DAILY IPTV NEWS: More IPTV and VOD bannanas

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IPTV & Video On Demand Industry & Market News.- Read the lastest IPTV and VOD news updates...

> Arizona-based Rotani announced VideoPuck technology for IPTV, an end-to-end solution for multicast video in the home, which the company claims enables error-free transmission of IPTV video when paired with standard WiFi and HomePlug networking equipment. Release

> Juniper Networks has two new appointments: Steven Rice as Executive VP, Human Resources, and Spencer Greene as VP of Corporate Development. Rice joins Juniper from Hewlett-Packard. Greene, who joined Juniper in 1999 through the acquisition of Layer Five, succeeds George Riedel. Riedel recently left Juniper to join Nortel as its chief strategy officer. Release

> Entone Technologies, a personal video content delivery solutions provider, has appointed Sarah Hackforth as VP Sales & Operations EMEA to increase presence and expand in the region. Release

> The Czech Republic's fixed-line telco, Český Telecom, is forming an IPTV brand with eight television and five radio stations. The telco is conducting limited trials through its 200 employees. Commercial service will be delivered to about 90 percent of its subscriber base and is set to launch in late June. Article

> California-based Interactive Television Networks (ITVN) is launching an IPTV music video network called PULSE offering unlimited video-on-demand (VOD) at $4.95 per month. Release

> China Telecom Shanghai is expanding its core IP network with Juniper Networks' T-series core routing platforms to support advanced IP services such as IPTV. Meanwhile, New Zealand's broadband provider Orcan has deployed Juniper Networks E- and M-series platforms to introduce multi-media broadband services such as VoIP, VoD and IPTV. Releases

> Competition from Verizon's trials of FiOS TV and AT&T's IPTV service 'U-verse' reflect Comcast's falling stock price. This has induced fear in the cable company with its executives commenting: "AT&T is spending years and billions of dollars to imitate a network that Comcast has already built. We've seen nothing ... that we can't exceed." Article

> SupportSoft enables Belgacom's 800,000+ broadband subscribers to self-install an IPTV connection with its SmartAccess solution. Release

> Narrowstep, an ITV company, has received $7.4 million in equity financing to execute its business plan and drive the next phase of its growth. Granahan McCourt Capital lead the investment along with MicroCapital and Sano Ventures. Release

> View this cool clip to see the experimental multi-input interaction touch screen. Video

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IPTV AND VOD NEWS: Cogni360 to offer IPTV services in Massachusetts towns

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Daily IPTV and VOD Industry News and Updates. - Cogni360 a mid-size Massachusetts teleco is going to offer IPTV services to local Massachusetts towns. They partner top content and hardware providers to put together a local IPTV sales force. As we know Comcast is the strongest TV service provider in that area, and that's why their prices are very high. But, Luis Galarza the CEO and presdent of Cogni360 & Associates said "Our goal is to provide better telecommunication solutions for a better price, and by providing IPTV services we give to the state of Massachusetts and all USA at better and cheaper way to experience their televisions". For more IPTV and VOD news or updates go to: Telecommunicate

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DAILY IPTV NEWS: Regulations, red tape fuel hybrid STB market

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IPTV & Video On Demand Industry & Market News.- ABI Research finds that with government regulations and red tape that limit telcos from providing programming to the public, a new breed of 'hybrid' set-top boxes (STB) will proliferate households. These new STBs will provide a faster time to market for broadcast operators that want to provide interactive video services. Release

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DAILY IPTV NEWS: On-demand entertainment a Hot Market!

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IPTV & Video On Demand Industry & Market News.- A study by Amaru, a provider of broadband media entertainment, on U.S. consumer attitudes towards on-demand entertainment via broadband found that almost three-quarters of Americans would be interested in accessing content on-demand via their mobile devices or computers. Release

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DAILY IPTV NEWS: 52% may switch pay TV service for better price

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IPTV & Video On Demand Industry & Market News.- Jupiter Research finds that 66 percent of current pay TV subscribers are satisfied with their current services, but 52 percent of consumers would switch pay TV service if they could get a better price for the same channel selection. A la carte channel selection option followed, attracting 46 percent of consumers. This is a potential barrier for new entrants in the U.S. TV market (e.g., the telcos) that require huge investments in infrastructure and design services to attract subscribers in a saturated market. An additional threat of cable customers opting for cable phone service instead can further impact the telcos' core business. This leaves no option for the telcos but to match cable's triple-play bundle services.

