The English Premier League is planning an aggressive campaign to protect its intellectual property rights in an attempt to clamp down on rogue websites that stream football matches for nothing and pub landlords who broadcast foreign feeds, amid fears that they could damage its income from broadcasting rights. Having recently recorded a surge in the […]
China Telecom plans to co-operate with digital TV operator Tiansheng Media in an effort to avoid content shortages previously encountered by the operator during its promotion of IPTV. Song Zheng, CEO of Tiansheng Media, stated that in the future, the company plans to transition away from co-operating with Internet portal sites such as Sina, and […]
Digisoft.tv has been accepted as a member of the Open IPTV Forum, a pan industry organisation with the purpose of producing end to end specifications for IPTV that will take the next generation of IPTV to the mass market
Cisco has released the first phase of results from a new Visual Networking Index (VNI) Pulse Survey designed to assess worldwide consumer video behaviours and attitudes. The study highlights consumer video consumption and attitudes about video in the US, urban China, Germany, and Sweden. Survey respondents answered questions regarding their level of access to media […]
Asian telco Bharti Airtel has debuted its Triple Play Service with the launch of Airtel digital TV interactive – its PTV Service. With this, Airtel delivers the Triple Play Advantage of Telephony, broadband and Entertainment Service to its customers. The Triple Play Service will be initially available to customers in Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida starting […]
AT&T has confirmed a deal with Viacom units MTV and BET Networks for its ‘U-verse’ IPTV service, which covers HD and international channels, the renewal of existing channels, advertising expenditures, and content for upcoming service AT&T CruiseCast, a satellite-based in-car entertainment service planned for later this year. Seven new HD networks will be added to […]
France's antitrust body is set to investigate exclusive content deals made by ISPs for their IPTV services – a move that could force Orange to open up its IPTV channel offering. The body will review whether deals between ISPs and content producers are anti-competitive, according to France's Ministry of Economy, Industry and Employment France has […]
NeuLion, provider of live and on-demand programming over the Internet, has unveiled the IPTV HD TV Box delivering high definition programming in 720p and 1080i to the television. NeuLion’s existing IPTV HD PC browser service provides HD quality programming of live channels, sports, entertainment events and video on demand in up to a 1080i format […]
Babelgum has called for the scrapping of the BBC/C4/ITV JV Kangaroo declaring any other option would breach Competition Commission rules. In its written response to the Commission's suggested remedies to keep the JV legal, Babelgum says only one of the proposed options – banning the project – is realistic. Last month Kangaroo made its compromise […]
Orange and Canal+ have signed a multi-year agreement to allow Orange triple play customers who are not eligible for TV by ADSL to subscribe to Canal+ and/or Canalsat, as well as Foot+ by satellite. In 2009, Orange triple play customers with satellite TV will be able to receive these offers directly on a single ADSL/satellite […]