Espial, a specialist in On-Demand TV solutions, have partnered with Conklin-Intracom to upgrade the IPTV system for Oneida Telephone Exchange. Conklin-Intracom addresses the North American IPTV service provider customer base with fs|cdn, an integrated middleware and conditional access solution. Oneida Telephone Exchange is an independent telephone company serving triple play services to the City of […]

RGB Networks, a specialist in network video processing, has confirmed that its Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG) has been deployed by XIT Communications, a rural telecommunications cooperative that serves six counties in Northwest Texas, to transcode the programming it receives in the MPEG-2 format into MPEG-2/H.264 that its network can deliver to subscribers. The VMG is […]

After a strong uptake period, the growth dynamic of IPTV market in the region slowed down. The main restraining factor apart from growing competition on pay TV market was lack of sufficient infrastructure. Therefore, in the future, an important market driver will be investments in high speed broadband technology: fibre-to-the-home/building (FTTH/B) as well as cable […]

Shortly after announcing a series of measures better to protect against copyright infringement, Google has revealed it is to acquire digital media solutions provider Widevine with the intention of  improving access to video content across the web. According to Mario Queiroz, Google’s VP of Product Management, with rapidly improving broadband and wireless speeds, more powerful […]

The number of German TV households using cable TV has dropped from 57.6 per cent in 2005 to 52.7 per cent in 2010, according to a study by German magazine Focus. At the same time, the number of satellite TV households has grown from 41.2 per cent to 45.7 per cent and households using digital […]

Deutsche Telekom has confirmed it will expand the number of HD channel on its IPTV platform Entertain. From December, TNT Film HD, TNT Serie HD, Syfy HD, Sport1+ HD, Planet HD and Classica HD will be accessible to subscribers – with AXN HD to follow in February of next year. All of the German telco’s […]

Telefonica’s IPTV service Movistar Imagenio continues leading the growth in the Spanish pay-TV market with an increase of 18.2 per cent in the number of its subscribers to 773,000 in the third quarter of the year. The company, with a market share of 19 per cent, captured 26,000 new clients in the third quarter, up […]

Accedo Broadband, provider of app stores and applications for IPTV and Connected TV, has revealed that Viasat, the leading free-TV and pay-TV operator in Scandinavia, has selected Accedo to help develop, test and launch its Viasat OnDemand application for the LG NetCast platform. Viasat OnDemand is already available for consumers to watch via the Internet […]