Interview with Robert Payne, General Manager and Vice President of Sales, Verimatrix

IPTV news caught up with Robert Payne at this year's IPTV World Forum, part of the IPTV World Series Events, in March to talk about the global IPTV market

Interview with Mark Rooney, Head of IPTV, Pace Micro Technology 

IPTV, Set- top Boxes and the future of the connected home.

Pace Micro Technology is celebrating its 25th Anniversary. From its inception in 1982 as a start-up based in the North of England, focusing on cable modems and software, Pace is now a major player in the global set-top box market. To date Pace has shipped over 27 million set-top boxes worldwide. Amongst other things, Pace has launched DVB satellite and cable services, deployed payTV PVR in Europe and H.264 DVB-S2 set-top boxes, as well as developing IPTV and DTT set-top boxes in the UK.

The South American IPTV Market in Early 2007

By: Gary Schultz, President/Principal Analyst, Multimedia Research Group

Broadband Penetration: The South American Telco TV (or IPTV) markets are tightly interwoven with the broadband build out in that region. Broadband distribution has reached 5% on average in South America, with greatest penetration in countries like Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Columbia and Peru. Currently, the annual penetration of broadband roughly doubles each year, with the majority of that business going to the telcos.

Internet TV may be the icing on Telco IPTV’s cake

By Karl Sin, VP of Sales, BNS Ltd

Rather than being a threat to each other, Telco TV and Internet TV have the potential to be mutually beneficial if their synergies and differences are fully understood

HD: High in Demand or Huge Disappointment?

By Karl Sin, Vice President Sales of BNS Ltd

With a number of recent high profile service announcements, it may appear that HD has finally begun its foray into the region in earnest. But the reality is that far from being a wave, HD seems more like a trickle in Asia so far and there are several reasons for that.

What do people want from Interactive TV?

Chris Averill draws from user focus groups and usability studies to outline what people want from an iPTV service, what they don't want, and how the product in the home affects the programmes currently being made.

PRIME-TIME FOR IP

IP is now a viable mechanism for distributing real-time professional video, helped by MPLS and VLAN technology. As Philip Hunter reports, some commentators are even predicting the unmanaged public Internet could be harnessed soon

TO BE OR NOT TO BE: Cardless

IPTV has provided the legacy-free, Greenfield deployments where smartcard-less CA solutions have the chance to prove themselves. As Philip Hunter reports, there is much debate about the role of software and hardware for two-way networks

All Change for IPTV Set-Tops

Availability of system-on-chip processors, increasingly massive storage and an ever-broader array of peripheral device, software and form factor options mean the IP set-top box market is on the cusp of a generational change. Report by Steve Hawley

BT Has Hopes to Replicate European IPTV Success

By Kathryn Stobs-Stobart

On December 4, BT launched its next generation TV service, BT Vision, taking it into the somewhat unknown territory of IPTV. BT Vision is the first nationwide TV service of its kind to be launched in the UK. IPTV has established itself in France, Spain and Italy and many commentators have said that the launch of this IP-based video service has been long overdue in the UK.