Australian Broadcast Corp (ABC) Managing Director Mark Scott has announced the public beta trial of ABC Playback, a media player, that offers full screen, full length video at no cost beyond fees charged by users’ Internet providers, via the Internet. The ABC will invite 5,000 Australians, with fast Internet connections to participate in the staggered […]

Telecom equipment vendor Anevia and Smart Com, middleware vendor, have launched an IPTV ecosystem compliance that aims to strengthen marketing and sales to European telecom operators and ISP of integrated solutions, featuring Smart Com’s IPTV middleware and Anevia’s live TV and VOD solutions.

From Colin Mann at the IPTV World Forum in London Edgeware, supplier of server systems for on-demand TV, has revealed that triple-play service provider Inuk Networks has selected the Orbit 2x streaming platform to add video on-demand (VOD) functionality to its Freewire IPTV service in the UK, Ireland and Canada. Edgeware’s server solution enables Inuk […]

From Nick Snow at the IPTV World Forum in London Computing and networking giant NEC Corporation is to launch a full-scale IPTV business with what it describes as high-profile NGN (Next Generation Networks) carrier applications. It is looking to providing end-to-end IPTV solutions to network operators on a global scale. The says it company will […]

The total number of IPTV subscribers grew by 117 per cent in 2007 to reach 12.34 million, up from 5.71 million at the end of 2006, according to research by Informa. The biggest world region remains Western Europe, which passed 6.9 million IPTV subscribers in 2007 to account for 57 per cent of the global […]

Amino, IPTV platform supplier, has confirmed that Telefonia Bonairiano (Telbo), the Dutch Caribbean’s telecommunications company, has selected the AmiNET125 multi-codec Set-Top-Box to power "mitv", the first IPTV service in the Caribbean island of Bonaire over ADSL2+ network.

Following the first version of the Service and Platform Requirements document, for both Managed and Open Internet models released in the autumn of 2007. The Open IPTV Forum has released the first Architecture specification. The agreed Architecture specification is publicly available via the Open IPTV Forum home page and the Service and Platform requirements via […]

Tiscali has launched a new PVR (personal video recorder) for its 'Tiscali TV' IPTV service in the UK. The Tiscali+ has a 160 GB hard drive and three TV tuners, allowing users to record two channels while watching a third. The PVR supports high-definition content and is compatible with the BBC's iPlayer, and Channel 4's […]

Edgeware announced that TeliaSonera has deployed the Orbit 2x server system to deliver on-demand TV and video services to its rapidly growing IPTV subscriber base in Sweden. Edgeware says its distributed server architecture enabled TeliaSonera to cost-effectively integrate on-demand capabilities into its existing network, and to deliver new services to its 300,000 subscribers in record […]

In 2007, subscribers to IPTV services worldwide numbered only about 13.5 million, but ABI Research forecasts their ranks to grow to more than 90 million by the end of 2013. “The IPTV market as a whole is poised for strong growth,” says senior analyst Cesar Bachelet, “but clearly it will be stronger in some areas […]