IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) News

Bouygues Telecom Deploys Verimatrix Content Security for IPTV Service
Jan 6, 2009 – Verimatrix has announced that France's Bouygues Telecom is securing its MPEG-4 live broadcast and on-demand video content, delivered via ASDL to the BBOX home gateway, with the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS®) for IPTV.
News categories: Verimatrix, Bouygues Telecom, CES2025, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Set Top Box

CCID Consulting Provides a Review and Forecast of China's IPTV Market
Jan 5, 2009 – CCID Consulting (Hong Kong: 08235), recently released its article on China's IPTV market. In 2008, with China Telecom's vigorous promotion, China's number of IPTV subscribers grew rapidly, up 100% year-on-year.
News categories: CCID Consulting, China, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Subscribers

Tiscali closes Italian IPTV service
Dec 29, 2008 – Italian ISP Tiscali will suspend its IPTV service Tiscali TV for an undetermined period, starting from 1 January 2009, according to Italian press reports.
News categories: Tiscali, Digital TV, IPTV, Italy

ZyXEL Wins Chunghwa Telecom Powerline Devices Procurement Tender
Dec 25, 2008 – ZyXEL (TSE: 2391) has won the procurement tender for Chunghwa Telecom's (TAIEX: 2412, NYSE: CHT) Digital Home project. CHT will provide ZyXEL powerline network kits that enable users to take advantage of internet connections everywhere at home.
News categories: ZyXEL, Chunghwa Telecom, IPTV, Smart Home, Streaming, Taiwan

Cisco on Motorola's heels in IP set-top-box market
Dec 22, 2008 – The Internet protocol television (IPTV) and switched digital video (SDV) equipment market increased 6% sequentially in 3Q08 to $1.4 billion, reports market research firm Infonetics Research.
News categories: Infonetics Research, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware, Set Top Box, Subscribers

Colombia to auction pay-TV licences
Dec 19, 2008 – Colombia's National Telecommunications Commission (Comisión Nacional de Telecomunicaciones - CNTV) is starting its public auction process for five Pay-TV licenses.
News categories: Comisión Nacional de Telecomunicaciones, Colombia, IPTV, Regulation

Firecomms OptoLock® Built into IPTV Set Top Box Reference Design by STMicroelectronics
Dec 18, 2008 – Firecomms has announced that its OptoLock® interconnect technology has been built into the STMicroelectronics STi7105 reference design for an IPTV set top box. OptoLock enables quick and easy connection of POF in home networks directly to the STB.
News categories: Firecomms, STMicroelectronics, IPTV, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home

Portugal - MEO surpasses 300 thousand customers
Dec 18, 2008 – Portugal Telecom (Lisbon: PTC; NYSE: PT) has announced that Meo, its pay-TV service, has surpassed 300 thousand customers, representing circa 43% of PT's ADSL customers. Net additions in the quarter to date surpassed 89 thousand customers.
News categories: Portugal Telecom, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Portugal, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers

BitBand Introduces Leading-Edge Solid-State Video Server Line Based on Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Hardware
Dec 17, 2008 – BitBand introduces BitBand Vision Ti4™, a solid state flash based video server with highest streaming throughput, designed to provide maximum flexibility and performance to Service Providers deploying IPTV services.
News categories: BitBand, Content Distribution, Hardware, IPTV