SecureMedia has announced that Bonairean telecom operator Telefonia Bonairiano (Telbo) has launched 'mitv', its new Digital TV over ADSL 2+ network protected by the Encryptonite ONE System. Telbo, Savant Communications and Manycast Consultancy are currently developing a proposition towards the other operators in the Caribbean wanting to offer Digital TV services by expansion of and […]

Telco IPTV subscribers grew to 7.6 million in the third quarter of 2007, according to a Dittberner's report 'Global Broadband Subscriber Survey.' The report states that though the Western Europe still leads the IPTV market, Asia now rivals it in size. A year ago, Western Europe had 68 per cent of the global market. The […]

Microsoft has announced the availability of DVR Anywhere on the Microsoft Mediaroom platform, giving DVR customers the flexibility to watch recorded programmes on any TV in their home. Microsoft Mediaroom’s DVR Anywhere is software-based, so no TV tuners are needed, so playback and multiple recording can take place simultaneously. It also requires that only one […]

Guangdong Telecom says it will invest another RMB5 billion (E0.46bn) to expand IPTV services. Guangdong began to deploy IPTV in the second half of 2004. It later tested the IPTV system of mainstream manufacturers in early 2005 and arranged a bidding for the IPTV programme at the end of 2005, which benefited about 100,000 users. […]

Comtrend Corporation, supplier of powerline equipment for IPTV home distribution, has revealed that it shipped more than 800,000 powerline adapters for IPTV applications during 2007, confirming recent independent analysis that shows strong demand for the technology, as a result of an explosion in subscriber growth. According to the DSL Forum, year-on-year European IPTV subscriber growth […]

Packet Vision – player in targeted, addressable advertising for IPTV – has announced the completion of the world's first targeted TV advertising campaign to a predefined audience. The campaign featuring a Mediacom financial client ran daily on Channel 4 between 16 and 31 October. It was specifically targeted at university students across the UK so […]

Verizon has announced it has now over one million subscribers to its fibre FiOS IPTV service. In Q4 2007, the service gained 226,000 customers, for a year-end total of 943,000. The company is now the tenth largest provider of television services in the US. Launched in September 2005, FiOS TV offers hundreds of digital video […]

China's IPTV market this year is falling short of expectations, both in terms of subscriber growth and equipment shipments, according to iSuppli Corp. Subscribers on the mainland are expected to total only 846,000 by the end of 2007, compared to Chinese IPTV operators’ expectations of 1.3 million. The overall pace and scale of IPTV deployments […]

China Netmedia, a consulting arm of the State Administration of Radio Film and Television (SARFT) has revealed that as of November 31, 2007 the number of cable DTV subscribers in China reached 23.65 million. The figure represents a year-on-year increase of 81.3 per cent and growth of over 200 per cent in the last 4 […]

Telefonia Bonairiano (Telbo), a telco in the Caribbean island of Bonaire, has launched an IPTV service under the name of ‘mitv’, becoming the first telco in the Caribbean to launch IPTV. The service was developed by Telbo along with Savant Communications, a Caribbean-based technology and project management consulting firm, and Manycast Consultancy, a provider of […]