Although the business case for a la carte channel selection remains uncertain, and media companies are likely to resist such service plans, the research firm states that IPTV services should focus on giving consumers greater choice and control over their television experience, if not true a la carte. The report also found only 6 percent of consumers interested in high definition programming and only 3 percent of consumers attracted to a greater selection of VoD services. The disruptive technologies and changing business models has created a "do-or-die" situation. For more IPTV or VOD news and updates go to: Telecommunicate

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DAILY IPTV NEWS: Qwest plays wait-and-see on IPTV

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IPTV & Video On Demand Industry & Market News.- In a fourth-quarter earnings call last week, Qwest CEO Dick Notebaert indicated that even though his company is interested in IPTV, it would prefer to be a follower in the IPTV industry, rather than take charge like AT&T and Verizon. The carrier has built an FTTH network reaching 2,350 households in new developments in its 14-state territory. But with a CAPEX this year slightly more than the $1.6 billion last year, the operator will base any further fiber extensions on customer demand. Qwest faces increasing competition from cable operators such as Comcast and even some cities in its region such as Portland, OR, which may build their own fiber networks. Qwest broke even for the first time since its 2000 merger with U S West.

Qwest's fourth-quarter revenue increased by 1.3 percent to $3.48 billion and totaled $13.9 billion for 2005, up from $13.8 billion in 2004. Qwest increased its spending in the fourth quarter to $503 million, up 35 percent from $372 million during the same period in 2004. The company now reaches 77 percent of its footprint with DSL services that run off existing copper lines between 3 and 5 Mbps. Qwest serves nearly 70,000 customers with fiber, copper and coax TV options. Qwest offers direct broadcast satellite service with partner DirecTV with 128,000 new customers in the fourth quarter, a 31 percent rise compared to the third quarter. For more IPTV or VOD news and updates go to: Telecommunicate

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DAILY IPTV NEWS: Analyst: Independent content providers to leverage IPTV

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IPTV & Video On Demand Industry & Market News.- Producers from Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. at the recent Berlin Film Festival agree that the future of IPTV is about new "disruptive" business models dealing with telcos and various content aggregators. A majority of new entrants still do not understand "the way content happens," and the importance of "windowing" for the film and TV value chain. Ovum's Aleksandra Bosnjak found that emerging independent filmmakers will accept IPTV as a new content delivery method for financing, as they are more concerned with getting their story across and reaching wide audiences beyond domestic markets than worrying about distribution issues. However, seasoned producers and buyers derive a bulk of their revenues from DVD rentals and sales, rather than box office, and view IPTV as a pure DRM issue. They contend that studios will continue to dominate, playing hard to get. For more IPTV or VOD news and updates go to: Telecommunicate

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DAILY IPTV NEWS: Mayor: AT&T deceives town on IPTV deployment

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IPTV & Video On Demand Industry & Market News.- Livermore, CA, Mayor Marshall Kamena terms AT&T's installation of Project Lightspeed cabinets and equipment in the city as "a rather deceiving incident" with AT&T being issued a permit under "false pretense." In early December last year, SBC applied for a number of encroachment permits with no mention of Project Lightspeed. The city thought it to be routine system upgrade work on its regular phone service--until recently. Now that the city has found AT&T installing Project Lightspeed cabinets and making other upgrades to its equipment, the operator's permit has been revoked and all work has been stopped. AT&T says it's spending between $4.2 billion and $4.8 billion to upgrade and ready its IPTV networks. It also holds that as a regulated telephone company, it doesn't need to apply for a cable franchise. It's safe to say this is only the beginning of the regulatory battles between the telcos and cable operators over this nascent technology.

