IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) News

Eastern Europe Delivers on its Promise
Jun 26, 2008 – New research from Informa Telecoms & Media has found that the long-held potential of central and eastern European TV markets is now being realized. The region's pay TV sector is expected to more than double to $12 billion by 2013.
News categories: Informa Telecoms & Media, Bulgaria, Cable TV, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Digital TV, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, IPTV, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Market Research, Poland, Romania, Russia, Satellite, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Terrestrial, Turkey, Ukraine

Teleste receives an order from Digicable, India for their Pan India IP-based digital television platform
Jun 26, 2008 – Teleste (Helsinki: TLT1V) has been selected by Digicable Network (India) Pvt Ltd to deliver their new compact IP-based digital television platform. The value of the initial order is 12 million euros.
News categories: Digicable, Teleste, Cable TV, Content Distribution, India, IPTV

ActiveVideo Networks Unveils First Platform To Bring Web 2.0 Content and Interactivity to Television Through Any Internet-Connected Device
Jun 25, 2008 – ActiveVideo Networks™ has announced expanded capabilities designed to simplify and accelerate the availability of Web-based programming and advertising on the television.
News categories: ActiveVideo Networks, Cable TV, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Set Top Box, Streaming

Sigma Media Processors Power Advanced Communications' IPTV Set-top Boxes Across Japan
Jun 25, 2008 – Sigma Designs (NASDAQ:SIGM) and Advanced Communications (Adcom) have announced that Sigma's SMP8654 media processors will be used to power Advanced Communications' IPv6 set-top boxes (STBs) currently being deployed throughout Japan.
News categories: Sigma Designs, Adcom, Digital TV, IPTV, Japan, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Streaming

Lincoln County Telephone System selects Alcatel-Lucent's triple play service delivery architecture for customers in Lincoln County, Nevada and new town of Coyote Springs
Jun 25, 2008 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) has announced that Lincoln County Telephone System (LCTS) will deploy Alcatel-Lucent's Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture (TPSDA), the next- generation blueprint for triple play infrastructure.
News categories: Alcatel-Lucent, Lincoln County Telephone System, Broadband, Content Distribution, Fibre, IPTV, USA

IPTV middleware spending spree expected
Jun 24, 2008 – Communications market research firm Infonetics Research has reported that the combined Internet protocol television (IPTV) and switched digital video (SDV) equipment market increased 12% sequentially to $1.3 billion worldwide in 1Q08.
News categories: Infonetics Research, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware, Set Top Box, Subscribers

ZyXEL Advanced Range of Set-top Boxes Now Integrated with SecureMedia Encryptonite ONE™ System
Jun 24, 2008 – SecureMedia and ZyXEL Communications (TSE: 2391) have announced integration of SecureMedia's Encryptonite ONE™ System conditional access/DRM software solution with ZyXEL advanced range of Set-top boxes for IPTV and Video-on-Demand.
News categories: SecureMedia, ZyXEL, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DRM, IPTV, Set Top Box

Verimatrix Secures TeliaSonera's Leading IPTV Service
Jun 24, 2008 – Verimatrix has announced that TeliaSonera has deployed the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) for IPTV for the tier one telecommunications operator's successful IPTV services in the Nordic region, Estonia and Lithuania.
News categories: Verimatrix, TeliaSonera, Content Protection, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Finland, IPTV, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden

Czech Republic - O2 TV celebrates and rewards
Jun 23, 2008 – The number of Telefónica O2 Czech Republic (Madrid:TEF)(NYSE:TEF) TV customers will soon exceed 100,000.
News categories: Telefónica O2 Czech Republic, Czech Republic, Digital TV, IPTV, Subscribers