IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) News

Algeria Telecom Realises Triple Play Ambitions
Feb 16, 2010 – Netgem and Algeria Telecom have announced the launch of SAFIR, the first IPTV service in Algeria. SAFIR is being rolled out over Africa's largest FTTH network and will offer a mix of digital TV services and a choice of 60 IP-delivered TV channels.
News categories: Netgem, Algérie Télécom, Algeria, Digital TV, IPTV, Set Top Box

T-Hrvatski Telekom IPTV subscribers up 74% in 2009
Feb 16, 2010 – T-Hrvatski Telekom (Reuters: THTC.L, HT.ZA; Bloomberg: THTC LI, HTRA CZ) has announced results for the year ended 31 December 2009. By the end of 2009, IPTV customers reached 235,980, an increase of 74.1% from the beginning of the year.
News categories: T-Hrvatski Telekom, Croatia, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Telekom Austria customers get enhanced IPTV
Feb 15, 2010 – Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) will replace the IPTV platform of Telekom Austria (VSE: TKA, OTC US: TKAGY) in order to deliver content services to multiple devices eliminating barriers between the TV set and PCs, and introduce a new user interface.
News categories: Ericsson, Telekom Austria, Austria, Content Distribution, IPTV, Middleware

Ericsson IPTV Remote for media control in the home
Feb 15, 2010 – The Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) IPTV Remote is a device for controlling the TV and other media devices in the home. It also provides a second screen for previewing content, exploring program guides, web browsing and chatting with friends and family.
News categories: Ericsson, IPTV, MWC24, Smart Home

Envivio On Demand Connects IPTV PVRs to Consumer Mobile Devices and PCs
Feb 15, 2010 – Envivio has introduced Envivio On Demand, a new set of solutions that enable operators to turn their subscribers' recorded content into premium on demand assets that can be made available to mobile and PC screens for later viewing, on the go.
News categories: Envivio, Content Distribution, Content Protection, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Middleware, Mobile, MWC24, Placeshifting, Streaming

ETSI Formally Adopts New Release Of GEM/MHP Interactive Standards
Feb 15, 2010 – DVB has announced that ETSI has adopted as standards the new release versions of the MHP 1.2.2 and GEM 1.2.2 specifications. GEM now takes over the role of DVB's primary middleware specification, and MHP becomes a derived specification based on GEM.
News categories: DVB Project, Blu-ray, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVB-MHP, IPTV, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Amino To Provide IPTV Set-top Boxes For Costa Rica
Feb 15, 2010 – Amino Communications (AIM: AMO.L) has won the Costa Rican bidding process to provide set-top boxes (STBs) to support a major IPTV rollout by the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE - Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad).
News categories: Amino, Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, Costa Rica, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Set Top Box

The Universal Set Top Box - a Major Innovation Introduced by Sagemcom and SoftAtHome
Feb 11, 2010 – Sagemcom and SoftAtHome have collaborated to develop a hybrid MPEG-4 HD Set Top Box that combines IPTV, Satellite and Terrestrial delivery and content sharing through DLNA with a removable hard disk drive. The box is being deployed by Orange.
News categories: Sagemcom, SoftAtHome, Digital TV, DVR, France, IPTV, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Terrestrial

Viasat adds 30,000 premium pay-TV subscribers in 4Q09
Feb 11, 2010 – MTG (OMX: MTGA, MTGB) has announced results for the period ended 31 December 2009. For the quarter, Viasat added 21,000 net premium IPTV and satellite (DTH) subscribers in the Nordic region, and 9,000 net DTH subscribers in the Baltics and Ukraine.
News categories: MTG, Baltics, Denmark, DVR, Estonia, Finland, IPTV, Norway, Results, Russia, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Ukraine