Telefonica’s IPTV platform Movistar Imagenio continues leading the growth in Spain’s pay-TV market in terms of subscribers, whereas Sogecable-owned DTH platform Digital Plus is losing most. According to the latest report from the Spanish Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT), Movistar Imagenio captured 140,000 new subscribers to 746,000 in the second quarter of the year. It was […]
Hybrid models are best suited to making online video pay, according to panellists at MIPCOM’s ‘Online Video: To Pay Or Not To Pay’ session. According to Spirit Digital Media CEO Peter Cowley, “the hybrid model is fundamental” to the future of online video. Michael Comish CEO of Blinkbox Entertainment, noted that “colossal skill” was needed […]
Vodafone has confirmed the November launch of its IPTV service, first reported here on September 1. Vodafone Internet TV will use a hybrid DTT solution with wi-fi provided by Wyplay. Vodafone joins the other Spanish telcos in shaking up its proposition. Jazztel, pulled out of the IPTV market closing down its pay-TV platform Jazztelia TV, […]
Portugal Telecom has added an interactive and a karaoke channel to its pay-TV service ‘Meo’. The interactive channel, called ‘TVI Secret Story’, enables viewers to watch everything that happens in the house 24/7 via four cameras placed in different rooms. Using the green button, users can select which camera feed they want to see, and […]
South Australia-based Internet service provider Adam Internet has become the third ISP to announce a deal with Internet-delivered TV service FetchTV. The company is about to commence trialling the service with selected customers ahead of plans to offer the service more widely from the beginning of next year. The agreement will enlarge FetchTV’s potential customer […]
The BBC’s director-general Mark Thompson has admitted that widespread uptake of internet TV will probably result in a hike in broadband prices in the UK. He told the RTS that when services such as YouView and Apple TV arrive on the scene, it won’t be long before there is considerable consumer demand for Internet TV. […]
The number of global IPTV subscribers has increased by more than 2.3 million in the second quarter of 2010 to pass 38.5 million by the end of June, according to research by broadband research firm Point Topic. The research states that the growth is in line with broadband growth, so the proportion of the world’s […]
DVB has confirmed that Singapore’s Project NIMS has recommended DVB’s IPTV standards for the country’s future services. Project NIMS (Next Generation Interactive Multimedia, Applications and Services), a joint initiative by the country’s Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) and Media Development Authority (MDA), concluded that DVB’s IPTV standards could be used for the fulfilment of its Common […]
UK-based IPTV services provider Vision IPTV will launch its fully featured Internet TV platform at Mipcom. The platform enables broadcasters to create fully interactive television channels online where viewers can view programmes ahead of schedule and catch up on previous programmes, skipping items, while being guided by a scheduled TV channel. Broadcasters can customise the […]
Qatari telco Qtel is running a pilot project that will make HD channels available for free on its IPTV service ‘Mozaic TV+’. The HD channels will be delivered over the fibre-based network which Qtel has installed in the West Bay area, and the first to be offered will be Al Kass Sports HD, Luxe HD, […]