IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) News

Technology Shifting in Real-Time Broadcast MPEG Encoder Market According to In-Stat
Oct 9, 2007 – The real-time broadcast MPEG encoder market is growing as new digital TV providers and TV channels are launched and HD content grows, reports In-Stat. There is also a large shift taking place, as H.264 is replacing MPEG-2 as the compression technology of choice in many of the segments.
News categories: In-Stat, Cable TV, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

Operax and Orca Interactive Integrate Technologies, Bringing QoS to IPTV
Oct 9, 2007 – Operax and Orca Interactive (LSE:ORCA) offer a comprehensive solution allowing operators to manage their service expansion while ensuring Quality of Service (QoS) for advanced video and IPTV services.
News categories: Operax, Orca Interactive, BBWF, Content Distribution, IPTV, Middleware

Sagem Communications has already delivered more than 2 million MPEG4 Set-top boxes
Oct 8, 2007 – Sagem (SAFRAN Group) has announced the accumulated delivery of over 2 million MPEG-4 Set-top boxes and confirms that it will be the first supplier of dual MPEG2 and MPEG4 Freeview STBs dedicated to the reception of BSkyB's proposed Picnic DTTV service.
News categories: Sagem, Digital TV, DVR, France, IPTV, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, UK

Portugal Telecom Selects Ruckus Wireless as the Standard for In-home Wireless Distribution of National IPTV Service
Oct 8, 2007 – Ruckus Wireless has announced that Portugal Telecom (NYSE: PT) has selected and is now offering the Ruckus MediaFlex "Smart Wi-Fi" system as the wireless standard for IPTV distribution to over three million Portuguese households.
News categories: Ruckus Wireless, Portugal Telecom, BBWF, Digital TV, IPTV, Portugal, Smart Home

First IPTV Service in Latin America Goes Wireless in the Home
Oct 8, 2007 – Ruckus Wireless has announced that it has been selected by Telefonica del Sur (TelSur), a leading provider of Internet-based multimedia and communication services in Chile, to supply its MediaFlex™ to support Latin America's first commercial IPTV service.
News categories: Ruckus Wireless, Telefonica del Sur, BBWF, Chile, Digital TV, IPTV, Smart Home

Triple-Play Bundles Work, but Quadruple-Play Packages are not yet Proven, says Analysys
Oct 8, 2007 – Experience demonstrates that triple-play bundles of TV, voice and broadband services have proven themselves as a means of increasing market share. Incumbent operators have used quadruple-play services as a defence against competitors' TV-based triple-play bundles, but without noticeable success.
News categories: Analysys, Australia, Austria, Czech Republic, Digital TV, France, Hong Kong, IPTV, Market Research, Mobile, Sweden, UK, USA

IPTV Deployments More Than Double In a Year as Broadband Continues to Achieve Strong Growth
Oct 8, 2007 – The DSL Forum today announced new broadband and IPTV statistics at the Broadband World Forum Europe in Berlin. The statistics, prepared for the DSL Forum by industry analyst Point Topic, show that the number of people using IPTV services increased by 179 per cent in the 12 months to 30 June 2007.
News categories: Point Topic, DSL Forum, Africa, Asia, BBWF, Broadband, Canada, China, Digital TV, DOCSIS, Europe, Fibre, France, Germany, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latin America, Market Research, Middle-East, North America, Spain, Subscribers, UK, USA

Neuf Cegetel Selects Alcatel-Lucent's GPON Solution for Very High Speed Services
Oct 8, 2007 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris: ALU) (NYSE: ALU) has announced that Neuf Cegetel, France's leading alternative service provider, has selected it to deploy a Gigabit Passive Optical Networking solution (GPON) for very high-speed services.
News categories: Neuf Cegetel, Alcatel-Lucent, BBWF, Broadband, Digital TV, Fibre, France, IPTV

India - Tax breaks for IPTV hardware in Plan likely
Oct 4, 2007 – Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is all set to get a fillip with the Planning Commission agreeing to include its expansion in the 11th Five Year Plan as part of the government's efforts to achieve complete coverage of digital television by 2012.
News categories: Planning Commission, Government of India, Digital TV, India, IPTV, Set Top Box