IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) News

Viaccess Provides Advanced Content Protection and Rights Management as Russia's NTV-PLUS Enters the IPTV Market
Mar 16, 2011 – Viaccess (Paris: FTE; NYSE: FTE) has announced that it is providing its scalable and flexible advanced content protection and rights management solution to NTV-PLUS as the satellite provider enters the IPTV market.
News categories: Viaccess, NTV-PLUS, Conditional Access, Content Protection, IPTV, Russia

IPTV Subscriptions Will Near 132 Million by 2015, Pyramid Finds
Mar 16, 2011 – IPTV subscriptions will reach 131.6 million globally by year-end 2015, driven by the introduction of IPTV in emerging markets and the extension of coverage in developed markets to secondary and tertiary cities, according to Pyramid Research.
News categories: Pyramid Research, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Subscribers

Dreampark Chosen for First African Deployment
Mar 16, 2011 – Dreampark has announced that Egyptian Advanced Multimedia Systems (EAMS), an Egyptian provider of IPTV services, have chosen the Dreampark Dreamgallery™ middleware.
News categories: Dreampark, Digital TV, Egypt, IPTV, Middleware

SNL Kagan U.S. Multichannel Subscribers 4th Quarter 2010 Results
Mar 15, 2011 – The U.S. multichannel sector succeeded in reversing two consecutive quarters of video subscriber losses to achieve positive net adds in the fourth-quarter 2010, according to SNL Kagan estimates.
News categories: SNL Kagan, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, USA

Netgem opens up partner programme with its Home Cloud Software Development Kit
Mar 15, 2011 – Netgem (Paris: NTG FP 7537; ETGM) has announced that it has made its Home Cloud software development kit (SDK) available to application developers, Internet service providers and operator partners.
News categories: Netgem, IPTV, Middleware, Video Exchange

Telkom Kenya to offer triple play in the near future
Mar 14, 2011 – Telkom Kenya, under the Orange brand, has integrated its fixed line service with its fibre network to deliver broadband access to residential homes in Kenya. The company is in talks with partners to add video in the near future.
News categories: Telkom Kenya, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Kenya

Amino Jump starts IP&TV World Forum 2011 with new OTT media centre launch
Mar 14, 2011 – Amino (LSE AIM: AMO) will showcase its award-winning OTT and IPTV solutions at IPTV World Forum 2011 - giving a European debut to its Freedom Jump OTT media centre with new 3D capability.
News categories: Amino, IPTV, Set Top Box, Video Exchange

CYMTV signs Hanelcom deal to create IPTV service in Vietnam
Mar 11, 2011 – CYMTV has signed a memorandum of understanding with Vietnam's Hanelcom to jointly build a new IP-based television service for Vietnam. CYMTV and Hanelcom will also co-operate on the future DVB-T2 platform that is set to be launched in 2012.
News categories: CYMTV, Hanelcom, Content Distribution, Digital TV, DVB-T2, IPTV, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, Vietnam

Dutch digital TV market to grow to over 6 million subscribers in 2011
Mar 10, 2011 – The number of digital TV connections in the Netherlands grew by 3.4 percent or 177,200 net additions during the fourth quarter of 2010 to 5.44 million on 31 December, according to Telecompaper's quarterly Dutch Television Subscribers report.
News categories: Telecompaper, Cable TV, IPTV, Market Research, Netherlands, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial