IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) News

Tilgin receives IPTV order from Swedish Urban Networks
Dec 27, 2007 – Tilgin has announced a first commercial order from three Swedish Urban Networks of an IPTV solution for the Swedish open TV networks environment and open base box environment.
News categories: Tilgin, Swedish Urban Network Association, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Set Top Box, Sweden, Terrestrial

Tilgin to deliver 1 millionth unit
Dec 21, 2007 – Tilgin has announced the sale of its one millionth unit as part of a deal with Tele2 Austria, a customer of two years' standing.
News categories: Tilgin, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Set Top Box

Deutsche Telekom claims 100,000 IPTV customers
Dec 21, 2007 – The German incumbent telecom operator Deutsche Telekom has announced it has reached 100,000 customers for its IPTV service T-Home Entertain.
News categories: T-Home, Digital TV, Germany, IPTV, Subscribers

Telefonia Bonairiano Launches IPTV Under the Name of 'MITV' as A First in the Caribbean Region
Dec 20, 2007 – Telefonia Bonairiano has launched IPTV under the name of "mitv" to its residential and business subscribers, becoming the first in the Caribbean and Central America to establish a triple play (video, voice and data) offering.
News categories: Telbo, Broadband, Caribbean, Digital TV, IPTV, Netherlands

China DTV Subs Reach 23.6 mln, IPTV Subs 1.14 mln
Dec 20, 2007 – China Netmedia, a consulting arm of the State Administration of Radio Film and Television (SARFT) has revealed that as of November 31, 2007 the number of cable DTV subscribers in China reached 23.65 mln.
News categories: China Netmedia, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Subscribers

UTStarcom's RollingStream IPTV Solution Continues to Build Momentum With Third Contract Awarded in Asia by Markwell in Taiwan
Dec 20, 2007 – UTStarcom (Nasdaq: UTSI) has announced that it has signed a contract with Markwell Industrial Co., Ltd. to deploy its industry-leading RollingStream™ end-to-end IPTV solution in Taiwan.
News categories: UTStarcom, Markwell Industrial, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Set Top Box, Taiwan

STMicroelectronics Introduces Low-Cost Standard-Definition Set-Top Box Decoder Supporting Leading Security Standards and Multiple Codecs
Dec 20, 2007 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has announced a new low-cost STB decoder chip - the STi5202 - intended for standard-definition TV applications, sharing the same architecture as ST's STi7109 single-chip H.264 high-definition (HD) decoder.
News categories: STMicroelectronics, Cable TV, Digital TV, ICs, IPTV, Japan, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

RingNett to Expand IPTV Service Reach With Envivio MPEG-4 AVC Encoding Solution
Dec 20, 2007 – Envivio has announced that it is providing a Convergence Generation™ video headend to Norwegian ISP RingNett AS to enable the roll out of its Digital-TV IPTV service across its ADSL2+ infrastructure.
News categories: Envivio, RingNett, Broadband, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Norway

Headend Vendors Benefitting From Telco TV Boom
Dec 19, 2007 – The telco TV market is quickly adding new deployments and subscribers, which is boosting headend equipment sales as each deployment requires at least one headend, reports In-Stat.
News categories: In-Stat, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research