPTV World Forum ...: The growing importance of making content more accessible to consumers was underlined by the number of exhibitors at IPTV World Forum from the emerging content recommendation engine market. Using algorithms that analyse data collected from a range of sources, including user profiles and ratings, patterns of content consumption and recommendations from social networks, content recommendation engines aim to create an intelligent user interface with an intimate knowledge of the subscriber.

[News from SeaChange International] SeaChange International - The world leader in VOD, IPTV, Advanced ...: Its powerful open VOD and advertising software and scaleable hardware enable cable and telco operators, as well as broadcasters, to provide new on-demand services and to gain greater efficiencies in advertising and content delivery. With its Emmy Award-winning and patented technology, thousands of SeaChange deployments are helping broadband, broadcast and satellite television companies to streamline operations, expand services and increase revenues. 

[Broadband Presentations] IPTV Lessons From Around The Globe :: Verimatrix: beyond broadcast, cable, telco, mobile networkdistribution silos, leveraging advantages of proven IP technologiesDevice DimensionPortability &transparency withnetwork-centric keymanagement forflexible mix of devicesProtection DimensionMulti-layer security toenable rich businessmodels, copy traceabilityand combat theft ofservice14- Verimatrix, Inc. ©

[InteractiveTV Today [itvt]] Issue 7.77 Part 2a | April 28, 2008 Subscribe: go to www.itvt.com ...: In addition, it says that the service--which is available to around 32 million digital viewers through distribution partnerships with Bright House, Cablevision, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Insight, Mediacom, Time Warner Cable, Verizon and other operators--will now feature an extra hour of content each week, and will ramp up its production of original programming and its acquisition of third-party programming, in order to appeal to a broader base of viewers. New programs set to be offered on the service next month include "Making News: This Just In" (complements TV Guide Network's docu-reality series, "Making News: Texas Style") and an original comedy from the duo, Rhett & Link, that will satirize the shows, "Hannah Montana" and "Lost." "Rebranding our on-demand network will help TV fans find the Hollywood news and behind-the-scenes content they love more easily in their VOD channel line-ups," Dmitri Ponomarev, VP of TV Guide Network On Demand, said in a prepared statement.

[itvt] Amino in IPTV Deals with ZTE, Tripleplay, SmartLabs, Mirifice « itvt: According to SmartLabs, it allows IPTV subscribers to search for Internet video through the IP set-top user interface: when a subscriber selects a video s/he wants to watch, the company says, the SmartBRIDGE gateway requests the corresponding video file from the online content provider, converts it, and streams it to the subscriber’s set-top box. SmartLabs claims that the user experience of searching for and viewing Internet video through the SmartBRIDGE gateway is similar to the experience provided by a standard VOD service.

[InteractiveTV Today [itvt]] [itvt] Presents...The TV of Tomorrow Show 2009: So before many of us took the holiday break, we were able to make an announcement for OEDN.net, the Web site for developers in the interactive TV space, that we had been working with companies like TVWorks, BIAP, Zodiac Interactive and Digeo to get their EBIF User Agent specs coalesced into one place and published on the OEDN site--the thrust therein being that, "Hey, wouldn't it be great to have a one-stop place to go for a developer who's considering developing interactive TV in either the cable or the telco space--to go to, to see the nuances between how this spec is interpreted?" The spec being a CableLabs EBIF spec, each company has a little different twist on it with their particular user agent.

[Alan Quayle Weblog] Open Access Service Examples - Alan Quayle Weblog: There are no new updates, but the Operator is advertising a 'one free premium VoD movie' voucher, which she selects.This use case shows the wide range of service capabilities an operator could expose such as content, customer profile, single sign-on, location, preferences, presence/context, and IPTV. The business model for the operator would be to insert itself into the 16%-20% of online time being spent for social communications;

[itvt] Third Annual TV of Tomorrow Show Set for March 10-11, 2009 in San ...: The TV of Tomorrow Show attracts representatives from all corners of the iTV industry, including senior executives, producers, creators, technologists, and venture capitalists from across the broadcast, studio, operator, Web TV, network/programmer, advertising, and Web 2.0 communities.  Over 20 conference sessions and keynotes will focus on such topics as:

[InteractiveTV Today [itvt]] Issue 7.87 Part 2b June 16, 2008 Subscribe: go to www.itvt.com ...: The companies claim that the combination of the Puma 5 chipsets with Jungo's middleware will support such capabilities as wireless LAN, QoS, VoIP, IP-PBX and UpnP AV Media Server, and will allow operators to offer their subscribers gateways "that are designed for the rapid delivery of advanced broadband services including home entertainment applications, such as high definition IPTV and video-on-demand." "By leveraging TI's Puma 5 family of proven DOCSIS 3.0 products with packet process engine technology, we enabled Jungo to add its unique residential gateway middleware platform on top of Puma 5 to create a high-performance solution to offer our customers and other multi-service operators," Ran Senderovitz, TI's cable business manager, said in a prepared statement. "TI's Puma 5 chipset is designed to empower our customers and partners with the ability to develop differentiated software and hardware to meet the varied market demand for voice, video and data services."

[Cryptome] Digital Rights Psychopathic Killers: Reinventing Advertising: VOD, PVR, Broadband, Games, PODs & Mobile Consortium at Digital Hollywood Day Three Thursday, October 26 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Track I: DTV, Broadband, Set-Top and Interactive Content & Advertising Experience - Enabling ....

[blog maverick] The Great Internet Video Lie « blog maverick: - Having the Internet compete on large-scale std-def video distribution with cable/sat requires a MAJOR overhaul of Internet infrastructure, especially at telco/cable metro/access networks. Having those multicast-enabled and accepting multicast from the public Internet be a huge step in the right direction.

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