In a similar incident in Walnut Creek, SBC began upgrading above-ground copper wires as part of a service upgrade. However, the city required a franchise agreement as the lines would complement Project Lightspeed. AT&T (then SBC) sued Walnut Creek over the disagreement last year. Despite the resistance from Livermore and Walnut Creek, neighboring San Ramon has authorized a draft resolution in support of Project Lightspeed. AT&T plans to ultimately market the service as AT&T U-Verse. For more IPTV or VOD news and updates go to: Telecommunicate

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DAILY IPTV NEWS: Ad blitz planned in IPTV franchise battle

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IPTV & Video On Demand Industry & Market News.- Trade associations USTA and NCTA, representing U.S. telcos and cablecos, respectively, are planning to bring their video-franchising battle to the public via print and TV ads, with part of the message being whether the U.S. Congress should change laws to bypass local franchise authorities with state or federal programs. USTA's ad series, called TV Freedom, will send out a clear message that the nation's telcos are ready to provide video to homes "as soon as Congress updates our telecom laws." While the NCTA's media message, Cable: A Great American Success Story, claims the cable industry has "played by the rules" and questions telcos' attempts to end local cable franchising and replace it with statewide franchises to enter the video business at a quick pace. For more IPTV or VOD news and updates go to: Telecommunicate

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DAILY IPTV NEWS: Current IPTV and VOD spotlights

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IPTV & Video On Demand Industry & Market News.- More updates on the IPTV, VOD, and iTV madness...

> It's been a busy week for IPTV security software developer Latens: a partnership with Simac and a deal with Alands Alcom IPTV service. Release

> Redback launches its second generation of the NetOp Policy Manager, which aims to help ISPs launch IP services like IPTV. Article

> Korea takes a stand on IPTV standards in that country. Article

> IPTV picked as one of Deloitte's top 10 trends for Canada in 2006. Article

> Tut Systems wins $3 million bid to supply its MPEG-4 AVC to Iowa Networks services. (I double-checked and it has no relation to Iowa Public TV.) Release

> AT&T sued over NSA wiretapping. Article

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DAILY IPTV NEWS: Exterity launches corporate IPTV at Reuters HQ

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IPTV & Video On Demand Industry & Market News.- AV network specialist Exterity launched an IPTV system that delivers 60 digital and terrestrial channels to more than 250 displays and an estimated 2,500 desktops and Reuters' headquarters in London. The system replaces a coaxial system that the company found dated, slow to deploy and expensive. The news agency said the IPTV setup will help its personnel stay abreast of national, international and internal news feeds. Exterity's plug-and-play broadcast TV to IP network distribution products, called "TVgateways," support the service. The gateways can handle up to six DVB-T or DVB-S feeds and can stream the program contents of up to six broadcast TV multiplexes over a building network. Exterity claims the corporate IPTV deployment is the largest in the U.K. For more telecom news and updates go to: Telecommunicate

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IPTV NEWS: Telcos lobby Senate to change video franchising law

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IPTV & Video On Demand Industry & Market News.- Verizon's CEO Ivan Seidenberg and AT&T's CEO Ed Whitacre lobbied the Senate yesterday, asking Congress to change national video-franchising rules. These are the same regulations that telcos say have stymied or preempted many IPTV deployments in the U.S. The franchise rules require cable companies and IPTV service providers to negotiate with local governments to get permission to deploy their services. Cable has been coping with them since the start, but telcos say it would take years for them to break in--not to mention lots of cash. For landscaping local community parks.

Seidenberg and Whitacre's pitch is yet another affirmation of the telcos' commitment to deploying IPTV services. It also shows just how frustrated they are with the decades-old law which makes little mention of the Internet, let alone a technology like IPTV.

Verizon and AT&T brought out the big guns yesterday after talks of rewriting the Telecom Act of '96 died down. Many consider the sprawling Telecom Act the most lobbied bill that ever hit the Senate floor, while former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan called it one of the most important drivers of the economy in the late '90s. With prospects of the Herculean task being taken up again decidedly unlikely, telcos better hope the Senate answers their direct call. I think they will. For more telecom news and updates go to: Telecommunicate

Note: P.S. Does the new AT&T's ad on TV with "..Congress can act as a Catalyst.." ring a Bell?

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IPTV NEWS: Alcatel, EDB to nurture IPTV resources

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IPTV & Video On Demand Industry & Market News.- According to Alcatel's fixed solutions president, Monika Maurer, about 30 percent of Asian telecom operators are aggressively rolling out IPTV. Seventy-two million IPTV subscribers by 2010 around the world. Alcatel and Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) set up a competency center to develop IPTV skills. For more telecom news and updates go to: Telecommunicate

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IPTV NEWS: IPTV's impact on Cable, Satellite TV vendors

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IPTV & Video On Demand Industry & Market News.- Though IPTV is still in its infancy and availability in U.S. is limited, 56 percent of all 1,000 plus adults surveyed by Harris Interactive have heard of Internet television. Forty-two percent of those surveyed expressed interest in IPTV since it would be less costly than cable or satellite.

The survey results suggest that the adoption of IPTV could threaten cable and satellite services. Seventeen percent of the respondents said they would cancel their existing TV service for IPTV; 67 percent said they would keep their existing cable or satellite service and give IPTV a trial run; only 7 percent said they would add IPTV to their existing service, and the remaining 10 percent did not have cable or satellite TV but said they would adopt IPTV. The survey also shows that 33 percent of the respondents were most comfortable with cable companies like CableVision and Comcast to deliver IPTV services. For more telecom news and updates go to: Telecommunicate

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IPTV NEWS: Industry Insights on IPTV Market

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• IPTV & Video On Demand Industry & Market News.- Participants at Network Ventures 2006, a Dow Jones VentureWire event held February 8 and 9 in San Jose, CA shared a few insights on IPTV:
  
• Potential market: Every broadband and mobile subscriber worldwide.
  
• Market situation: Cable providers are closer to achieving IPTV than telephone companies, putting telcos under enormous pressure to rollout and keep their customers from being poached by cable, particularly once VoIP is available on a wide scale.
  
• IPTV's value proposition: By combining search capabilities with digital video recording, video on demand, channel guides, navigational tools, users can create fully customized programming. Marketers will be able to use search data to target marketing.
  
• Advertising opportunity: Convergence will provide a potential for creating a single, fully searchable ecosystem of information about consumers' interests, needs and habits. It will be a completely new way for advertising and will present a huge marketing opportunity.
  
• Forecast: By 2006 end, 1.2 million people in the U.S. will subscribe to IPTV. Within three years, 54 million people worldwide will have IPTV, 13 million of them in North America; and by 2015, it will be ubiquitous.
  
• Barriers to successful wide deployment of IPTV: High-definition video requires far more bandwidth than voice or data to carry multiple video streams without quality issues which current networks lack.

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IPTV NEWS: A ton of apples in the IPTV market

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IPTV & Video On Demand Industry & Market News.- A lot more broadband TV news that should know about...

> Does the acquisition of Internet-attached consumer device manufacturers--Kiss and Scientific Atlanta--make a good new market for Cisco? Does that add up financially? Article

> Dialing quality on the way to IPTV. Article

> In Spain, Jazztel Prepares IPTV Launch against rival Telefonica. Article

> Korea Telecom (KT) to introduce price plans for IPTV service as light and premium, along with Wi-Bro And HSDPA. Article

> Following deals with National Geographic Channel, HIT Entertainment and Nelvana, BT adds another content deal with Endemol for IPTV package. Article

> Applications drive global network test, complexities of large networks dictate new strategy. Article

> Unified license favors Indian telecom sector. Article

> GlobeVISION's IPTV for Asian-Americans in North America. Release

> Matrix and Amoi release IPTVs. Release (MatrixStream), Release (Amoi)

> Varsity Media Group to provide IPTV over Optical Entertainment Network's (OEN) FTTX network in 1.6 million households in Houston, TX. Article

> Janice Lee: The woman who helped build Hong Kong based PCCW's NOW Broadband for IPTV. Article

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IPTV NEWS: China Telecom beefs up ADSL network for IPTV

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IPTV & Video On Demand Industry & Market News.- China Telecom has contracted UTStarcom to deploy its end-to-end IPTV solution, RollingStream, in Fuzhou and Quanzhou cities of Fujian Province in southern China. UTStarcom finds this an exciting opportunity as less than 5 percent of the population in each city currently has access to broadband services. The operator is targeting 50,000 and 80,000 users in Fuzhou and Quanzhou by the end of 2006. Meanwhile, the operator is also upgrading its ADSL network for the nationwide promotion of IPTV services this year. Huawei and ZTE will each supply one million lines, while Alcatel Shanghai Bell will supply 800,000 lines. For more telecom news and updates go to: Telecommunicate

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IPTV NEWS: FCC believes cable a la carte saves money

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IPTV & Video On Demand Industry & Market News.- Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) recent study on cable TV pricing concluded that cable TV subscribers would save from 3 percent to 13 percent on their cable bills in a pick-and-choose pricing system. This is in contrast to their 2004 finding that consumers wouldn't benefit, based on faulty data the agency obtained from the cable industry. The "a la carte" system will replace the bundled services offered by the cable industry. The new system also promises to give more parental control over the amount of violent and racy programming that children are exposed to on TV by customizing packages.

