China Telecom, the nation’s largest fixed-line operator, has revealed that the number of subscribers using its IIPTV exceeded 940,000 as of May this year, implying that it would soon cross the million mark. IPTV service, the key step in China Telecom’s digital family strategy, has been available to users in major cities such as Shanghai, […]
Hulu, the online web video joint venture between News Corp and NBC Universal, is set to rollout internationally and some local versions may launch before the end of the year. News Corp president Peter Chernin says it hopes to roll out a number of joint venture sites in local markets. “Hulu will eventually be the […]
Many extra features of TiVo will be disabled when it is launched at the end of the month in Australia so that network partners Seven can charge for them via a software update early next year. The A$699 device will be available from July 29th but the home networking features – such as the ability […]
TANDBERG Television announced that Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), Australia’s multicultural and multilingual public broadcaster, has selected the company's IP-based iSIS 8000 head-end architecture for its Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) network. TANDBERG Television is supplying SD and HDTV encoders, dense multiplexing and embedded SFN (Single Frequency Network) adaptation, all based around a core of flexible IP […]
Setanta has agreed a new distribution arrangement with Top Up TV that will provide subscribers with another way to watch Setanta Sports. Both Setanta and Top Up TV believe this new agreement will attract more Freeview customers to Setanta's main channel, Setanta Sports 1, to the commercial benefit of both companies. The deal will see […]
The ITV executive chairman Michael Grade, has suggested it could drop its public service responsibilities and hand responsibility for regional news to a third party such as ITN. Grade reiterated that ITV would “prefer to remain a licensed PSB, if justified economically”, but outlined a possible scenario in which the broadcaster could drop its PSB […]
China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC) has revealed on July 28th a draft standard for terrestrial digital television sets will circulating among related enterprises and municipal broadcasting bureaux. The standard will be non-compulsory and may or may not be promulgated prior to the Olympics. Konka, Changhong, Toshiba, and LG have already produced integrated TV sets […]
The Astra – Eutelsat JV, Solaris Mobile, announced that the company has submitted to the European Commission a comprehensive application in response to the Commission's call for applications for pan-European systems providing mobile satellite services. The Solaris application was submitted as part of a tender process that was initiated and co-ordinated by the European Commission. […]
Reasearcher IMS claims to have roadmapped the way to converged services for IPTV operators. By categorising multi-platform services into functional groups including Time-shifting, Place-shifting, Personalisation, and Socialisation, the report provides numerous examples of what new services may look like on different platforms and regions of the world. “The Millennial generation already expects video, personal communications […]
Qatar Telecom (Qtel) and Nokia Siemens Networks have signed the world's first commercial Mobile TV deployment contract based on DVB-H and OMA BCast Smart Card Profile technology. Nokia Siemens Networks will supply Qtel with the state-of-the-art Digital Video Broadcasting Handheld (DVB-H) solution providing their subscribers enhanced TV viewing experiences on their mobile phones with the […]