Total subscribers have increased to 1,687,833 by 34,000 in just 6 months. On July 2nd, Korea's three IPTV operators reported that KT's Qook TV has 724,564 subscribers while LG Dacom's My LGTV and SK Broadband's Broadband&TV have 188,289 and 774,980, respectively. Noticeably, the statistics of June show that although subscribers of the VOD service have […]
Joost the much-hyped OTT video provider is dropping its consumer proposition and reinventing as a "cost-effective" white-label video provider. Along the way it is cutting many staff possibly preparing for a sale as a technology company rather than an entertainment platform. Mike Volpi its high profile CEO is stepping down although will remain as chairman. […]
ITU has given first stage approval to a new standard that enables an IPTV end user to locate and subscribe to content coming from different, independent service providers. The standard will enable a greater deal of choice for end-users and will help service providers offer a more competitive package. Recommendation ITU-T H.770 – Mechanisms for […]
Singapore Telecommunications has announced that its mio TV service has surpassed its 100,000 customer mark. The milestone coincides with the service's second birthday and to celebrate, all new and existing customers will be able given a special selection of ten movies which they can watch on-demand for free. mio TV was launched 20 July 2007 […]
Despite the massive investments necessary in Asia/Pacific’s IPTV market, both in technology and content procurement, telecom operators must invest to gain subscriber market share according to a report from Pyramid Research, the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network. Although Asia/Pacific has the distinction of having the most successful IPTV operators globally, and […]
The online web-based TV services of the four major US TV networks – ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox – together with Hulu, the joint venture between NBC, News Corp and Disney, accounted for a combined 53 per cent of an ad-supported US online TV market that generated $448 million in revenues in 2008. The remaining […]
Tiscali director of television Simon Hunt has backed BT's recent call for broadcasters to pay for the online distribution of their content. “The example I always come back to is the BBC and satellite. The BBC spends a lot of money on Sky so we can watch its programmes at home. It also spends a […]
The Q1 2009 Global Digital Media Index (DMI) from the Strategy Analytics Digital Media Strategies Service shows that along with the worsened economic environment, digital media revenue growth continues to drop since Q1 2008. The Digital Media Index grew only 0.9 per cent in Q1 2009 on a seasonally adjusted annual TTM basis, down from […]
A global report from MRG shows how hybrid IPTV set-top boxes (STBs) are helping IPTV Operators “jump-start” early service deployment or extend the reach of their existing video IP Networks. By merging existing digital video broadcast programming with IPTV services, Operators are finding they can significantly slash CapEx and lead-time costs from typical IPTV deployment […]
The market growth for IPTV is crucially dependent on the economic viability of its business models according to a study by Berlin-based consulting company Goldmedia. It says the construction and operation of an independent IPTV platform is economically viable only for telecom companies with at least 2.5 million broadband customers. Revenues from TV services alone […]