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[Docstoc feed] TCT Case Study: It is this competition that has compelled TCT to become the innovative company they are .Unlike many telcos that have introduced IPTV services, however, TCT was not content with just delivering content from the usual national networks and Hollywood providers.

[IPTV News] Deploying IPTV: Moreover, Lopez notes that, because IPTV can connect devices like PCs as well as televisions, carriers will have to implement copy protection on the set-top devices. She writes, "until content owners believe that telcos can secure their content from illegal use, telcos must add digital rights management security to their set-top boxes and limit distribution to PCs."

[CNET News.com] Broadband's bargain hunt - CNET News: Cable has always been able to offer much higher broadband speeds (so has DSL), they just didn't want to and didn't need to since conmpetition was restricted. Now that DSL is pressing the speed and service issues, cable is starting to respond, but typically, not by reducing prices, but adding speeds to their services, the capability for which was already there!

[Digital TV Group News] DTG :: News :: AT&T attracts 18000 IPTV subscribers: US telco AT&T says it now has around 18,000 subscribers for its U-verse internet protocol television (IPTV) service. Launched last summer in San Antonio, AT&T said it now planned to offer the digital TV, high-speed broadband and telephony triple-play in Los Angeles in coming weeks.

[Joystiq] Time Warner backs down on metered broadband pricing: Not to mention gaming over PSN or Xbox Live. Our need for the programming that the cable companies provide is diminishing, and they don't like it.

[TechNewsWorld] Technology News: Future Tech: Heading for an IPTV Revolution: If that prophecy bears out, then capitalizing on IPTV will be critical to the success of broadband's next big winners. Over 100 rural telcos are already delivering triple play services using IPTV delivery solutions, according to Bonomi, and these operators are gaining market share against cable TV by offering superior tripe play services.

[Thomas Hawk Digital Connection] OpenTV: TiVo, We're Not in Kansas Anymore | Thomas Hawk Digital ...: opentv PVR 2.0 software is the first PVR solution which records interactivity. This supports timeshifting, not just of the video programming but also the interactive features that go with that programming,and if one believes, as our customers do, that interactivity adds value to television, then that feature shouldbe there regardless of whether customers are watching in real time or on a time shifted basis

[Blog Maverick] Broadband Video is overrated too ! « blog maverick: Once someone cracks the DRM, and I’m sure there’s going to be a crack, there hasn’t been a encryption system that is both consumer friendly and uncrackable to this point, their content is going to get pushed out via the internet anyway, and they’ll not be able to hire enough lawyers to stop it. Better to get in front of it and take the revenue from all the folks that don’t want to go to the theater, and also don’t want to mess about with setting up a PC for pirated content.

[Arkansas Blog] Arkansas Blog: Telephone TV: They also have a new technology that will allow them speed of over 100Mbps bi-directionally over the existing copper lines. They have to change out the head end equipment at the local site and everybody will get new modems as a result.

[SCRIPT-ed] Net Neutrality and Consumer Access to Content: Competition between ISPs is present in some metropolitan and suburban networks, but is limited by both geographical scale and feature-price scope.56 Note that where only retail resellers use a broadband line from the incumbent, the degree of price and feature competition is very small given that wholesale prices and bit-rates are set by the incumbent. It is therefore an easy generalisation to claim greater broadband competition in Europe, when for infrastructure (where real investment is made and real innovation in service is possible) this may not be the case either currently or in the near future.57 In any case, it is a very untypical, highly sophisticated and motivated consumer who currently is able to analyze the different bandwidth and throttling options and select to which provider to switch at the end of their contract.

[Broadband Developments - Unified Communications, Virtualization, Security, and Web 2.0] Broadband Developments - Unified Communications, Virtualization ...: Shariff has held leadership positions in product management and marketing at Avaya, driving solutions in self service speech, contact center and communication-enabled business applications supported by next generation SIP/SOA architectures. Shariff has over 20 years experience in enterprise software and telephony with repeated success building product lines in emerging markets supporting next-generation technologies, including product strategy and leadership positions at Quintus and Clarify, and marketing, engineering and operations positions at DSC Communications (Alcatel-Lucent) and Ameritech (SBC, AT&T).

[CNET News.com] Cisco's IP vision becomes reality - CNET News: But this deal with Scientific-Atlanta helps make Cisco a true end-to-end player when it comes to building the next generation of IP networks. Because video is such a demanding application and uses so much bandwidth, carriers will be designing their networks around video requirements.

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