Australia’s proposed National Broadband Network will help boost the number of IPTV. A Frost & Sullivan report has predicted 235,000 IPTV subscribers for the country by 2014, while New Zealand is also predicted to have 141,000 IPTV subscribers by 2014 as a result of its own new broadband network. Work is expected to start on […]
Anevia, a specialist in video streaming solutions and service infrastructure, and BNS, Asia’s leading IPTV technology and content solutions provider, have combined their expertise to provide Asian hospitality, broadcast and telecom service providers with high performance TV and video solutions. The Anevia-BNS partnership has already generated interest among IPTV service providers, leading to deployments in […]
Korean mobile TV operators will introduce interactive services in December. The country’s six terrestrial DMB operators will start ‘DMB 2.0’ services and allow customers to access a range of data services such as e-commerce, stock updates, and personal video recording. Despite the services being available shortly, there are no handsets as yet that support the […]
The BBC will consider cutting some of its digital television and radio services after the analogue TV signal is switched off in 2012, its director general, Mark Thompson, has said. Thompson also said that there would be “reductions in some content” including a look at the “current scope of our website”. He promised that, after […]
Virgin Media has unveiled plans to use a new measurement tool in the fight against digital piracy. The firm has revealed it is to use consultancy firm Detica’s CView software as part of the platform for its upcoming music download and streaming service. It is hoped the program will help to measure illegal files-haring activity […]
Playcast, a venture capital-backed company based in the UK and Israel, claims to have developed a system that will allow video games to be played in the home via existing cable TV networks, without the need for any extra hardware. It claims its new system will allow video games to be played live on existing […]
Alcatel-Lucent, Solaris Mobile and towerCast have announced the first satellite broadcast infrastructure to demonstrate the potential services of mobile TV, digital radio and data using digital video broadcasting satellite service to handhelds (DVB-SH) standard to be deployed in Paris and surrounding suburbs. This technology will help lower service provider CAPEX expenses to provide mobile TV […]
Seven Media Group has unveiled its on-demand television content strategy as competitors scramble to deliver new video services to Australians’ TV screens over the Internet. The group, whose Hybrid TV subsidiary owns the licence for the TiVo TV set-top box in Australia and New Zealand, will offer TV series via the broadband-connected TiVo on a […]
IPTV usage is up 150 per cent according to a survey carried out by goetzpartners. In September and October 2009, it conducted a representative survey among Germans aged between 14 to 69 years, asking, in addition to usage intensity, about requirements, ideas and willingness to pay for IPTV. There is a clear indicator that consumers […]
The Government's proposed £6 (E6.5) a year broadband tax will be levied on each phone line rather than each household. Newspaper reports also say that VAT will be added on top of the 50p-a-month tax. The broadband tax was first proposed by the Digital Britain report, but was held back from last week's Digital Economy […]