Indian telcos planning to offer IPTV services want telecom regulator TRAI to fix prices for channels. BSNL, MTNL, Reliance and Bharti, have all urged the telecom regulator to fix channel prices. TRAI chairman Nripendra Misra confirmed: “Several telecom operators providing IPTV services or planning to do so have approached us on this issue. They have […]
Polish incumbent telco TPSA has reported in its Q1 results that it added 9,000 subscribers to its IPTV service during the period to reach a total of 49,000. The company also reached 405,000 Livebox subscribers and a total of 2,079,000 retail broadband subscribers. Total revenues for the period increased 2 per cent year-on-year, while net […]
Sky is to launch a new online electronic programme guide to offer UK viewers what it calls the most comprehensive TV listings service available anywhere online. Sky Guide will enable viewers to browse and search thousands of TV programmes from more than 600 channels up to 7 days in advance; whether they are on a […]
The BBC and ITV have sought legal advice to determine whether the deep-linking that online TV listings site TVguide.co.uk does to their online video streaming is legal or not. TVguide.co.uk, which has some 1 million unique visitors a month doing some 8 million page impressions, offers its users direct access to unbranded content from the […]
Korean telecom firms are to invest around 1.57 trillion won (E9.9bn) on IPTV services this year according to the Broadcasting and Communications Commission (BCC). KT, the country's dominant telephone and broadband Internet service provider, alone plans to spend 1.3 trillion won, and LG Dacom and Hanarotelecom respectively allotted 146.4 billion won and 122.1 billion won […]
Online video portal YouTube has released YouTube Insight, a free software tool allowing users who upload videos to see a breakdown of viewing figures, including chronological and demographic audience trends.
Initial statistics for 2007 on the number of Chinese IPTV subscribers shows that by the end of 2007, Shanghai had 240,000 IPTV subscribers and that after large-scale promotion in January, this figure is now at 300,000 – the highest in the country. As a whole the country now has 1.2 million IPTV subscribers. Currently, over […]
Streaming video and music distributed across the Internet, an IPTV network, or a mobile handset will generate $70 billion in network-derived and content-derived revenue into the US markets over the next six years, according to a study from The Insight Research Corporation. Insight’s market analysis study, “Streaming Media, IPTV, and Broadband Transport: Telecommunications Carriers and […]
Research published by Internet video specialist Simply has revealed that as online video usage goes mainstream, the PC has become the second TV in many homes. Men in particular are using Internet video as a way of indulging their interests and escaping into a 'virtual shed'. Research also revealed that online video viewers are thoroughly […]
Harmonic's Rhozet Carbon Coder video transcoding solution has been selected by Akimbo for automated web-based video transcoding and packaging. Akimbo, a pioneer in Internet-delivered VOD, manages a vast library of mainstream and niche encoded video content acquired through its numerous relationships with content providers. Rhozet Carbon Coder has enabled Akimbo to create a web-based solution […]