The National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) does not find it appropriate that Washington would mandate how the industry runs its business. Industry analysts cite First Amendment concerns, saying that diversity voices could be lost if smaller niche networks catering to minorities are forced out of business. Consumers Union forsees a whole new debate on the benefits of letting consumers pick their own channels on cable TV. Telcos have started lobbying eliminating video franchising to speed up their time-to-marketing IPTV services against the cable companies. With the a la carte system, cablecos wide distribution could ebb out. For more telecom news and updates go to: Telecommunicate


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IPTV & VOD NEWS: Some extra IPTV notes...

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IPTV & Video On Demand Industry & Market News.-

> Alcatel expects revenue to continue to grow, with IPTV driving wireline revenues. Article

> Analysts are scratching their heads over Cisco's move to invest in MovieBeam, a VOD service that Disney spun off last month. Blog

> Tension in Korea growing over IPTV deployments as broadcasters and IT regulators clash. Article

> Amino strengthens deal for STBs with Guest-Tek Interactive Entertainment in hotels worldwide. Article

> New pixelated glasses will give "supervision" wearers, doubling 20/20. A new Defense department grant of $3.5 million is helping the cause. Article

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IPTV & VOD NEWS: Nortel, Huawei form JV for ultra broadband products

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IPTV & Video On Demand Industry & Market News.- Nortel and Huawei are linking up for a joint venture that aims to develop ultra broadband products and resell Huawei's existing product portfolio. The JV will equip service providers with products that deliver voice, video, data and wireless services over a common IP platform that supports copper, fiber and fixed wireless networks. It's more or less an IMS offering. The JV will be based in Ottawa and majority owned by Nortel. For more telecom news and updates go to: Telecommunicate

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IPTV & VOD NEWS: Tut Systems inks deal with Siemens

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IPTV & Video On Demand Industry & Market News.- Siemens named Tut Systems an authorized reseller of its SURPASS Home Entertainment middleware, which is part of the company's IPTV solution. Tut will act as an enabler for Siemens' clients and help them expedite IPTV deployments while ensuring the solution is interoperable with Tut's own Astria content processors. Siemens boasts IPTV rollouts around the world with contracts covering more than 38 million broadband lines. For more telecom news and updates go to: Telecommunicate

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IPTV & VOD NEWS: Tandberg to acquire SkyStream for $80M

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IPTV & Video On Demand Industry & Market News.- Tandberg Television, the digital television broadcast system maker, has agreed to acquire IPTV delivery products developer SkyStream Networks for a cool $80 million. Privately held SkyStream was founded in 1996, enjoyed seven sequential years of revenue growth and just recently attained profitability in the fourth quarter of last year. In 2005 its revenue was $30.7 million, up 43 percent from the year before, with a gross margin of 65 percent. Tandberg's position as a force in the IPTV, cable, satellite and on-demand markets will be further solidified by the acquisition. SkyStream claims more than 300 clients worldwide and is a leader in the IP content delivery business, particularly for MPEG-4 encoding and transcoding. For more telecom news and updates go to: Telecommunicate

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IPTV & VOD NEWS: Dramatic change for future of TV

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IPTV & Video On Demand Industry & Market News.- A recent study from the IBM Institute for Business Value, called the "Future of Television 2012," found disrupting trends such as DVRs, shifting ad revenues and new content channels will change the way we watch TV. Each of the trends is a result of IPTV. Here are a few:

• The increasing prevalence of time-shifted programs and skipped TV ads: Nearly 73 percent of respondents said that DVRs would become part of mainstream households within two years.
  
• VOD rentals and subscriptions will be the next-gen revenue streams.
  
• Content owners will stake out greater market share (read Google and Yahoo!).

Network executives predict telescoping to check out will be the "next big thing" (remote control enabled pizza delivery). IPTV telecom executives put their stake on the interactive programming guide (IPG), while cable MSO and satellite executives are divided between the two. For more telecom news and updates go to: Telecommunicate

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IPTV & VOD NEWS: Kasenna raises $11M in venture capital for IPTV and VOD

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IPTV & Video On Demand Industry & Market News.- Mountain View, CA-based Kasenna closed an $11 million round of venture capital financing led by Intel Capital. Return backers contributed as well. The VOD and IPTV distribution company plans to use the cash to accelerate growth in the U.S. and international IPTV and cable markets. Kasenna says it "will continue to lead the rapid expansion of video over IP with open standards-based, high-performance turn-key solutions that enable service providers to quickly, easily and profitably deploy, scale, and manage emerging, revenue-generating IPTV entertainment services." For more telecom news and updates go to: Telecommunicate

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IPTV & VOD NEWS: Cisco: 3-5 years before IPTV transition

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IPTV & Video On Demand Industry & Market News.- This week, Cisco Systems offered its thoughts to BusinessWeek on IPTV and asserted the technology entering the mainstream is not a matter of "if" but "when." Cisco also offered some not-so-insightful remarks on its much talked about acquisition of Scientific-Atlanta last year, but said the move was a step toward offering a complete end-to-end IPTV solution. Here are some more of Cisco's IPTV thoughts:

• IPTV will bring more user generated content, more ad-hoc video and more customization of professional content (camera angle choices, etc.).
  
• IPTV will remain wired, wireless will always be slower than wired.
  
• The transition to IPTV will take three to five years.
  
• Japan, Korea and Italy will drive IPTV adoption, not the U.S.
  
• Alcatel is Cisco's biggest rival in the IPTV space.

For more telecom news and updates go to: Telecommunicate

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DAILY IPTV NEWS: Espial, Amino team up for STB deal with Allin

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IPTV Industry & Market News.- Espial and Amino have joined forces to provide an "innovative" set-top box solution for Allin Interactive, which boasts many clients in the cruise ship industry. Espial's middleware EVO solution will run atop the underlying Amino IntAct IPTV platform. Allin says the AmiNET110H STB with Espial's software will make it easier to develop and rapidly deploy products for its cruise ship clientèle. Allin's $340 million in interactive TV revenue last year came from deployments for The Mayo Clinic, Royal Caribbean International, Costa Crociere, Celebrity Cruises and Carnival Cruise Line.

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DAILY IPTV NEWS: Verizon fights to allay Wall St. fears about FTTH

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IPTV Industry & Market News.- Another weekly update on Verizon's PR efforts to rekindle Wall Street's confidence in its FiOS IPTV service and its fiber to the home project: CEO Ivan Seidenberg talks to The Washington Post. The cost of FTTH fell by about 30 percent last year and should fall an additional 15 percent to 20 percent this year. "When it's all said and done, the growth opportunity here will be far greater than anybody is accepting at this point," Seidenberg explained. Unfortunately, he qualified that statement with visions of dwellers of fiber-equipped homes consulting their doctors via video link, telecommuting in large enough numbers to reduce global warming and other services not yet dreamed up.

Maybe giving the hype cycle a jump start sells stock, but it's not the only way. Fiber will pay for itself in the years ahead, Verizon just needs to hope its estimates of falling costs will prove true and, with any luck, conservative.

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DAILY IPTV NEWS: Sling swings $46.6M in VC; Is it legal?

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IPTV Industry & Market News.- Is it IPTV? Well, whatever the Slingbox is, Liberty Group, EchoStar and Goldman Sachs have put their seal of approval on it in the form of $46.6 million in venture capital. For the uninitiated, Sling Media has a product called the Slingbox that transmits cable and satellite TV programming from a subscriber's home through the Internet, making it available to the subscriber on a laptop, mobile phone or other portable device while they are away from the living room. Now that Sling has a multimillion-dollar spotlight, analysts are beginning to question its legality.

Since Sling doesn't own the rights to any of the content it slings, is it legal? Because the technology maintains the one-to-one relationship between the subscriber and the TV set (only one person can control the TV whether by laptop on the other side of the world or from the couch), the Slingbox is, in effect, a long-distance remote control. So Sling seems safe, but other forms of place-shifting may equate to stealing TV services by franchise, and that could lead to some interesting lawsuits.

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DAILY IPTV NEWS: Cable MSOs afraid of IPTV, fear Google even more

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IPTV Industry & Market News.- Cable industry leaders aired their grievances at the recent Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers' Emerging Technologies conference (or the SCTE ET, for short). Much of the talk reportedly rehashed ongoing concerns of telcos winning the triple-play war by using IPTV to lure existing cable customers away. However, many speakers argued that telcos are no longer their biggest threat--it's now video over IP enablers Google, Yahoo!, AOL and Apple. The good people behind the SCTE ET even treated attendees to a "chilling" and "humorous" video that depicted Google taking over the entire media business in the years ahead.

