IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) News

Cyprus - PrimeTel pleased with triple-play take-up
Jul 17, 2007 – Cypriot broadband provider PrimeTel has announced that it has signed up 8,000 residential users of its triple-play services, which include its PrimeTV IPTV service, offering over 100 TV channels, interactive games and video-on-demand library.
News categories: PrimeTel, Cyprus, Digital TV, IPTV, Subscribers

US - Cable Passes Satellite For DVR Popularity
Jul 17, 2007 – Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) installed into cable-served TV households (TVHHs) have recently surpassed the number of those in satellite-served video HHs, according to a new set of projections and estimates released by The Carmel Group.
News categories: Carmel Group, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, USA

BT Vision Launches Live and Catch-Up Sports Service
Jul 16, 2007 – BT (LSE: BT.A) (NYSE: BT) has launched its BT Vision Sport service. This service allows fans to catch-up with more matches in full than any other service and for just £4 a month.
News categories: BT Vision, Digital TV, IPTV, UK

MRG Releases IPTV Middleware Report Identifying Leaders in Global Race
Jul 16, 2007 – Based on deployed subscribers, Thomson, Cascade, Alcatel-Lucent (MiViewTV), UTStarcom and Nokia Siemens Networks (Myrio) ranked in the top five globally. Microsoft Mediaroom (ex-IPTV Edition) ranked last out of fourteen IPTV companies.
News categories: MRG, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware

Amino Technologies - Interim (end-May) Results
Jul 16, 2007 – Amino Technologies plc (stock code: AMO) presented its unaudited consolidated results for the six-month period ended 31 May 2007. Shipments of AmiNET products increased compared to H2 2006 by 11.5% to 240,000 units.
News categories: Amino Technologies, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Set Top Box, UK

Verizon Set-Top RFP Could Be Worth Billions
Jul 13, 2007 – Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) has put out a huge request for proposal (RFP) seeking "next-generation" set-tops and conditional access technologies that could be valued in the multibillion-dollar range.
News categories: Conditional Access, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Set Top Box, USA

STMicroelectronics Passes 400 Million MPEG-Decoder Shipment Milestone
Jul 11, 2007 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has announced that by the end of the first quarter of 2007 it had shipped a cumulative total of more than 400 million MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 decoder chips since entering the market with the world's first MPEG-2 decoder in 1995.
News categories: ATSC 3, Blu-ray, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVD, DVR, HD-DVD, IPTV, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming, Terrestrial

Chinese IPTV targeting a million
Jul 11, 2007 – China's only IPTV service has 400,000 subscribers and is hoping to reach 1 million by the end of 2007.
News categories: China, Digital TV, IPTV, Subscribers

Sistema Announces Financial Results for Three Months Ended March 31, 2007
Jul 10, 2007 – The Stream-TV subscriber base grew by 4% quarter on quarter to 1.66 million subscribers by the end of the quarter, including 1.56 million pay-TV customers, 86,000 Internet and 9,700 telephony subscribers.
News categories: Sistema, Earnings Release, Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Russia, Subscribers