IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) News

Another Win For Entone With Hargray Communications Deployment
Mar 18, 2009 – Entone has announced that their family of IPTV customer premise equipment (CPE) with digital video recorder (DVR) capabilities has been chosen by Hargray Communications Group for its IPTV services.
News categories: Entone, Hargray Communications, CPE, DVR, IPTV, Set Top Box, USA

Raft of new IPTV standards set to drive market adoption
Mar 18, 2009 – ITU-T's work on IPTV standards has progressed significantly in recent weeks with a raft of new specifications agreed. The work has moved on from the foundation documents containing high-level architectures and frameworks to more detailed specifications.
News categories: ITU-T, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart Home

Türk Telekom Selects Envivio Encoding Platform for IPTV Service Launch
Mar 17, 2009 – Envivio has announced that its Convergence Series video headend has been selected for Türk Telekom's IPTV project in Turkey. Türk Telekom will use Envivio encoders and NMS to deliver an extensive line-up of SD and HD channels for its IPTV service.
News categories: Envivio, Türk Telekom, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Turkey, Video Exchange

Ericsson achieves world first 0.5Gbps data rate with new VDSL2-based broadband technology
Mar 16, 2009 – Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) has performed the world's first live demonstration of a VDSL2-based technology achieving data transfer rates of more than 0.5Gbps.
News categories: Ericsson, Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV

BSNL Launches IPTV Services with Verimatrix Content Security System
Mar 16, 2009 – Verimatrix has announced that its Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) for IPTV has been deployed to protect IPTV services to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd's (BSNL) customers.
News categories: Verimatrix, BSNL, Content Protection, Digital TV, India, IPTV

Comstar-UTS Selects New NDS Master UI™ to Enrich IPTV in Russia
Mar 16, 2009 – NDS has announced that COMSTAR-United TeleSystems (LSE: CMST) is the first customer to deploy NDS Master UI™, a user interface that transforms the way content and features are presented on screen and enhances the way users interact with them.
News categories: NDS Group, Comstar-UTS, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Russia, Set Top Box, Video Exchange

ANTEL Uruguay goes with Alcatel-Lucent and Microsoft for IPTV
Mar 13, 2009 – The Uruguayan state owned operator Antel has reportedly chosen a platform from Alcatel-Lucent (Paris and NYSE: ALU), with Microsoft Mediaroom middleware, for its IPTV network.
News categories: Microsoft, ANTEL, Alcatel-Lucent, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Uruguay

Consolidated Communications Holdings Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Results
Mar 12, 2009 – Consolidated Communications (Nasdaq: CNSL) has reported results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2008. IPTV subscribers were 16,666, an increase of 4,425, or 36.1% compared to December 31, 2007.
News categories: Consolidated Communications, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA

ASTRA Extends Digital Reach in Germany
Mar 12, 2009 – SES ASTRA (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) has announced that it has confirmed its leading role in digitalisation and increased the number of digital TV homes reached by the ASTRA satellite system in Germany by 1.35 million (13.9 percent) to 11.1 million.
News categories: SES ASTRA, Cable TV, Digital TV, Germany, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial