IPTV News

Orca Interactive launches Triple Play services in Greece

April, 2007 – ON Telecoms has chosen Orca Interactive’s RiGHTv middleware for its Greek IPTV deployment.

IPTV in Europe: A battle of the brands as subscriber numbers set to double in 2007

April 2, 2007 – Media analysts Screen Digest, have predicted that the European market for IPTV will double in 2007. The research examines the 54 IPTV services across Europe, 19 of which are in operation in the five European markets of the UK, France, Italy, Germany, and Spain.

New IPTV and Video on Demand prospects for Caribbean and South America

March 28, 2007 – 3Vision and Manycast have formed a strategic partnership and will work together on IPTV and Video on Demand projects for Telecom and Media companies in the Caribbean and South America.

Widevine selected for ComX IPTV deployment in Denmark

March 27, 2007 – ComX, one of Denmark’s largest broadband service providers, has selected Widevine Cypher for it’s deployment of IPTV services.

MRG recognises strength in Verimatrix IPTV Content Security

March 21, 2007 – Verimatrix has been recognised for its continued global strength in IPTV Content Protection by MRG’s latest IPTV Market Leader Report.

Industry leaders form the Open IPTV Forum

March 21, 2007 - AT&T, Ericsson, France Telecom, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Siemens Networks, Sony and Telecom Italia have founded an industry consortium that will work to define an interoperable end-to-end specification for delivery of IPTV services, the Open IPTV Forum.

Swisscom intends to acquire Fastweb

March 20, 2007 - Swisscom has submitted a proposal to Fastweb Board of Directors to launch an all-cash friendly public tender offer on 100% of Fastweb. Prior to submitting its proposal, Swisscom, with the consent of the Board of Directors of Fastweb, has performed a confirmatory due diligence exercise on Fastweb.

IPTV World Series Awards winners announced

March, 2007 - The winners of the debut IPTV World Series Awards have been announced by the independent panel of judges, selected from some of the industry’s leading publications.

Fibre To The Home IPTV service launched in Switzerland

March, 2007 – Amino has enabled what claims to be Switzerland’s first Fibre To The Home (FTTH) IPTV service as the operator, Sierre Energie, launched its IPTV service in February.

Makeni chooses Rhozet technology for online media delivery

March, 2007 – Makeni, the strategic media encoding partner of The Press Association, has selected Rhozet Carbon Coder as the engine driving transcoding and delivery of video content.

Nortel and NDS join forces to create new IPTV capabilities

March, 2007 – The European market will see a new set of IPTV services as Nortel and NDS announce collaboration.

Widevine secures IPTV content for Portugal

March 5, 2007 – Widevine has been selected to secure premium Hollywood programming for Portugal’s first IPTV service, Clix SmartTV, offered by telecommunications provider Sonaecom.

Ericsson presents cash offer to acquire TANDBERG Television

February, 2007 – Ericsson have announced they are to pose a voluntary public cash offer to acquire Tandberg Television.

The IPTV World Series Awards 2007: a showcase for IPTV talent

Shortlisted companies for the IPTV World Series Awards - Click here

The IPTV market is the source of great innovation in terms of Pay TV business models, consumer services, content and go-to-market strategies. It is fuelling technologies that revolutionise television and rapidly move into other digital Pay TV markets - the most obvious being the use of two-way, switched IP networks. And as broadband providers launch and build their video services over the next few years, there will be a constant stream of new challenges, opportunities and solutions.

This maturing market deserves an annual awards event to call its own and now it has one: The IPTV World Series Awards 2007. Our debut awards, hosted at the IPTV World Forum in London in March, will provide a much-needed showcase for the most important technologies and the finest talent in today’s IPTV industry.

The IPTV World Series Awards 2007 is dedicated to IPTV. It will be judged by a panel of independent experts taken from the IPTV sector and is open to any organisation that is active in this marketplace including IPTV service providers and technology vendors. These awards are free to enter.

The awards categories for 2007 are:

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