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 […]

Channel Five is to make its programmes, including Neighbours and Fifth Gear, available for catch-up viewing on BT Vision’s TV service. The channel has struck a deal to launch Demand Five, its on-demand TV service, on BT Vision for programmes that have aired over the past eight days. Users will be able to access most […]

AT&T U-verse TV ranks highest in customer satisfaction among residential television customers in all three US regions where it was ranked, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Residential Television Service Provider Satisfaction Study. In the annual study of TV service, customers cited AT&T's IP services for exceptional performance and reliability, customer service, cost […]

Philip Hunter asks whether User Generated Content is the future of TV or just another outlet for blogging addicts, and suggests that Fixed/Mobile convergence can offer a few lessons

IPTV will have to deliver HD, is it ready? Joe O’Halloran finds out

Alcatel-Lucent is introducing a new advertising delivery solution for IPTV networks that can enhance the TV ad model by enabling service providers to distribute ads to distinct groups of consumers. Alcatel-Lucent’s Targeted and Interactive IPTV Advertising Solution is designed to increase IPTV revenue by making it possible for advertisers to reach the most attractive potential […]

A report from Screen Digest examines the challenges faced by telcos and their IPTV services in 26 countries across Europe. ‘IPTV Business Models: Profit and Loss in the Telco TV Space’ discusses the likely success of their strategies. These strategies are likened to a statement made by the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll’s ‘Through the […]

Worldwide subscriptions to IPTV platforms are on track to reach 19.6 million subscribers in 2008, a 64 percent increase, according to analysts at Gartner.Revenue from worldwide IPTV is forecast to reach $4.5 billion up 93.5 percent from a year earlier, with Western Europe boasting the largest number of IPTV subscribers and North America the largest […]

Orange is rumoured to be building its IPTV service around on-demand films when it eventually launches a home TV service to take on Sky, Virgin, Freeview and BT Vision. Its ';TV in the Home' service is due to launch before the end of he year – some two years behind schedule.Nationwide trials for the TV […]

Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has launched its commercial IPTV broadcasting service following delays caused by a slow rollout of ADSL2+ technology. The IPTV deployment, originally scheduled to be completed in August, is based on UTStarcom's RollingStream platform. SLT's wholly owned subsidiary Visioncom has invested around $1 million in the initial launch of its TV-over-ADSL system, […]