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[IPTV News at IPTV Watch] Global IPTV revenue reaches $423.9m: According to a new report from Infonetics Research - “IPTV (News - Alert) Equipment, Services, Subscribers, and Capex” - global IPTV equipment revenue reached $423.9 million in the first quarter of 2007.

[BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily - Barron's Online] Tech Trader Daily - Barron’s Online : What's Up With Sigma Designs?: This is significant because the existing chip is price at 2.5 x the sigma chip and as such presents no real competition. The same holds true for the BLU-Ray chip announced, although it is a new chip it is based upon the existing chips core, and up to now the existing chip has not posed any competition to Sigma.

[InteractiveTV Today] Issue 7.77 Part 2b | April 28, 2008 Subscribe: go to www.itvt.com ...: The company has rolled out new functionality--first announced at CES--that allows its customers to subscribe to and watch Internet video on their television sets via RSS feeds (note: examples of video content currently available via RSS include the "Sesame Street" Podcast, MTV News's "Daily Headlines," CHTV's "College Humor," and new, independently produced content, such as that offered by DiggNation and Ask a Ninja). It is touting the new functionality as giving consumers "access to niche interest and hobbyist videos covering areas far more specialized than cable and satellite channels." In order to implement the new functionality, TiVo customers need version 2.6 of the company's Desktop Plus software (note: the software was originally developed to enable end-users to convert shows recorded on their TiVo box for viewing on portable devices, such as the iPod and the PlayStation Portable): the software is available for a one-time fee of $24.95 and is offered free of charge to customers who have purchased earlier versions.

[Console Monster] What to Look For From Microsoft - Console Monster News - Your Next ...: As previously mentioned, calls for making the Live service completely free like PSN are growing--but while that would be extremely welcome, you have to think they’ll be rolling out something new in terms of interface and functionality instead. (They wouldn't leave all that money on the table, would they?)

[InteractiveTV Today] Issue 7.32 Part 2 | May 30, 2007 Subscribe: go to www.itvt.com ...: DigiSoft.tv, a Cork, Ireland-based provider of technologies for developing, deploying and managing interactive TV applications, that has hitherto enjoyed a fair amount of success in the Italian market (note: the company is also attempting to penetrate the US market and now operates an office in Louisville, Colorado), has formed a partnership with Tech Mahindra, an Indian company that supplies technologies and services to telcos. The companies say that the partnership will enable telcos to use DigiSoft's flagship DigiHost IPTV platform in conjunction with their existing OSS and BSS backoffice systems, in order to "launch, manage and provision an exciting raft of interactive services layered on top of new TV services to be offered over existing telecoms infrastructure." "Preserving and adding value to existing OSS and BSS systems by enabling new interactive TV services to enhance the attractiveness of new TV servicesbeing launched by telcos is the name of the game," Fintan McKiernan, DigiSoft's SVP of US sales, said in a prepared statement.

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[SIGM - News and Analysis from Seeking Alpha] Sigma Designs: New Competition From Broadcom In IPTV Set-Top Boxes ...: “We continually heard during our discussions [with set-top box companies in China] that the current cost of a media processor was simply too much to meet wide-scale deployments,” he writes. “Many customers and service providers are well aware of the cost related to the IPTV STB and have already been discussing alternatives and price concessions.” He estimates that the Sigma chip runs about $17, and should average $15 in 2007.

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