Interview with Balan Nair, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Liberty Global, Inc.

Balan Nair is responsible for overseeing global network and technology operations for cable operator Liberty Global, which span four continents and over 30mn homes, as well as overseeing global procurement functions.  Mr. Nair will be speaking at the IP Cable conference, to be held at the IPTV World Forum, on Day 1 (March 12th) at 10.40am.

Interview with Kevin Baughan, Director of Technical Strategy for Virgin Media

Kevin is responsible for Technical Strategy across the Virgin Media Group, and is actively involved in understanding the business opportunities created from new technologies and in the overall evolution of Virgin Media's communication and entertainment portfolio.  He will be speaking at the IP Cable conference (part of the IPTV World Forum) taking place in London on 12-13 March, which will cover the impending arrival of 'cable IPTV', expected to introduce a significant new dynamic to this market.   We spoke to him recently to get his thoughts.

Interview with Ericsson’s Eugene Sarmiento and TANDBERG Television America’s Christian Frenza

As this year’s IPTV World Forum Latin America kicks off in Rio de Janeiro this week, ipTV News caught up with Eugene Sarmiento of Ericsson and Christian Frenza of TANDBERG Television Americas (both speaking at the show) to get their thoughts on the region’s IPTV market.  Eugene is Head of Sales Development Content & Media for Ericsson, while Christian is Director of Solutions & New Market Development for TANDBERG Television in the Americas.

North American cable prepares for HDTV, on-demand and bundling battle

John Moulding takes a look at how cable operators in North America are preparing for increased competition by expanding HDTV, VOD, broadband speeds and Internet presence. Network innovations like Switched Digital Video are among the technology enablers.

IPTV World Forum Asia – curtains up: Part Two

The third annual IPTV World Forum Asia will be held on 5-7 December 2007 in the Suntec Centre, Singapore.  It will focus on the region’s fast-growing IPTV markets, including the emerging giants of China and India, as well as capitalise on the recent flurry of activity in Singapore itself.

IPTV World Forum Asia – curtains up: Part One

The third annual IPTV World Forum Asia will be held on 5-7 December 2007 in the Suntec Centre, Singapore.  It will focus on the region’s fast-growing IPTV markets, including the emerging giants of China and India, as well as capitalise on the recent flurry of activity in Singapore itself.

Interview with Dr Abdul Razaque Memon, Director, Solution Marketing, Convergence Business Group, Alcatel-Lucent Asia Pacific

Dr Abdul Razaque Memon has held several senior positions in Sales and Marketing within Alcatel-Lucent before heading up Solution Marketing across the APAC region for the Convergence Business Group.  Alcatel-Lucent’s recent operations in the APAC region include the supply of an end-to-end IPTV solution to Singapore’s largest telecommunications operator, SingTel, and the company is currently involved in 40 different IPTV deployments worldwide with four large deployments in APAC.

The Football Feeding Frenzy, or does pay TV need premium content to survive?

By Jeffrey Soong, CEO of BNS Ltd

It appears that the debate about success of new media platforms, particularly in Asia, has recently been dominated by one topic: premium content, and in particular, the English Premier League.

Pay TV wants the best of the Web

Internet TV and user-generated content threaten to diminish the control Pay TV operators enjoy in the video entertainment market. But as John Moulding reports, the television industry is ready to fight back.

Talking Point: IP-based Television at the crossroads

In about 2002-2003 the availability of high speed broadband networking via ADSL combined with optimised MPEG-2 encoding and the reduction in costs brought about by the move to the single-chip solutions for Set-Top-Boxes (STBs) as pioneered by firms such as Amino with the AmiNET103 and AmiNET110 devices made for a step-change in the history of IP-based television service delivery. The first cross-roads had been reached; it became possible to deliver the required bandwidth at good quality and an affordable cost for the first time. IPTV moved from the lab to the customer; from science project to deployable business venture.