Cable MSOs are used to competing with the likes of Dish Network, DirecTV, and EchoStar, but the SCTE ET saw the cable industry's first public displays of openly "fretting" about new lines of competition. In fact, the writer of the Cable Digital News article linked to below seems to have gone out of his way for fear-mongering word choices, among them: "worry," "fret," "concern," "threaten," "battle," "hurt," and, yes, even "kill" is in there. The story ends with some comfort: "We're definitely not toast."

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DAILY IPTV NEWS: Akimbo the first IP Television Service is here!

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IPTV Industry & Market News.- In the coming years as analog TV is phased-out in favor of all Digital TV, Internet Protocol Television-IPTV will become major competition for cable, Satellite and broadcast TV. Beacuse with IP television you'll get 7,000 channels, that's more than cable and satellite combine... More than 1,000 music channels, and regular channels like Discovery Channel, and others.

Akimbo Systems is one of the first to offer an IPTV based service, sending on-demand video programs over broadband Internet connections. The overall impression is that while Akimbo is innovative, the choice of programs to watch is limited. They will need time to make deals for more quality content to offer subscribers, but with 7,000 channels I don't think we need to way for them to add more. That said, Akimbo is well worth a look and could be a nice addition to your digital entertainment set-up. IPTV is also well under way by Microsoft, SBC Communications (watch the Flash presentation), and Verizon in the U.S. market. Butt, most of this big guys will not offer any IPTV service maybe untill 2007 or later... And for sure their prices will be a little higher than what Akimbo is charging right now. For more information about their IPTV services go to: www.Akimbo.co.nr

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DAILY IPTV NEWS: IPTV service providers and their quest for content deals

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IPTV Industry & Market News.- “They are all knocking on our door wanting all our content for free, and it’s so difficult when they don’t understand the costs involved and how this industry operates”. The reason I started Digital TX Ltd was due to hearing this in conversation more times than I care to remember. Time and time again I’ve heard movie studios, broadcasters, TV production companies, record labels and games publishers express to me their deep concern that the enthusiasm shown by ISPs to offer premium content is not tempered by any consideration or understanding for the processes, risks and costs involved in the acquisition of rights to their intellectual property.

When you have the same conversation with ISPs, the talk is of a highly competitive market where loss leading products are the norm and margins are forever falling. The landscape never seems to stabilise for a minute, with both regulatory and market forces changing faster than the rate of the technology that is being deployed There is frustration and bewilderment at how time-consuming licensing negotiations are with content owners, indignation at apparent arrogance and pre-paid sales guarantees, and even the most innocent of confusion as to why an industry that could seemingly prosper so effectively from technology seems to regard it with such fear and contempt.

Both industries are stepping out into a brave new world and taking commercial risks based on excitement over an as yet unproven technology. ISPs want to deploy ‘triple play’ services that include IPTV entertainment, and content owners are realising an entire new audience has emerged that they can licence the rights to their intellectual property to. Both also suffer the nagging issue of chronic piracy, but in differing ways. Ironically, they are the answers to each others’ problems. My company exists to help them understand each other and to help them build a vision of a very exciting future ahead.

The old cliché is that content is king. Now the structural issues of IPTV are reaching an initial degree of quasi-maturity (in the sense that working deployments are in place around the world and operating effectively), and both management and engineering teams have solved what are the intellectual riddles of putting the equipment into the field, the focus is now on getting hold of the right material that will attract and keep viewers. For those that have been here before, that is an absurd way of going about things as that content takes a very long time to acquire and is the lifeblood of an entertainment business.

The business of agreeing rights over the distribution of content is almost always tedious and long-winded. If you’ve ever been privy to negotiations for channel carriage, record deal signings or sub-licensing, you’ll know that Its about as unsexy as it gets – lawyers talking to other lawyers, defining every last detail of allowances, sub-clauses and limitations, for every single time the content is re-licensed to someone new. Forget cigars, champagne and dancing girls – this is solid paperwork and a crash course in pulling teeth. And it is a big boy’s game – a billion-dollar industry that everyone wants a piece of, which means you better have some serious chips to get a seat at the table. Read the whole article...

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IPTV EVENTS: IPTV and Beyond – Apr 18-20, San Diego, CA

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IPTV Industry & Market Events.- The future of broadcast technology is here - do not be the only one to miss the IPTV revolution! Learn real-world best practices from those who have deployed IPTV, find out exactly what this means for your organization, and how you too, can profit from this booming industry! http://lists.fiercemarkets.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=69l,hows,1blo,bc49,kc8x,9946,dwt0.

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DAILY IPTV NEWS: Lucent's take on the IMS, IPTV scheme

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IPTV Industry & Market News.- Lucent's Marcus Weldon explains that the best way to address the critical concerns of decreased ARPU, bundled billing and complicated network architecture is to deploy a common services control architecture that blends the capabilities into unique service packages. This seamless multimedia experience is best experienced with an IMS scheme.

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DAILY IPTV NEWS: BT adds more content to IPTV service

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IPTV Industry & Market News.- Following last month's big content deals with BBC Worldwide, Paramount and Warner Music Group, British Telecom inked deals with National Geographic Channel and British children's television giants HIT Entertainment and Nelvana. BT said more content deals are on the way as it prepares for its IPTV service launch later this fall. BT's service will use Microsoft software and an STB from Philips. BT said its service will be deployed nationwide and will not require monthly subscriptions.

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DAILY IPTV NEWS: Today TI unveils PIQUA for IP QoS testing

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IPTV Industry & Market News.- Texas Instruments launched a new system of IP quality management tools called PIQUA. Service providers can use PIQUA to monitor their VoIP, video over IP, IPTV and Internet-based music services. The product is a joint venture between TV and industry partners Motive and Viola Networks. PIQUA aims to empower providers to improve their subscribers' experience, while reducing overall network operating costs.

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DAILY IPTV NEWS: BellSouth IPTV service will available in 2007

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IPTV Industry & Market News.- BellSouth plans to expand its technical IPTV trials to market trials with 1,000 participants by the middle of the year. If all goes well the company expects to launch the service commercially by the end of the year or early 2007. BellSouth recently inked a deal with SES Americom to trial its IP Prime, a satellite-centric IPTV distribution solution that reportedly enables the distribution of hundreds of standard and HD IPTV streams as part of a triple play. BellSouth is testing IP Prime alongside its ADSL2+ platform. The company denies claims it's waiting to see if AT&T will go with Microsoft's IPTV software before it does as well.

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DAILY IPTV NEWS: FT answers back with launch of FTTH in Paris

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IPTV Industry & Market News.- Following last week's call for a city-wide fiber deployment in Paris by the city's mayor, France Telecom says it will launch a field test of fiber-to-the-home to some of its customers in the city and neighboring suburbs. The telco said the offering would provide users with multiple streams of HD IPTV to several television sets. Last week's news from the Parisian mayor was surprising for the city and its extremely competitive broadband network. Following the mayor's FTTH pep rally, President Jacques Chirac endorsed a France de Fibre, and now France Telecom has taken the mic to announce its plans to fiber up the city. It seems FT's move is a separate venture from the mayor's requested muni-fiber deployment.

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DAILY IPTV NEWS: Motorola scoops up Swedish STB maker Kreatel

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IPTV Industry & Market News.- In the shadow of Cisco's surprising $6.9 billion acquisition of set-top box maker Scientific Atlanta late last year, Motorola heightened the tension in the STB market this week with the acquisition of Swedish STB maker Kreatel. Six-year-old Kreatel makes a Linux-based set-top box with open-source technology that extends into the application and middleware layers. This flexibility enables Motorola to use the offering with a broad range of apps, while allowing the STBs to keep up with inevitable changes and network evolution. Kreatel boasts customers like Telefonica in Spain, KPN in the Netherlands and TeliaSonera in Sweden.

Technology integration and the fear of outdated IPTV STBs in a short period of time are two hot-button issues in the industry right now. Motorola's acquisition of Kreatel is one step toward putting those fears to rest. Analysts, however, say the deal is mostly a defensive move on Motorola's part. According to reports from In-Stat, Motorola and Cisco accounted for 90 percent of worldwide STBs shipped during the first half of 2005. The Kreatel acquisition will strengthen Motorola's foothold in Europe, a region with a far richer IPTV market than the U.S.

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