Telstra will reportedly be taking on Foxtel, TiVo, and any nascent IPTV plays from the broadcast sector in launching a service that will provide a combination of digital FTA, a full PVR, a range of BigPond (its ISP brand) content services via IP, customised web sites like YouTube and Flickr and open access to high […]

More than 40% of U.S. adults under 35 are already viewing Internet video on the TV at least once per month, according to research firm In-Stat, which predicts that revenue from Web-to-TV streaming services will grow to $2.9 billion in 2013. Within five years, the number of U.S. broadband households viewing Web-to-TV content will grow […]

Korea Digital Media Industry Association has revealed that Korea’s consortium of IPTV firms had signed a $173 million contract with its Peruvian counterpart to establish an education system utilising IPTV technology in Peru. Korea will be paid in minerals, including copper, zinc and molybdenum. In the first phase of the project by 2010, the Korean […]

Richard Li has thrown in the towel on a proposed $2bn buyout of PCCW, his Hong Kong telecommunications company after a protracted legal battle, saying the saga has been "unnecessarily divisive to society". Li and state-owned China Unicom, PCCW's second-largest shareholder, said they would let the controversial HK$4.50 a share offer lapse and pay investors […]

With US households reluctant to cancel home services despite the down economy, growth in cable and IPTV VoD services will remain strong, with revenues exceeding $11 billion by 2013, according to Parks Associates. “Currently 37 per cent of US digital cable customers use premium VoD regularly, up from 21 per cent in late 2004,” said […]

In an effort to reach those broadcasters that haven’t bridged the digital divide, RRSat Global Communications Network announced RRsat Global Internet TV, a new end-to-end TV service developed in partnership with TVU Networks that delivers broadcast video from anywhere in the world via the web. The service is compatible with television screens, PCs and mobile […]

The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) has announced five new standards establishing IPTV's foundational framework – created by ATIS‚ IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF). The completion of these documents signals the conclusion of "Phase 1" of the IIF's three-phased Work Plan. Phase 1 completes the IIF's standardisation of linear television service (i.e. basic television) over […]

MRG has released its 'Global IPTV Market Leaders Report – March 2009', which tracks the top 100 IPTV vendors in 24 regional sub-segments based on the installed base of six video systems products in over 700 IPTV Operations. Continuing growth of subscribers is reflected by increased deployments of IPTV products in Europe, Asia, Rest of […]

Broadband households in Europe and the US consistently rank primetime anytime VOD services as the most valuable service out of all TV 2.0 offerings, according to the Parks Associates report 'Television Services: The Global Outlook'. The international research firm says that primetime anytime services, which allow viewers to watch a show on-demand on their TV […]

Ofcom's most recent quarterly report said Tiscali added no new subs in Q408. It's customer base was virtually flat at 100,000, or 0.3 percent of homes with TVs. That's below the 398,000 rival BT Vision reported for the same period. …………….